Toward large-area sub-arcsecond x-ray telescopes II

Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
O'Dell, Stephen L.
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Allured, Ryan
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Ames, Andrew O.
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Biskach, Michael P.
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Broadway, David M.
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Bruni, Ricardo J.
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Burrows, David N.
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Cao, Jian
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Chalifoux, Brandon D.
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Chan, Kai-Wing
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Chung, Yip-Wah
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Elsner, Ronald F.
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Gaskin, Jessica A.
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Gubarev, Mikhail V.
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Heilmann, Ralf K.
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Hertz, Edward
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Jackson, Thomas N.
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Kilaru, Kiranmayee
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Kolodziejczak, Jeffrey J.
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McClelland, Ryan S.
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Ramsey, Brian D.
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Reid, Paul B.
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Riveros, Raul E.
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Roche, Jacqueline M.
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Romaine, Suzanne E.
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Saha, Timo T.
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Schattenburg, Mark L.
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Schwartz, Daniel A.
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Schwartz, Eric D.
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Solly, Peter M.
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Trolier-McKinstry, Susan
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Ulmer, Melville P.
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Vikhlinin, Alexey
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Wallace, Margeaux L.
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Wang, Xiaoli
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Windt, David L.
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Yao, Youwei
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Ye, Shi
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Zhang, William W.
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Zuo, Heng
DOI
Abstract
In order to advance significantly scientific objectives, future x-ray astronomy missions will likely call for x-ray telescopes with large aperture areas (≍ 3 m2) and fine angular resolution (≍ 12). Achieving such performance is programmatically and technologically challenging due to the mass and envelope constraints of space-borne telescopes and to the need for densely nested grazing-incidence optics. Such an x-ray telescope will require precision fabrication, alignment, mounting, and assembly of large areas (≍ 600 m2) of lightweight (≍ 2 kg/m2 areal density) high-quality mirrors, at an acceptable cost (≍ 1 M$/m2 of mirror surface area). This paper reviews relevant programmatic and technological issues, as well as possible approaches for addressing these issues-including direct fabrication of monocrystalline silicon mirrors, active (in-space adjustable) figure correction of replicated mirrors, static post-fabrication correction using ion implantation, differential erosion or deposition, and coating-stress manipulation of thin substrates....
Coverage
Adaptive X-Ray Optics IV
All editors
O'Dell, Stephen L.; Khounsary, Ali M.
Series
Volume
9965
Start page
996507
Conferenece
Adaptive X-Ray Optics IV
Conferenece place
San Diego, California, United States
Conferenece date
28 August - 1 September, 2016
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Issn Identifier
0277-786X
Ads BibCode
2016SPIE.9965E..07O
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open.access
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