Chopping secondary mirror system for 1.3 M infrared telescope

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Infrared Astronomy, Infrared Telescopes, Mirrors, Modulation, Block Diagrams, Controllers, Power Spectra, Servomotors, Signal To Noise Ratios

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In order to achieve a high speed/high precision/low power consumption IR telescope chopping system which excites no mechanical resonances, in conjunction with a device size smaller than the secondary mirror diameter, a chopping servo has been developed which uses feedforward control with optimized driving torque as well as feedback control guided by robust stability theory. The compactness of the device has been achieved through the use of an Nd-Fe-B magnet motor and the balancing of the mirror against the mass of the electromechanical system. The chopper has a 10-msec transient time, and stability in excess of 1 arcsec, for square-wave chopping with amplitudes of as much as 300 arcsec.

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