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26 May 2018 Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope: a low-cost flat configuration for a 100+ meter ground based telescope
Benjamin Monreal, Christian Rodriguez, Ama Carney, Robert Halliday, Mingyuan Wang
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 024001 (May 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.024001
Abstract
The Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope (WAET) is a ground-based optical telescope layout in which one dimension of a filled aperture can be made very large (beyond 100 m) at low cost and complexity. With an unusual beam path but otherwise conventional optics, we obtain a fully steerable telescope on a low-rise mount with a fixed-gravity vector on key components. Numerous design considerations and scaling laws suggest that WAET can be far less expensive than other giant segmented mirror telescopes.
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Benjamin Monreal, Christian Rodriguez, Ama Carney, Robert Halliday, and Mingyuan Wang "Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope: a low-cost flat configuration for a 100+ meter ground based telescope," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 4(2), 024001 (26 May 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.024001
Received: 26 December 2017; Accepted: 23 April 2018; Published: 26 May 2018
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KEYWORDS
Telescopes
Mirrors
Exoplanets
Adaptive optics
Space telescopes
Point spread functions
Spherical lenses
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