Mirror seeing control of large infrared solar telescope

Haiying Zhang; Xinnan Li; Xiaohui Meng; Houkun Ni

doi:10.1117/12.856099

6 August 2010 Mirror seeing control of large infrared solar telescope

Haiying Zhang, Xinnan Li, Xiaohui Meng, Houkun Ni

Proceedings Volume 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III; 77332Y (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856099
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

To obtain high resolution infrared image, both low photon efficiency and long wavelength of infrared light requires enough large aperture telescope, but large aperture vacuum windows can hardly achieve high optical quality, so open structure becomes the only viable choice for large infrared solar telescope. In addition to the effects of atmospheric turbulence, open solar telescopes suffer from the heating of the optics by sunlight, especially primary mirror heating. These factors cause the image to shiver and become blurred, and increase infrared observing noise. Since blowing air across the front surface of the primary mirror doesn't have the necessary heat transfer coefficient to remove the absorbed heat load, it must be cooled down to maintained at a temperature between 0K and 2K below ambient air temperature to reduce the effects of turbulence. This paper will introduce some cooling methods and simulation results of primary mirror in large infrared solar telescope. On the other hand, mirror material with nice thermal conductivity can reduce the temperature difference between mirror surface and air, and mirror surface polishing at infrared wavelength can be comparatively easier than at visible wavelength, so it is possible to select low cost metal mirror as primary mirror of infrared solar telescope. To analyze the technical feasibility of metal mirror serving as primary mirror, this paper also give some polishing results of aluminum mirror with electroless nickel coating.

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Haiying Zhang, Xinnan Li, Xiaohui Meng, and Houkun Ni "Mirror seeing control of large infrared solar telescope", Proc. SPIE 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III, 77332Y (6 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856099

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