Systems engineering analysis of five 'as-manufactured' SXI telescopes

James E. Harvey; Martina Atanassova; Andrey Krywonos

doi:10.1117/12.622376

18 August 2005 Systems engineering analysis of five 'as-manufactured' SXI telescopes

James E. Harvey, Martina Atanassova, Andrey Krywonos

Proceedings Volume 5867, Optical Modeling and Performance Predictions II; 58670F (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.622376
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Four flight models and a spare of the Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) telescope mirrors have been fabricated. The first of these is scheduled to be launched on the NOAA GOES- N satellite on July 29, 2005. A complete systems engineering analysis of the "as-manufactured" telescope mirrors has been performed that includes diffraction effects, residual design errors (aberrations), surface scatter effects, and all of the miscellaneous errors in the mirror manufacturer's error budget tree. Finally, a rigorous analysis of mosaic detector effects has been included. SXI is a staring telescope providing full solar disc images at X-ray wavelengths. For wide-field applications such as this, a field-weighted-average measure of resolution has been modeled. Our performance predictions have allowed us to use metrology data to model the "as-manufactured" performance of the X-ray telescopes and to adjust the final focal plane location to optimize the number of spatial resolution elements in a given operational field-of-view (OFOV) for either the aerial image or the detected image. The resulting performance predictions from five separate mirrors allow us to evaluate and quantify the optical fabrication process for producing these very challenging grazing incidence X-ray optics.

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James E. Harvey, Martina Atanassova, and Andrey Krywonos "Systems engineering analysis of five 'as-manufactured' SXI telescopes", Proc. SPIE 5867, Optical Modeling and Performance Predictions II, 58670F (18 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.622376

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