The Pinhole/Occulter Facility

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Apr 1983

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Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Coronagraphs, Occultation, Pinhole Occulter Facility, Pinholes, Solar Physics, Space Shuttle Payloads, X Ray Astronomy, Angular Resolution, Field Of View, Focal Plane Devices, High Resolution, Image Reconstruction, Solar Corona, Solar Wind

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Scientific objectives and requirements are discussed for solar X-ray observations, coronagraph observations, studies of coronal particle acceleration, and cosmic X-ray observations. Improved sensitivity and resolution can be provided for these studies using the pinhole/occulter facility which consists of a self-deployed boom of 50 m length separating an occulter plane from a detector plane. The X-ray detectors and coronagraphic optics mounted on the detector plane are analogous to the focal plane instrumentation of an ordinary telescope except that they use the occulter only for providing a shadow pattern. The occulter plane is passive and has no electrical interface with the rest of the facility.

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