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A Simplified Theory of External Occulters for Solar Coronagraphs
Craig E. DeForest, Nicholas F. Erickson, Matthew N. Beasley +3
We present a first-principles analytic treatment of modern multi-vane occulters in circular (coronagraph) and linear (heliospheric imager) geometry, develop a simplified theory tha…
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CATEcor: an Open Science, Shaded-Truss, Externally-Occulted Coronagraph
Craig E. DeForest, Daniel B. Seaton, Amir Caspi +7
We present the design of a portable coronagraph, CATEcor, that incorporates a novel "shaded truss" style of external occultation and serves as a proof-of-concept for that family of…