Rubin Observatory primary tertiary mirror cell assembly: Optical testing of the fully assembled mirror support

Bo Xin; Doug R. Neill; Sandrine Thomas; Chuck F. Claver; Christopher Contaxis; Ed Hileman; William W. Hubler; Adrian R. Loeff; Kurtis L. Kenagy; Hubert M. Martin; Stephanie Meyen; Michael T. Tuell; Steven C. West

doi:10.1117/12.2562765

13 December 2020 Rubin Observatory primary tertiary mirror cell assembly: Optical testing of the fully assembled mirror support

Bo Xin, Doug R. Neill, Sandrine Thomas, Chuck F. Claver, Christopher Contaxis, Ed Hileman, William W. Hubler, Adrian R. Loeff, Kurtis L. Kenagy, Hubert M. Martin, Stephanie Meyen, Michael T. Tuell, Steven C. West

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Proceedings Volume 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII; 114454T (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562765
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Primary Tertiary Mirror (M1M3), together with the fully-assembled mirror support system, underwent two optical testing campaigns at the University of Arizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab. The objectives of the testing campaigns were: (1) optimizing the M1M3 surfaces with support forces, and (2) characterizing how the surfaces respond to actuator forces, including measuring the bending modes and single actuator influence functions. Both objectives were successfully achieved. The differences between the measured bending modes and the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) predicted modes were shown to be less than a few percent. The surface optimizations routinely resulted in Root-Mean-Square (RMS) surface errors below 30 nm for M1 and M3, simultaneously. The entire system was shown to be robust and repeatable. In this paper, we present the results of the optical testing and the analyses performed using the data acquired.

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Bo Xin, Doug R. Neill, Sandrine Thomas, Chuck F. Claver, Christopher Contaxis, Ed Hileman, William W. Hubler, Adrian R. Loeff, Kurtis L. Kenagy, Hubert M. Martin, Stephanie Meyen, Michael T. Tuell, and Steven C. West "Rubin Observatory primary tertiary mirror cell assembly: Optical testing of the fully assembled mirror support", Proc. SPIE 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII, 114454T (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562765

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