J. Arenberg, Micahaela N. Villareal, G. Harpole, D. McGregor, Ariane Walker-Horne, J. Pohner, Kevin Moore, Alex Clithero, Lauren Halvonik Harris, A. Palisoc
{"title":"Environmental Challenges to OASIS’s Primary Reflector","authors":"J. Arenberg, Micahaela N. Villareal, G. Harpole, D. McGregor, Ariane Walker-Horne, J. Pohner, Kevin Moore, Alex Clithero, Lauren Halvonik Harris, A. Palisoc","doi":"10.1117/12.2594706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594706","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses pressure control for the OASIS primary antenna element, A1. This discussion is centered around the evaluation of pressure changes and what might drive them. A1 is created from thin polyimide film and from its orbital position near Sun-Earth L1, is subject to many environmental effects, the solar wind, radiation pressure, charging and micrometeoroids. This paper begins by describing the architecture of the pressure control system. We show that the solar wind and radiation pressure are too small to impact A1’s performance. We also discuss the need to connect the A1 to system ground for solid technical and programmatic reasons. A large section discusses the micrometeoroid environment and how recent mission data shows that the flux faced by OASIS is likely larger by factor of ~3 than might be expected from naive application of the traditional models.","PeriodicalId":415801,"journal":{"name":"Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems III","volume":"305 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122970283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Por, M. Kenworthy, S. Haffert, F. Snik, Jolanda Frensch, J. Wardenier, M. Zilinskas
{"title":"Multiple-wave lateral shearing interferometry with a liquid-crystal geometric phase grating","authors":"E. Por, M. Kenworthy, S. Haffert, F. Snik, Jolanda Frensch, J. Wardenier, M. Zilinskas","doi":"10.1117/12.2595002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2595002","url":null,"abstract":"A multiple-wave lateral shearing interferometer extends upon the traditional lateral shearing interferometry by producing multiple sheared copies of the incoming light. By using a special grating instead of a shear plate, it is able to produce fringes in multiple directions at the same time. This makes it possible to do single-shot reconstruction of both phase and amplitude aberrations.\u0000\u0000Instead of a surface relief grating, we propose to use a patterned half-wave plate manufactured using direct-write techniques that acts as a liquid-crystal geometric phase grating. We demonstrate its wavefront sensing capabilities with laboratory measurements with an ALPAO-97 deformable mirror in monochromatic light. Finally, we present on-sky measurements performed at the William Herschel Telescope, showing broadband operation in unpolarized light.","PeriodicalId":415801,"journal":{"name":"Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems III","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128429557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voyage 2050, an outlook to the next ESA Science programme","authors":"M. Linder","doi":"10.1117/12.2605573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2605573","url":null,"abstract":"A call for ideas for Voyage 2050 was issued in March 2019, generating close to 100 diverse and ambitious ideas, which were subsequently distilled into a number of science themes. Topical teams, comprising many early career through senior scientists, from a broad range of space science expertise areas, carried out an initial assessment of the themes and reported their findings to a senior science committee. This committee was tasked by the Director to recommend not only science themes for the next three large-class missions following the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Athena and LISA, but also to identify potential themes for future medium-class missions, and recommend areas for long-term technology development beyond the scope of Voyage 2050. The science themes were selected by ESA's Science Programme Committee at a meeting on 10 June 2021. The talk will provide an overview of the process and describe the selected themes covering the Moons of the giant planets, from temperate exoplanets to the Milky Way and new physical probes of the early universe.","PeriodicalId":415801,"journal":{"name":"Astronomical Optics: Design, Manufacture, and Test of Space and Ground Systems III","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123061518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}