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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schechter, Paul L., Levinson, Rebecca Sobel
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71133
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5665-4172