PILOT optical alignment

Longval, Y., Mot, B., Ade, Peter A. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-0401, André, Y., Aumont, J., Baustista, L., Bernard, J.-Ph., Bray, N., de Bernardis, P., Boulade, O., Bousquet, F., Bouzit, M., Buttice, V., Caillat, A., Charra, M., Chaigneau, M., Crane, B., Crussaire, J.-P., Douchin, F., Doumayrou, E., Dubois, J.-P., Engel, C., Etcheto, P., Gélot, P., Griffin, Matthew J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0033-177X, Foenard, G., Grabarnik, S., Hargrave, P.., Hughes, A., Laureijs, R., Lepennec, Y., Leriche, B., Maestre, S., Maffei, B., Martignac, J., Marty, C., Marty, W., Masi, S., Mirc, F., Misawa, R., Montel, J., Montier, L., Narbonne, J., Nicot, J-M., Pajot, F., Parot, G., Pérot, E., Pimentao, J., Pisano, Giampaolo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4302-5681, Ponthieu, N., Ristorcelli, I., Rodriguez, L., Roudil, G., Salatino, M., Savini, Giorgio, Simonella, O., Saccoccio, M., Tapie, P., Tauber, J., Torre, J.-P. and Tucker, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918 2016. PILOT optical alignment. Presented at: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, Edinburgh, Scotland, 26 June - 1 July 2016. Published in: MacEwen, Howard A., Fazio, Giovanni G., Lystrup, Makenzie, Batalha, Natalie, Siegler, Nicholas and Tong, Edward C. eds. Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave. (9904) Bellingham, WA: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, p. 990458. 10.1117/12.2232892

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Abstract

PILOT is a balloon-borne astronomy experiment designed to study the polarization of dust emission in the diffuse interstellar medium in our Galaxy at wavelengths 240 μm with an angular resolution about two arcminutes. Pilot optics is composed an off-axis Gregorian type telescope and a refractive re-imager system. All optical elements, except the primary mirror, are in a cryostat cooled to 3K. We combined the optical, 3D dimensional measurement methods and thermo-elastic modeling to perform the optical alignment. The talk describes the system analysis, the alignment procedure, and finally the performances obtained during the first flight in September 2015. © (2016) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QB Astronomy
Publisher:	Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
ISBN:	9781510601871
ISSN:	0277-786X
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 11:13
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/94250

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