Development of the primary mirror segment support assemblies for the Thirty Meter Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ponslet, Eric ^a   Blanco, Dan ^b   Cho, Myung ^b   Mast, Terry ^c   Nelson, Jerry ^c   Ponchione, R J ^a   Sirota, Mark ^d   Stephens, Vince ^a   Stepp, Larry ^d   Tubb, Alan ^a   Williams, Eric C ^a  

^a HYTEC Incorporated   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TMT Project Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Active; FEA; Mirror; Optics; Optimization; Segment; Support; TMT; Warping harness; Whiffletree

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY LOADING; SEGMENT SUPPORT ASSEMBLY (SSA); THERMAL DEFORMATIONS; THIRTY METER TELESCOPE (TMT); WHIFFLETREE;

ABERRATIONS; ASSEMBLY; DIAPHRAGMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; PYROLYSIS; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 33749035565     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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