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Optical Design for a Cubesat: Unobscured Telescope, Using Freeform Mirrors and a Curved Detector

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Abstract

The possibility of constructing an optical scheme of a telescope for a small satellite based on mirrors with freeform surfaces and a curved photodetector is considered. It is shown that the use of a new element base allows the effective area of the main mirror to be maximized and the field of view up to 9.4 times to be increased in comparison with the classical scheme of the Ritchey–Chretien scheme in ensuring the high image quality.

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  • 24 November 2018

    Since the time, when the manuscript was submitted, the official name of affiliation of authors’ E.R. Muslimov, E. Hugot, M. Ferrari, and T. Behaghel has been changed. Now the proper affiliation is: Aix Marseille Univ., CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France.

    The following acknowledgement should be added: “The authors would like to acknowledge the European commission for funding this work through the Program H2020-ERC-STG-2015 – 678777 of the European Research Council, as well as the French Research Agency through the program LabEx FOCUS ANR-11-LABX-0013”.

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  1. Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, LAM, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, 38 rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Marseille, France

    E. R. Muslimov, E. Hugot, M. Ferrari & T. Behaghel

  2. Tupolev Kazan National Research Technical University, ul. Karla Marksa 10, Kazan Tatarstan, 420111, Russia

    E. R. Muslimov & N. K. Pavlycheva

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Original Russian Text © E.R. Muslimov, E. Hugot, M. Ferrari, T. Behaghel, N.K. Pavlycheva, 2018, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Aviatsionnaya Tekhnika, 2018, No. 1, pp. 5–10.

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Muslimov, E.R., Hugot, E., Ferrari, M. et al. Optical Design for a Cubesat: Unobscured Telescope, Using Freeform Mirrors and a Curved Detector. Russ. Aeronaut. 61, 1–7 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068799818010014

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