The deflection effect of starlight transmission in hypersonic conditions

  • Jing Hu*
  • , Bo Yang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

When starlight navigation method is applied in the hypersonic vehicle, the complex turbulence generated around the window of star sensor causes starlight deflection, thus lead to the centroid offset of navigation star in the star-map imaging. Starting from characteristics of the flow field, the deflection effects of starlight transmission are researched to solve. At first, based on Reynolds average, the model of flow around the window was established to obtain the density distribution that can be divided into mean-time and fluctuation flow field to analyze the whole field. On this basis, the starlight is traced by using the Runge-Kutta method, while taking the principle of refraction, the evaluation index for starlight deflection is derived to characterize the deflection effect of the field. Finally, verify the applicability of the evaluation index through comparative analysis and also study the impact on deflection effect with the follow situations: different installation locations of star sensor, different angles of incident ray, different Mach numbers and wavelengths of starlight. The study provides the predictive information for centroid offset of navigation star in star-map pre processing to improve the efficiency of star-map matching, and also provides the best choice for the work of the star sensor..

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOptical Design and Testing VI
EditorsChunlei Du, Jose Sasian, Yongtian Wang, Kimio Tatsuno
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781628413458
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
EventOptical Design and Testing VI - Beijing, China
Duration: 9 Oct 201410 Oct 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9272
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceOptical Design and Testing VI
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period9/10/1410/10/14

Keywords

  • Aero-optical effects
  • Deflection effect
  • Hypersonic
  • Ray-tracing
  • Refractive index
  • Reynolds average
  • Runge-Kutta method
  • Starlight navigation

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