Design issues for the SUNRISE Telescope

Hermann Bittner; Elke Schmidt; Klaus-Ruediger Haertel; Clemens Kaiser; Thomas Bluemchen

doi:10.1117/12.474297

3 March 2003 Design issues for the SUNRISE telescope

Hermann Bittner, Elke Schmidt, Klaus-Ruediger Haertel, Clemens Kaiser, Thomas Bluemchen

Proceedings Volume 4857, Airborne Telescope Systems II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474297
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

SUNRISE is a balloon-borne instrument for spectro-polarimetric high-resolution observation of the solar atmosphere. It has a lightweight UV-VIS telescope of Gregory type with an aperture of 1 m, designed to be close to the VIS diffraction limit. The paper will first present the basic prescriptions of the optical design and the achievable performance. The re-quirements for the mechanisms in order to maintain the alignment over the range of environmental conditions will be derived. Secondly, the structural and thermal requirements will be discussed. Here, structural deflections due to gravity and residual thermal imbalances have to be taken into account. Preliminary structural and thermal designs will be out-lined.

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Hermann Bittner, Elke Schmidt, Klaus-Ruediger Haertel, Clemens Kaiser, and Thomas Bluemchen "Design issues for the SUNRISE telescope", Proc. SPIE 4857, Airborne Telescope Systems II, (3 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474297

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