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1AXAF alignment test system autocollimating flat error correction
By Timothy S. Lewis
“AXAF alignment test system autocollimating flat error correction” Metadata:
- Title: ➤ AXAF alignment test system autocollimating flat error correction
- Author: Timothy S. Lewis
- Language: English
- Publisher: ➤ National Aeronautics and Space Administration - National Technical Information Service, distributor
- Publish Date: 1995
- Publish Location: ➤ [Washington, DC - Springfield, Va
“AXAF alignment test system autocollimating flat error correction” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Collimation - X ray astrophysics facility - Paraboloid mirrors - Flat surfaces - Fourier analysis - Alignment
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- The Open Library ID: OL15505047M
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- First Year Published: 1995
- Is Full Text Available: No
- Is The Book Public: No
- Access Status: No_ebook
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Parabolic reflector
A parabolic (or paraboloid or paraboloidal) reflector (or dish or mirror) is a reflective surface used to collect or project energy such as light, sound
Paraboloid
rotating liquid is also a circular paraboloid. This is used in liquid-mirror telescopes and in making solid telescope mirrors (see rotating furnace). Parallel
Rotating furnace
spinning liquid is a concave paraboloid, identical to the shape of a reflecting telescope's primary focusing mirror. Paraboloids can be used in various ways
Mirror
corner. Natural mirrors have existed since prehistoric times, such as the surface of water, but people have been manufacturing mirrors out of a variety
Liquid-mirror telescope
Liquid-mirror telescopes are telescopes with mirrors made with a reflective liquid. The most common liquid used is mercury, but other liquids will work
Toroidal reflector
curvature. Such reflectors are easier to manufacture than mirrors with a surface described by a paraboloid or ellipsoid. They suffer from spherical aberration
Diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy
reflection in all directions is collected by use of an ellipsoid or paraboloid mirror. Shape, compactness, refractive index, reflectivity and absorption
Bonaventura Cavalieri
he developed the theory of mirrors shaped into parabolas, hyperbolas, and ellipses, and various combinations of these mirrors. He demonstrated that if,
Reflecting telescope
and solidifies. (See Rotating furnace.) The resulting mirror shape approximates a desired paraboloid shape that requires minimal grinding and polishing to
Three-mirror anastigmat
A three-mirror anastigmat is an anastigmat telescope built with three curved mirrors, enabling it to minimize all three main optical aberrations – spherical