James R. Mazzarella

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 paper, it is shown that balancing the coating distortion either by coating films with tensile and compressive stresses, or on both sides of the mirrors is not sufficient and that heating the mirror in a moderately high temperature can relax the coated films reasonably well.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on the approach, strategy and status of the x-ray optics development program whose objective is to meet these technical challenges at modest cost to enable future X-ray missions, including small Explorer missions, probe class missions in the near term, and large flagship mission in the long term.

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.