Open AccessThe Pinhole/Occulter Facility
Author(s) -
H. S. Hudson,
John M. Davis
Publication year - 1989
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 - 10.1117/12.962590
Subject(s) - pinhole (optics) , optics , environmental science , physics
To image X-radiation efficiently at energies above about 10 keV requires the use of "shadow optics" techniques. The Pinhole/Occulter Facility (P/OF) represents an application of these techniques for observations in high-energy astrophysics, especially the study of solar coronal activity in hard X-rays and γ-rays. P/OF will achieve angular resolutions on the order of 0.2 arc s for an instrument deployment length of 50 m. Because of this large structural scale, P/OF has been proposed as an attached payload for the Space Station. In the meanwhile, several smaller-scale instruments are being developed.
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