Image defects from surface and alignment errors in grazing incidence telescopes

Details Image defects from surface and alignment errors in grazing incidence telescopes Image defects from surface and alignment errors in grazing incidence telescopes

Jul 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989spie.1160..381s&link_type=abstract

IN: X-ray/EUV optics for astronomy and microscopy; Proceedings of the Meeting, San Diego, CA, Aug. 7-11, 1989 (A90-46006 21-74).

Physics

Optics

Alignment, Grazing Incidence, Image Analysis, Surface Distortion, X Ray Telescopes, Error Analysis, Legendre Functions, Low Frequencies, Mirrors, Translational Motion

Scientific paper

The rigid body motions and low frequency surface errors of grazing incidence Wolter telescopes are studied. The analysis is based on surface error descriptors proposed by Paul Glenn. In his analysis, the alignment and surface errors are expressed in terms of Legendre-Fourier polynomials. Individual terms in the expression correspond to rigid body motions (decenter and tilt) and low spatial frequency surface errors of mirrors. With the help of the Legendre-Fourier polynomials and the geometry of grazing incidence telescopes, exact and approximated first order equations are derived in this paper for the components of the ray intercepts at the image plane. These equations are then used to calculate the sensitivities of Wolter type I and II telescopes for the rigid body motions and surface deformations. The rms spot diameters calculated from this theory and OSAC ray tracing code agree very well. This theory also provides a tool to predict how rigid body motions and surface errors of the mirrors compensate each other.

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