Introduction#
The Full-sun Ultraviolet Rocket Spectrometer (FURST) is a NASA sounding rocket mission designed to measure the full-disk spectrum of the Sun in the far ultraviolet spectral range (120 - 180 nm) with high spectral resolution, \(R > 20,000\). FURST is a Rowland circle spectrograph [Rowland, 1882] which is designed to minimize the number of optical surfaces, and provides the maximum possible throughput in the ultraviolet.
This package provides an idealized model of the FURST optical system which is
designed to be used by the FURST data reduction pipeline.
It uses the optika package to model and simulate the optical system.
Installation#
This package is published to PyPI and can be installed using pip:
pip install furst-optics
API Reference#
An idealized raytrace model of the FURST optical system. |
Bibliography#
Manuel A. Quijada, Stephen Rice, and Eric Mentzell. Enhanced MgF2 and LiF over-coated Al mirrors for FUV space astronomy. In Ramón Navarro, Colin R. Cunningham, and Eric Prieto, editors, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II, volume 8450, 84502H. International Society for Optics and Photonics, SPIE, 2012. URL: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925579, doi:10.1117/12.925579.
H. A. Rowland. Preliminary Notice of the Results Accomplished in the Manufacture and Theory of Gratings for Optical Purposes. Sidereal Messenger, 1:116–122, August 1882.