Quality assurance of actuators for the Medium-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Quality assurance of actuators for the Medium-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
المؤلفون: Salzmann, Heiko, Dick, Jürgen, Diebold, Sebastian, Pühlhofer, Gerd, Renner, Siegbert, Santangelo, Andrea, Project, CTA MST
المصدر: PoS Gamma2022 228
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy providing unparalleled sensitivity in the energy range from 20 GeV up to 300 TeV. CTA will consist of telescopes with three different sizes. The Medium-Sized Telescopes (MSTs) will have 12 m reflectors with a tessellated mirror design of 86 mirror facets each. Each mirror facet is mounted on the mirror support structure with two actuators that are adjustable in length to align the mirrors, and a freely rotating fixpoint. Image resolution and pointing accuracy constraints impose limits on the backlash and deformation of the actuators and the fixpoint under various weight and wind loads. In this contribution, the test stand to measure the backlash and deformation behaviour of actuators and fixpoints is described and the measurement procedure is explained.
Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures. Accepted as Proceeding of the 7th Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2022)
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05058
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2405.05058
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv