SOFIA天文台在常规科学运行初期的任务能力与性能
天体物理仪器与方法
2015-06-19 v1
摘要
平流层红外天文台（SOFIA）最近完成了一系列用于天文台性能评估的工程飞行。这些飞行中的机会被视为对天文台性能的首次全面评估，并用于指导未来的开发活动，以及确定额外的天文台升级。评估了指向稳定性，包括由刚体和柔性体望远镜模式以及可能的气动光学图像运动引起的图像运动。我们报告了通过安装在望远镜上的主动质量阻尼器系统在指向稳定性方面的最新改进。还进行了剪切层和腔体视宁度的测量与表征，以及作为波长函数的图像质量评估。其他测试针对基本天文台能力和要求，包括指向精度、斩波器评估和成像仪灵敏度。本文报告了在这些飞行期间收集的数据，并展示了当前SOFIA天文台的性能和表征。
引用
@article{arxiv.1405.7390,
title = {The SOFIA Observatory at the Start of Routine Science Operations : Mission capabilities and performance},
author = {Pasquale Temi and Pamela M. Marcum and Erick Young and Joseph D. Adams and Sybil Adams and B. -G. Andersson and Eric E. Becklin and Adwin Boogert and Rick Brewster and Eric Burgh and Brent R. Cobleigh and Steven Culp and Jim De Buizer and Edward W. Dunham and Christian Engfer and Geoffrey Ediss and Maura Fujieh and Randy Grashuis and Michael Gross and Edward Harmon and Andrew Helton and Douglas Hoffman and Jeff Homan and Michael Hutwohl and Holger Jakob and Stephen C. Jensen and Charles Kaminski and Daniel Kozarsky and Alfred Krabbe and Randolf Klein and Yannick Lammen and Ulrich Lampater and William B. Latter and Jeanette Le and Nancy McKown and Riccardo Melchiorri and Allan W. Meyer and John Miles and Walter E. Miller and Scott Miller and Elizabeth Moore and Donald J. Nickison and Kortney Opshaug and Enrico Pfueller and James Radomski and John Rasmussen and William Reach and Andreas Reinacher and Thomas L. Roellig and Goran Sandell and Ravi Sankrit and Maureen L. Savage and Sachindev Shenoy and Julie E. Schonfeld and Ralph Y. Shuping and Erin C. Smith and Ehsan Talebi and Stefan Teufel and Ting C. Tseng and William D. Vacca and John Vaillancourt and Jeffrey E. Van Cleve and Manuel Wiedemann and Jurgen Wolf and Eddie Zavala and Oliver Zeile and Peter T. Zell and Hans Zinnecker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7390},
year = {2015}
}
备注
13 pages, 13 figure, and 2 tables; accepted by ApJS