Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Jul 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006spie.6267e..95c&link_type=abstract
Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes. Edited by Stepp, Larry M.. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6267, pp. 62672X (2006).
Computer Science
Performance
Scientific paper
The Cornell Caltech Atacama Sub-millimeter Telescope (CCAT) is proposed to have 25m-diameter primary segmented active surface capable of diffraction-limited operation in the wavelength range between 200 microns to 1mm. The active surface design layout is composed of 162 "pie-shaped" segments, each fitted with three actuators that provide piston and tilt/tip control for segment positioning and orientation. We present a performance analysis for five types of segment positioning errors, e.g., piston, tilt/tips, radial and azimuth displacements, and twist errors. From these only the first two, segment piston and tilt/tip errors, are directly controllable by the actuator system. Segment tilt/tip motions may indirectly compensate radial and azimuth segment positioning errors. Residual segment twists introduce quadric phase distribution errors across the face of the segments that cannot be compensated by a simple 3-actuator/segment active surface control system. We have obtained Ruze's coefficients that relate the standard deviation of each segment positioning error type with the overall Strehl ratio of the telescope at 200 microns.
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