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Title: | Alignment of the optical system of the 9.7-m prototype Schwarzchild-Coulder Telescope | Authors: | Adams, C. Alfaro, R. Ambrosi, G. Ambrosio, M. Aramo, C. Benbow, W. Bertucci, B. Bissaldi, E. Bitossi, M. Boiano, A. Bonavolontá, C. Bose, R. Brill, A. Buckley, J. H. Byrum, K. Cameron, R. A. Capasso, M. Caprai, M. Covault, C. E. Di Venere, L. Fegan, S. Feng, Q. Fiandrini, E. Furniss, A. Garczarczyk, M. Garfias, F. Gent, A. Giglietto, N. Giordano, F. González, M. M. Halliday, R. Humensky, T. B. Ribeiro, D. Hervet, O. Hughes, G. Ionica, M. Iriarte, A. Jin, W. Kaaret, P. Kieda, D. Kim, B. Limon, M. Loporchio, S. Meures, T. Mode, B. A. W. Mukherjee, R. Nieto, D. Okumura, A. Otte, N. LA PALOMBARA, NICOLA Pantaleo, F. R. Paoletti, R. PARESCHI, Giovanni Petrashyk, A. Powell, J. Roache, E. Rousselle, J. Rugliancich, A. Ruíz-Díaz-Soto, J. Santander, M. Schlenstedt, S. SCUDERI, Salvatore Shang, R. SIRONI, GIORGIA Stevenson, B. Stiaccini, L. Taylor, L. P. Tosti, L. Tovmassian, G. Vagelli, V. Valentino, M. Vandenbroucke, J. Vassiliev, V. Wakely, S. P. Wilcox, P. Williams, D. A. Yu, P. |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Volume: | Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII | Editors: | Marshall, Heather K.; Spyromilio, Jason; Usuda, Tomonori | Series: | PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE | Number: | 11445 | First Page: | 114456A-1 | Abstract: | The novel 9.7m Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT), utilizing aspheric dual-mirror optical system, has been constructed as a prototype medium size x-ray telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory. The prototype SCT (pSCT) is designed to achieve simultaneously the wide (>= 8°) field of view and the superior imaging resolution (0.067 per pixel) to significantly improve scientific capabilities of the observatory in conducting the sky surveys, the follow-up observations of multi-messenger transients with poorly known initial localization and the morphology studies of x-ray sources with angular extent. In this submission, we describe the hardware and software implementations of the telescope optical system as well as the methods specifically developed to align its complex optical system, in which both primary and secondary mirrors are segmented. The pSCT has detected Crab Nebula in June 2020 during ongoing commissioning, which was delayed due to worldwide pandemic and is not yet completed. Verification of pSCT performance is continuing and further improvement of optical alignment is anticipated. | Conference Name: | Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII | Conference Place: | California, United States | Conference Date: | 14-18 December, 2020 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/31339 | URL: | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11445/2564653/Alignment-of-the-optical-system-of-the-97-m-prototype/10.1117/12.2564653.full | ISSN: | 0277-786X | ISBN: | 9781510636774 9781510636781 |
DOI: | 10.1117/12.2564653 | Bibcode ADS: | 2020SPIE11445E..6AA | Fulltext: | open |
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