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Caption: Figure 8.
Baseline HWO segmented and obscured telescope apertures: “off-axis” (left), “on-axis” (right). The area of the HWO on-axis aperture is 21.69, the HWO off-axis aperture is 22.53. The relative difference in area is 1 − 21.69/22.53 = 3.7%.
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