Sumários

JWST Cophasing technologies Reference systems, again

11 Abril 2025, 09:00 José Manuel Rebordão

Reference systems: examples from GAIA and PLATO. Callibrations
JWST - Phase diversity. Overview of the cophasing process. Pupil Imaging Lens (PIL).
 
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JWST: brief reference to subarrays
Introduction to Gravitational Wave observatories


Spectroscopy (class 3 of 3)

9 Abril 2025, 17:00 Bachar Wehbe

Introduction to the operation of spectrometers and monochromators.

Study of the dispersion of light, the properties of diffracting elements and how they are used in monochromators and spectrographs. Spectral characterization of non-monochromatic light and its analysis in bench top spectrographs.

Building a prism and grating Spectrographs.


Spectroscopy (class 3 of 3)

9 Abril 2025, 15:00 Alexandre Pereira Cabral

Introduction to the operation of spectrometers and monochromators.

Study of the dispersion of light, the properties of diffracting elements and how they are used in monochromators and spectrographs. Spectral characterization of non-monochromatic light and its analysis in bench top spectrographs.

Building a prism and grating Spectrographs.


Cophasing technologies

7 Abril 2025, 14:00 José Manuel Rebordão

Phase: Zernike decomposition of phase distributions.
Phase retrieval: The Gerchber-Saxton/IFTA algorithm; kinoforms; examples similar to JWST needs
 
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Phase Diversity
Introduction to GW detection technologies


JWST – miscellaneous. MOONS. Introduction to cophasing

4 Abril 2025, 09:00 José Manuel Rebordão

NIRISS AMI – Conclusion
MOONS – selection of objects and delivery to the spectrographs (IFU-like). Relevance of the field curvature at Masmyth focal surface and role of the field flatenner. Irrelevance of the focal curvature for JWST.
QUATERNIONS: rotations in 3D, rotation matrices, systems of Euler angles, warnings concerning different systems. Unit quaternions and how they can be used to implement rotations of the reference systems. Properties of quaternions. Operations with quaternions. Conversion from/to quaternions to rotation matrices and Euler angles.
JWST COPHASING: HW and SW elements available to co-phase. A brief overview of the steps to cophase JWST.
 
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Cophasing elements and technologies. Phase modelling.