3 papers
astro-ph.IM2026
Design and modeling of an oblique incidence dichroic mirror for a high contrast imaging system
Joanna Rosenbluth, Ramya Anche, Kyle Van Gorkom +4
The proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to detect and characterize Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars from the ultraviolet to the infrared using high-contrast im…
astro-ph.IM2025
Optical design and polarimetric performance of a SmallSat UV polarimeter to study interstellar dust: PUFFINS
Ramya M Anche, Hyukmo Kang, Kyle Van Gorkom +19
The Polarimetry in the Ultraviolet to Find Features in INterStellar dust (PUFFINS) is a SmallSat mission concept designed to obtain ultraviolet (UV) spectropolarimetric observation…
astro-ph.IM2025
Stages of commissioning alignment for three-mirror anastigmat (TMA) telescopes
Solvay Blomquist, Heejoo Choi, Hyukmo Kang +7
Reliable, autonomously, deployment of telescopes enables a wide range of possible science cases. In this paper, we present a method for multi-stage telescope alignment with a simpl…