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15 July 2008 The high-resolution lightweight telescope for the EUV (HiLiTE)
Dennis S. Martínez-Galarce, Paul Boerner, Regina Soufli, Bart De Pontieu, Noah Katz, Alan Title, Eric M. Gullikson, Jeff C. Robinson, Sherry L. Baker
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The High-resolution Lightweight Telescope for the EUV (HiLiTE) is a Cassegrain telescope that will be made entirely of Silicon Carbide (SiC), optical substrates and metering structure alike. Using multilayer coatings, this instrument will be tuned to operate at the 465 Å Ne VII emission line, formed in solar transition region plasma at ~500,000 K. HiLiTE will have an aperture of 30 cm, angular resolution of ~0.2 arc seconds and operate at a cadence of ~5 seconds or less, having a mass that is about 1/4 that of one of the 20 cm aperture telescopes on the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This new instrument technology thus serves as a path finder to a post-AIA, Explorer-class missions.
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Dennis S. Martínez-Galarce, Paul Boerner, Regina Soufli, Bart De Pontieu, Noah Katz, Alan Title, Eric M. Gullikson, Jeff C. Robinson, and Sherry L. Baker "The high-resolution lightweight telescope for the EUV (HiLiTE)", Proc. SPIE 7011, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 70113K (15 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788508
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KEYWORDS
Mirrors

Telescopes

Silicon carbide

Space telescopes

Extreme ultraviolet

Multilayers

Reflectivity

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