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Published June 23, 2006 | Published
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Analytical modeling of the optical transfer function of a segmented telescope with/without adaptive optics correction of the telescope's dynamical aberrations

Abstract

An all-analytic optical transfer function (OTF) tool for characterizing the performance of a large segmented telescope with/without adaptive optics (AO) correction of the telescope dynamical aberrations is presented. This tool is to be applied to the determination of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) optical budget error, for both telescope aberrations and AO systems specifications. It takes into account the effect of the dynamical aberrations of all optical surfaces from all the hexagonal segments to the tertiary mirror, and includes as an option AO correction of these errors. Here we present the mathematical development of the method, and give an example of application to a 73 segments 10-m telescope, without AO correction.

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© 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the TMT partner institutions. They are the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA), the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), the California Institute of Technology and the University of California. This work was supported, as well, by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by AURA under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and the National Research Council of Canada.

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