Ai Numata

TL;DR: An approach to build an x-ray mirror assembly that can meet Lynx’s requirements of high-angular resolution, large effective area, light weight, short production schedule, and low-production cost is described.

TL;DR: In this article, an approach based on the precision polishing of mono-crystalline silicon to fabricate thin and lightweight X-ray mirrors of the highest figure quality and micro-roughness was proposed.

TL;DR: A technology development program whose objective is to meet this three-fold requirement of making astronomical X-ray optics: angular resolution, photon-collecting area, and production cost, based on precision polishing of monocrystalline silicon for making a large number of mirror segments and on the metashell approach to integrate them into a mirror assembly.

TL;DR: In this article, a reflective coating by magnetron sputtering deposition onto precisely-fabricated thin X-ray mirrors was developed to remove distortion induced by the coating and then keep their surface pro les.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a summary of the flight XRC performance as well as co-alignment results of the 56 XRCs on the flight payload as it is important to estimate the total effective for astronomical observations.