Generic misalignment aberration patterns and the subspace of benign misalignment

Q1: Why deploy N wavefront sensors on a three mirror anastigmat (TMA) and not N + 1? Q2: Why measure M Zernike coefficients and not M + 1? Q3: Why control L rigid body degrees of freedom (total) on the secondary and tertiary and not L + 1? The usual answer: "We did a lot of ray tracing and N, M...

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Main Authors: Schechter, Paul L. (Contributor), Levinson, Rebecca Sobel (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2014-08-07T18:00:22Z.
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