Habitable exoplanet imager optical telescope concept design

H. Philip Stahl

doi:10.1117/12.2275192

5 September 2017 Habitable exoplanet imager optical telescope concept design

H. Philip Stahl

Proceedings Volume 10398, UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts VIII; 1039806 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2275192
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) is one of four missions under study for the 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey. Its goal is to directly image and spectroscopically characterize planetary systems in the habitable zone of Sunlike stars. Additionally, HabEx will perform a broad range of general astrophysics science enabled by 100 to 2500 nm spectral range and 3 x 3 arc-minute FOV. Critical to achieving the HabEx science goals is a large, ultra-stable UV/Optical/Near-IR (UVOIR) telescope. The baseline HabEx telescope is a 4-meter off-axis unobscured three-mirroranastigmatic, diffraction limited at 400 nm with wavefront stability on the order of a few 10s of picometers. This paper summarizes the opto-mechanical design of the HabEx baseline optical telescope assembly, including a discussion of how science requirements drive the telescope’s specifications, and presents analysis that the baseline telescope structure meets its specified tolerances.

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H. Philip Stahl "Habitable exoplanet imager optical telescope concept design", Proc. SPIE 10398, UV/Optical/IR Space Telescopes and Instruments: Innovative Technologies and Concepts VIII, 1039806 (5 September 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2275192

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