FEA testing the pre-flight Ariel primary mirror

Gottini, Daniele, Pace, Emanuele, Tozzi, Andrea, Bianucci, Giovanni, Bocchieri, Andrea, Brienza, Daniele, Brucalassi, Anna, Canestrari, Rodolfo, Carbonaro, Luca, Chioetto, Paolo, Cortecchia, Fausto, Del Vecchio, Ciro, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Eccleston, Paul, Fahmy, Salma, Ferruzzi, Debora, Galy, Camille, Grisoni, Gabriele, Guerriero, Elisa, Halain, Jean-Philippe, Hellin, Marie-Laure, Iuzzolino, Marcella, Jollet, Delphine, Lombini, Matteo, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Micela, Giuseppina, Missaglia, Nadia, Morgante, Gianluca, Mugnai, Lorenzo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9007-9802, Naponiello, Luca, Pascale, Enzo, Piazzolla, Raffaele, Preti, Giampaolo, Roose, Stephane, Salatti, Mario, Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, Scippa, Antonio, Terenzi, Luca, Tinetti, Giovanna, Tommasi Di Vigano, Elisabetta, Zuppella, Paola, Coyle, Laura E., Perrin, Marshall D. and Matsuura, Shuji 2022. FEA testing the pre-flight Ariel primary mirror. Presented at: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 17 - 22 July 2022. Proceedings SPIE, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave. , vol.1280 SPIE, 10.1117/12.2629815

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Abstract

Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) is an ESA M class mission aimed at the study of exoplanets. The satellite will orbit in the lagrangian point L2 and will survey a sample of 1000 exoplanets simultaneously in visible and infrared wavelengths. The challenging scientific goal of Ariel implies unprecedented engineering efforts to satisfy the severe requirements coming from the science in terms of accuracy. The most important specification – an all-Aluminum telescope – requires very accurate design of the primary mirror (M1), a novel, off-set paraboloid honeycomb mirror with ribs, edge, and reflective surface. To validate such a mirror, some tests were carried out on a prototype – namely Pathfinder Telescope Mirror (PTM) – built specifically for this purpose. These tests, carried out at the Centre Spatial de Liège in Belgium – revealed an unexpected deformation of the reflecting surface exceeding a peek-to-valley of 1µm. Consequently, the test had to be re-run, to identify systematic errors and correct the setting for future tests on the final prototype M1. To avoid the very expensive procedure of developing a new prototype and testing it both at room and cryogenic temperatures, it was decided to carry out some numerical simulations. These analyses allowed first to recognize and understand the reasoning behind the faults occurred during the testing phase, and later to apply the obtained knowledge to a new M1 design to set a defined guideline for future testing campaigns.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	SPIE
Last Modified:	01 Jun 2023 10:31
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159713

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