Design Requirements and Component Down Selection Process for an Aperture Masking Instrument at the Magdalena Ridge Observatory 2.4m Telescope

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May 2009

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #409.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.672

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The design of a new instrument requires careful consideration of all components to ensure that design specifications are met while staying within the prescribed budget. This poster presents the down selection process for the major components of a new instrument for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory 2.4m telescope. This instrument is designed primarily for aperture masking at optical wavelengths, a technique that converts a single aperture into a multi-aperture Michelson stellar interferometer. With minor modification this instrument can also be used for millimag photometry, millisecond photometry and other high speed imaging techniques. This poster includes the design requirements and decision process for three main components; the instrument structural support required to mount the instrument to the Nasmyth focus of the telescope, the optical system necessary to re-image the primary aperture, filter and mask incoming light and then produce the correct image scale on the CCD, and finally, CCD performance required to take high-frame-rate, low-noise images.
This work is supported by LANL-NMT MOU UCDRD funding and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium.

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