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Alignment system for full-shell replicated x-ray mirrors

Author(s) -

Mikhail V. Gubarev,

Brian D. Ramsey,

William Arnold

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1996-756X

pISSN - 0277-786X

DOI - 10.1117/12.823848

Subject(s) - x ray optics , x ray telescope , optics , physics , shell (structure) , adaptive optics , image resolution , deformable mirror , x ray astronomy , development (topology) , replication (statistics) , angular resolution (graph drawing) , computer science , x ray , telescope , materials science , composite material , mathematical analysis , statistics , mathematics , combinatorics

We are developing grazing-incidence x-ray optics for high-energy astrophysical applications using the electroformnickel replication process. For space-based applications these optics must be light-weight yet stable, which dictates the use of very-thin-walled full-shell mirrors. Such shells have been fabricated with resolution as good as 11arcsec for hard x-rays, and technology enhancements under development at MSFC are aimed at producing mirrors with resolution better than 10 arcsec. The challenge, however, is to preserve this resolution during mounting and assembly. We present here a status report on a mounting and alignment system currently under development at Marshall Space Flight Center designed to meet this challenge.

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