Conference proceeding
The Opto-Mechanical Design of the Sub-orbital Local Interstellar Cloud Experiment (SLICE)
UV, X-RAY, AND GAMMA-RAY SPACE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY XVIII, Vol.8859, pp.885912-885912-16
Proceedings of SPIE
08/25/2013
DOI: 10.1117/12.2023079
Abstract
We present the fabrication and testing of the Sub-orbital Local Interstellar Cloud Experiment (SLICE), a rocket-borne payload for ultraviolet astrophysics in the 1020 to 1070 angstrom bandpass. The SLICE optical system is composed of an ultraviolet-optimized telescope feeding a Rowland Circle spectrograph. The telescope is an 8-inch Classical Cassegrain operating at F/7, with Al optics overcoated with LiF for enhanced far-ultraviolet reflectivity. The holographically-ruled grating focuses light at an open-faced microchannel plate detector employing an opaque RbBr photocathode. In this proceeding, we describe the design trades and calibration issues confronted during the build-up of this payload. We place particular emphasis on the technical details of the design, modifications, construction, and alignment procedures for SLICE in order to provide a roadmap for the optimization of future ruggedized experiments for ultraviolet imaging and spectroscopy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Opto-Mechanical Design of the Sub-orbital Local Interstellar Cloud Experiment (SLICE)
- Creators
- Robert Kane - University of Colorado BoulderNicolas Nell - Univ Colorado, Ctr Astrophys & Space Astron, Campus Box 391, Boulder, CO 80309 USATed Schultz - University of IowaKevin France - Univ Colorado, Ctr Astrophys & Space Astron, Campus Box 391, Boulder, CO 80309 USAMatthew BeasleyEric Burgh - Ames Research CenterRachel Bushinsky - University of Colorado BoulderKeri Hoadley - University of Colorado Boulder
- Contributors
- O H Siegmund (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- UV, X-RAY, AND GAMMA-RAY SPACE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY XVIII, Vol.8859, pp.885912-885912-16
- Series
- Proceedings of SPIE
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.2023079
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
- eISSN
- 1996-756X
- Publisher
- Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering
- Number of pages
- 16
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/25/2013
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984429014202771
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