ORFEUS focal plane instrumentation: The Berkeley spectrometer

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Jun 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988esasp.281b.329h&link_type=abstract

In ESA, Proceedings of the Celebratory Symposium on a Decade of UV Astronomy with the IUE Satellite, Volume 2 p 329-331 (SEE N89

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Iue, Spaceborne Astronomy, Ultraviolet Astronomy, Ultraviolet Spectra, Ultraviolet Spectrometers, Echelette Gratings, Spaceborne Telescopes, Systems Engineering

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A spectrograph for the ORFEUS mission that incorporates four varied line-space, spherically figured diffraction gratings was designed. The ORFEUS, a 1-m normal incidence telescope is equipped with 2 focal plane spectrographs. The Berkeley spectrograph was developed with an optimizing raytracing computer code. Each grating accepts the light from 20 percent of the aperture of the telescope primary mirror and has a unique set of characteristics to cover a sub-bandpass within the 390 to 1200 A spectral range. Two photon-counting detectors incorporating a time delay readout system are used to record the spectra from all four gratings simultaneously. The nominal design achieves a spectral resolution (FWHM) in excess of 5500 at all wavelengths within the bandpass. The resolution is limited primarily by the detector spatial resolution. The 1 sigma astigmatism of this design varies between 13 and 150 micrometer on the same focal surface. An independent, direct imaging system tracks the drift of the target within the spectrometer aperture and allows measurement of the misalignment between the telescope optical axis and that of the external star tracker. The resolution and astigmatism achievable with this design are superior to those of a standard Rowland spectrograph designed with the same constraints.

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