Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jun 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984baas...16..787s&link_type=abstract
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 16, p.787
Mathematics
Logic
1
Scientific paper
A monolithic primary mirror greater than ten times ST's diameter, smoothed to diffraction limited accuracy, would present formidable technological challenges and be extremely costly. Lower cost, technologically achievable alternatives for obtaining the same angular resolution would be a thinned aperture or a fringe interferometer. In a thinned aperture system, light from several separated primary mirrors is coherently combined to form an image with high angular resolution. In a fringe interferometer, light from separated telescopes is combined to produce fringes. The requirements of both types of systems on technologies such as optical path compensation, structures, jitter, pointing, and space transport and assembly appear to indicate both types of systems are achievable. The fringe interferometers generally have less stringent requirements than thinned apertures.
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