Conceptual Design for a 16-m Segmented UVOIR Space Telescope

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Jan 2009

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #450.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.342

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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ATLAST - the Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope - is one of NASA's 2008 strategic mission concept studies. In this paper, we present an architecture for a 16-m diameter UV-Optical-near IR (UVOIR) telescope that will address fundamental questions in astronomy, inluding the composition of exoplanet atmospheres, galaxy assembly, and the evolution of supermassive black holes. The telescope design uses a segmented primary mirror made of lightweight materials, with deployment from NASA's Ares V heavy launch vehicle. It is anticipated that the instrument suite will include a UV camera and imaging spectrometer, a wide-field optical camera and imaging spectrometer, and an optical coronagraph for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets. Key to the design is a metrology system for controlling the rigid body orientation of the primary mirror segments relative to the secondary mirror and a wavefront sensing and control system to maintain the needed image quality (details in a companion paper). The research described in this paper was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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