Wednesday, 22 June 2011

telescope - What visual artifacts are expected from the JWST?

Are you asking about the PSF (point-spread function)?



There are some simulations at http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/software/webbpsf ; there are some basic images available at that site as well as a downloadable package you can use to compute the PSF for a particular instrument and wavelength. Since the telescope hasn't been fully assembled yet these are based on simulations.

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