Generic Misalignment Aberration Patterns in Wide-Field Telescopes

Axially symmetric telescopes produce well-known Seidel off-axis third-order aberration patterns: coma, astigmatism, curvature of field, and distortion. When axial symmetry is broken by the small misalignments of optical elements, additional third-order aberration patterns arise: one each for coma, a...

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Main Authors: Schechter, Paul L. (Contributor), Levinson, Rebecca Sobel (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, 2012-06-12T17:34:28Z.
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