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Silicon pore optics x-ray mirror development for the Athena telescope
Maximilien J. Collon,Ljubiša Babić,Nicolas M. Barrière,Alex Bayerle,Luigi Castiglione,Noë Eenkhoorn,David Girou,Ramses Günther,Enrico Hauser,Yvette Jenkins,Boris Landgraf,Laurens Keek,Ben Okma,Gregorio Mendoza Serrano,Aniket Thete,Giuseppe Vacanti,Sjoerd Verhoeckx,Mark Vervest,Luc Voruz,Marco W. Beijersbergen,Marcos Bavdaz,Eric Wille,Ivo Ferreira,Sebastiaan Fransen,Brian Shortt,Mark Olde Riekerink,Jeroen Haneveld,Arenda Koelewijn,Maurice Wijnperle,Jan Joost Lankwarden,Bart Schurink,Ronald Start,Coen van Baren,Paul Hieltjes,Jan-Willem den Herder,Evelyn Handick,Michael Krumrey,Miranda Bradshaw,Vadim Burwitz,Sonny Massahi,Sara Svendsen,Desiree Della Monica Ferreira,Finn Erland Christensen,Giuseppe Valsecchi,Geeta Kailla,William Mundon,Gavin Philips,Kevin Ball +47 more
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In this article, the authors present the status of the technology and of the mass production capabilities, show latest performance results, and discuss the next steps in the development of the system.Abstract:
Athena, the largest space-based x-ray telescope to be flown by the European Space Agency, uses a new modular technology to assemble its 2.5 m diameter lens. The lens will consist of several hundreds of smaller x-ray lenslets, called mirror modules, which each consist of up to 76 stacked mirror pairs. Those mirror modules are arranged in circles in a large optics structure and will focus x-ray photons with an energy of 0.5 to 10 keV at a distance of 12 m onto the detectors of Athena. The point-spread function (PSF) of the optic shall achieve a half-energy width (HEW) of 5” at an energy of 1 keV, with an effective area of about 1.4 m2, corresponding to several hundred m2 of super-polished mirrors with a roughness of about 0.3 nm and a thickness of down to 110 µm. This paper will present the status of the technology and of the mass production capabilities, show latest performance results and discuss the next steps in the development.read more
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TL;DR: The ATHENA (Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics) mission studies and technology preparation are continuing to progress as discussed by the authors, and the optics for this future space observatory is based on the Silicon Pore Optics (SPO), and is being evolved in a joint effort by industry, research institutions and ESA.
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New x-ray parallel beam facility XPBF 2.0 for the characterization of silicon pore optics
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new X-ray parallel beam facility (XPBF 2.0) has been installed in the laboratory of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt at the synchrotron radiation facility BESSY II in Berlin to characterize silicon pore optics (SPOs) for the future Xray observatory ATHENA.
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Science requirements and optimization of the silicon pore optics design for the Athena mirror
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