Phasing the Webb Telescope

D. Scott Acton; Scott Knight; Maria Carrasquilla; Nick Weiser; Michaela Masciarelli; Sarah Jurczyk; Greg Rapp; Julio Mueckay; Erin Wolf; Jess Murphy; Larkin Carey; Eric Coppock; Chanda Walker; Joel Runnels; Garrett West; Greg Wirth; Brian Hicks; Katie Melbourne; Michael Gordon; Bob Brown; Stefano Grimaldi; Derek Sabatke; Ray Wright; Laura Coyle; Taylor Chonis; Kevin Whiteaker; Marshall Perrin; Tom Comeau; Charles-Philippe Lajoie; George Hartig; Tracy Beck; Matt Lallo; Mike Regan; Randal Telfer; Marcio Meléndez; Greg Brady; Laurent Pueyo; Nicolas Flagey; Bernard Kulp; Ed Nelan; Kiera Brooks; Pierre Chayer; Shannon Osborne; Sherie Holfeltz; Tony Sohn; Tom Zielinski; Alden Jurling; Matt Bergkoetter; Chuck Bowers; Bruce Dean; Lee Feinberg; Ritva Keski-Kuha; Jeff Kirk; Michael W. McElwain; Joe Howard

doi:10.1117/12.2633474

27 August 2022 Phasing the Webb Telescope

D. Scott Acton, Scott Knight, Maria Carrasquilla, Nick Weiser, Michaela Masciarelli, Sarah Jurczyk, Greg Rapp, Julio Mueckay, Erin Wolf, Jess Murphy, Larkin Carey, Eric Coppock, Chanda Walker, Joel Runnels, Garrett West, Greg Wirth, Brian Hicks, Katie Melbourne, Michael Gordon, Bob Brown, Stefano Grimaldi, Derek Sabatke, Ray Wright, Laura Coyle, Taylor Chonis, Kevin Whiteaker, Marshall Perrin, Tom Comeau, Charles-Philippe Lajoie, George Hartig, Tracy Beck, Matt Lallo, Mike Regan, Randal Telfer, Marcio Meléndez, Greg Brady, Laurent Pueyo, Nicolas Flagey, Bernard Kulp, Ed Nelan, Kiera Brooks, Pierre Chayer, Shannon Osborne, Sherie Holfeltz, Tony Sohn, Tom Zielinski, Alden Jurling, Matt Bergkoetter, Chuck Bowers, Bruce Dean, Lee Feinberg, Ritva Keski-Kuha, Jeff Kirk, Michael W. McElwain, Joe Howard

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Proceedings Volume 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 121800U (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633474
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Abstract

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a segmented deployable telescope, currently operating at L2. The telescope utilizes 6 degrees of freedom for adjustment of the Secondary Mirror (SM) and 7 degrees of freedom for adjustment of each of its 18 segments in the Primary Mirror (PM). After deployment, the PM segments and the SM arrived in their correct optical positions to within a ~1 mm, with accordingly large wavefront errors. A Wavefront Sensing and Controls (WFSC) process was executed to adjust each of these optical elements in order to correct the deployment errors and produce diffraction-limited images across the entire science field. This paper summarizes the application of the WFSC process.

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D. Scott Acton, Scott Knight, Maria Carrasquilla, Nick Weiser, Michaela Masciarelli, Sarah Jurczyk, Greg Rapp, Julio Mueckay, Erin Wolf, Jess Murphy, Larkin Carey, Eric Coppock, Chanda Walker, Joel Runnels, Garrett West, Greg Wirth, Brian Hicks, Katie Melbourne, Michael Gordon, Bob Brown, Stefano Grimaldi, Derek Sabatke, Ray Wright, Laura Coyle, Taylor Chonis, Kevin Whiteaker, Marshall Perrin, Tom Comeau, Charles-Philippe Lajoie, George Hartig, Tracy Beck, Matt Lallo, Mike Regan, Randal Telfer, Marcio Meléndez, Greg Brady, Laurent Pueyo, Nicolas Flagey, Bernard Kulp, Ed Nelan, Kiera Brooks, Pierre Chayer, Shannon Osborne, Sherie Holfeltz, Tony Sohn, Tom Zielinski, Alden Jurling, Matt Bergkoetter, Chuck Bowers, Bruce Dean, Lee Feinberg, Ritva Keski-Kuha, Jeff Kirk, Michael W. McElwain, and Joe Howard "Phasing the Webb Telescope", Proc. SPIE 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 121800U (27 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633474

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