Back-propagating the light of field stars to probe telescope mirrors aberrations

F. Soulez; F. Courbin; M. Unser

doi:10.1117/12.2232702

22 July 2016 Back-propagating the light of field stars to probe telescope mirrors aberrations

F. Soulez, F. Courbin, M. Unser

Proceedings Volume 9912, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II; 991277 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232702
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

We propose a wavefront-based method to estimate the PSF over the whole field of view. This method estimate the aberrations of all the mirrors of the telescope using only field stars. In this proof of concept paper, we described the method and present some qualitative results.

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F. Soulez, F. Courbin, and M. Unser "Back-propagating the light of field stars to probe telescope mirrors aberrations", Proc. SPIE 9912, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 991277 (22 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232702

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