8. Beam Profiles, Pointing and Focal Plane Geometry

• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Entrance Apertures and Detector Fields of View
  • 8.2.1 Entrance aperture optics
  • 8.2.2 Entrance apertures and spacecraft axis
• 8.3 Determination of Focal Plane Geometry
  • 8.3.1 Detector fields of view
• 8.4 The Beam Profile
  • 8.4.1 Calibration observations
  • 8.4.2 Results
• 8.5 Straylight
• 8.6 Pointing Effects
  • 8.6.1 Introduction
  • 8.6.2 Pointing effects on fringes
  • 8.6.3 Pointing jitter induced correlated noise
  • 8.6.4 Signal modulation on Dra