Optical analysis of spherical mirrors of telescopes: The lens-less Schmidt case

✍ Scribed by Paolo Walter Cattaneo

• Book ID: 103857920
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 736 KB
• Volume: 608
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.07.032

✦ Synopsis

The light distribution on the focal surface of spheric mirrors designed for telescopes in the lens-less Schmidt configuration is calculated analytically using geometrical optics.

This analysis was motivated by considerations of the design of the AUGER fluorescence detector [J. Abraham, et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 533 (2004) 50]. Its geometrical parameters are used in the examples.