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Issue A&A
Volume 411, Number 1, November III 2003
Special letters issue on: first science with integral
Page(s) L269 - L273
Section Letters
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20031480



A&A 411, L269-L273 (2003)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031480

Letter

Optical design of the Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) of INTEGRAL

E. Mazy1, J. M. Defise1, J. Y. Plesseria1, E. Renotte1, P. Rochus1, T. Belenguer2, E. Díaz2 and J. M. Mas-Hesse3, 4

1  Centre Spatial de Liège, Université de Liège, Av. du Pré-Aily, 4031 Angleur, Belgium
2  Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial-INTA, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
3  Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
4  Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental (LAEFF-INTA), PO Box 50727, 28080 Madrid, Spain

(Received 24 July 2003 / Accepted 20 September 2003 )

Abstract
The Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) will observe the optical emission from the main targets of the gamma-ray instruments onboard the ESA mission INTEGRAL. The OMC is based on a refractive optics with an aperture of 50 mm focused onto a large format CCD ( $1024 \times 2048$ pixels), and a field of view of $5\degr\times5\degr$. This paper describes the design of the optical system and the optical baffles of the OMC.


Key words: instrumentation: photometers -- space vehicles: instruments -- techniques: photometric

Offprint request: E. Mazy, emazy@ulg.ac.be




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