Advanced mirror system demonstrator cryogenic test error budget

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Mar 2003

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IR Space Telescopes and Instruments. Edited by John C. Mather . Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4850, pp. 221-229 (2003).

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The successful augmentation of NASA's X-Ray Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to an optical metrology testing facility for the Sub-scale Beryllium Mirror Demonstrator (SBMD) and NGST Mirror Sub-scale Demonstrator (NMSD) programs required significant modifications and enhancements to achieve reliable data. In addition to building and integrating both a helium shroud and a rugged, stable platform to support a wavefront sensor, a custom sensor suite was assembled and integrated to meet the test requirements. The metrology suite consisted of a high-resolution Shack-Hartmann sensor, a point diffraction interferometer, a point spread function camera, and a radius of curvature measuring device. The evolution from the SBMD and NMSD tests to the Advanced Mirror System Demonstrator (AMSD) program is less dramatic in some ways, such as the reutilization of the existing helium shroud and sensor support structure. However, significant modifications were required to meet the AMSD program's more stringent test requirements and conditions resulting in a substantial overhaul of the sensor suite and test plan. This paper will discuss the instrumentation changes made for AMSD, including the interferometer selection and null optics. The error budget for the tests will be presented using modeling and experimental data. We will show how the facility is ready to meet the test requirements.

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