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Thomas Kester
Researcher at Marshall Space Flight Center
Publications - 19
Citations - 164
Thomas Kester is an academic researcher from Marshall Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Metrology & Fabrication. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 18 publications receiving 156 citations.
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Mirror technology development for the International X-ray Observatory mission
W. W. Zhang,Martina Atanassova,Michael P. Biskach,Peter Blake,Glenn Byron,Kai-Wing Chan,Kai-Wing Chan,Tyler Evans,Charles M. Fleetwood,Michael D. Hill,M. Hong,Lalit Jalota,Lalit Jalota,Linette D. Kolos,J. M. Mazzarella,Ryan S. McClelland,L. Olsen,Robert Petre,David W. Robinson,Timo T. Saha,Marton V. Sharpe,Mikhail Gubarev,William D. Jones,Thomas Kester,Steve O'Dell,David Caldwell,William N. Davis,Mark D. Freeman,William A. Podgorski,P. Reid,Suzanne Romaine +30 more
TL;DR: The International X-ray Observatory (IXO) as mentioned in this paper is designed to conduct spectroscopic, imaging, and timing studies of astrophysical phenomena that take place as near as in the solar system and as far as in early universe.
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Calibration of a Vertical-Scan Long Trace Profiler at MSFC
TL;DR: In this paper, the vertical-scan long trace profiler (LTP) is used to measure the surface figure of replicated shell mirrors and a few sources of systematic error are discussed.
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The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrograph (MaGIXS)
Ken Kobayashi,Jonathan Cirtain,Leon Golub,Amy R. Winebarger,Edward Hertz,Peter Cheimets,David Caldwell,Kelly E. Korreck,Brian M. Robinson,Patrick J. Reardon,Thomas Kester,Charles W. Griffith,Mark Young +12 more
TL;DR: The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrograph (MaGIXS) as mentioned in this paper is a sounding rocket experiment designed to observe the solar corona for the first time.
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Large-mirror figure measurement by optical profilometry techniques
TL;DR: In this article, the use of a slope measuring scanning interferometer system, the Long Trace Profiler (LTP), in measuring the figure error of large surfaces, particularly those that have extremely long radii of curvature in the tangential direction, is discussed.
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Development of a direct fabrication technique for full-shell x-ray optics
Mikhail Gubarev,J. Kolodziejczak,Charlie Griffith,Jacqueline Roche,W. S. Smith,Thomas Kester,Carolyn Atkins,William Arnold,B. Ramsey +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a full-shell direct fabrication approach using modern robotic polishing machines has been proposed for producing high resolution, light-weight and affordable x-ray mirrors that can be nested to produce large collecting area.