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10 December 2001 Design concepts of EUV telescopes and the detectors boarded on the Solar Space Telescope
Qian Song, Binxun Ye, Jianlin Cao, Bo Chen, Wenda Cao
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Abstract
The Solar Space Telescope (SST) is the largest scientific space project of China up to now. It engages to observe the transient and steady state solar hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic process over 2-D real time polarizing spectrum, UV, X-ray and H(alpha) image, and continuous time evolution with high spatial and temporal resolution in order to achieve a break through advance in solar physics. The EUV part of SST, the EUV telescope (EUT), consists of four telescopes with their detectors, which are parallel situated in a single telescope tube. Each telescope of the EUT adopts the normal-incidence principle with help of the multilayer technology and the primary mirror diameter is 12cm. The detectors of the EUT are constructed with EUV sensitive phosphors, fiber tapers, image intensifiers, CCDs, camera electronics and cooling blocks. Three telescopes of EUT are designed to achieve a spatial resolution of 0.5 arcsecond with a field of view (FOV) of 8.5'x8.5' in order to get the ever high-resolution image of the fine structure of the high temperature activities in solar corona and the fourth one is 85'x85' to have the full solar disk always in its field of view. In our presentation, the scientific objectives and the configuration of EUT are introduced.
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Qian Song, Binxun Ye, Jianlin Cao, Bo Chen, and Wenda Cao "Design concepts of EUV telescopes and the detectors boarded on the Solar Space Telescope", Proc. SPIE 4498, UV/EUV and Visible Space Instrumentation for Astronomy and Solar Physics, (10 December 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.450067
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KEYWORDS
Space telescopes

Telescopes

Solar processes

Extreme ultraviolet

Sensors

Coronagraphy

Image intensifiers

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