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T-ReCS Components

Specific elements of T-ReCS related to science observing:

Windows
Filters
Slits and Occulting Bar
Gratings
Detector
One of the Peripheral WFS (PWFS) is required for image motion stabilization (in one half of the chop cycle) while chopping. Note the restrictions on guide star magnitude.

The diagram below shows the T-ReCS optical path from the entrance window to the focal-plane array.

Click on any element for more details of its design and function.

Graphic provided by the University of Florida and the Florida Space Institute.

Last update 2007 April 30; Jim De Buizer