Advanced Segmented Silicon Space Telescope (ASSiST)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4849, Issue , 2002, Pages 103-111

  Dekany, Richard ^a   MacMartin, Douglas ^a   Chanan, Gary ^b   Troy, Mitchell ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremely large telescopes; MEMS actuators; Segmented telescopes; Silicon optics; Space telescopes

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CRYOGENICS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; SILICON WAFERS;

CRYOGENIC MIRROR SEGMENTS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038643490     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460563     Document Type: Conference Paper

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6. Within the relatively large 6 arcmin diameter FoV of ASSiST, such stars are likely to exist with high probability, even near the galactic poles. This is a large motivation for the wide-field modified Schmidt telescope point design we present here.
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