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Toward Large-Area Sub-Arcsecond X-Ray Telescopes IIIn order to advance significantly scientific objectives, future x-ray astronomy missions will likely call for x-ray telescopes with large aperture areas (approx. = 3 sq m) and fine angular resolution (approx. = 1"). 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 (approx. = 600 sq m) of lightweight (approx. = 2 kg/sq m areal density) high-quality mirrors, at an acceptable cost (approx. = 1 M$/sq m 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.
Document ID
20160014505
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Stephen L ODell
(Marshall Space Flight Center Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, United States)
Ryan Allured
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Andrew O Ames
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Michael P Biskach
(Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (United States) Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
David M Broadway
(Marshall Space Flight Center Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, United States)
Ricardo J Bruni
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
David Burrows
(Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania, United States)
Jian Cao
(Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, United States)
Brandon D Chalifoux
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Kai-wing Chan
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, Maryland, United States)
Yip-Wah Chung
(Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, United States)
Vincenzo Cotroneo
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Ronald F Elsner
(Marshall Space Flight Center Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, United States)
Jessica A Gaskin
(Marshall Space Flight Center Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, United States)
Mikhail V Gubarev
(Marshall Space Flight Center Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, United States)
Ralf K Heilmann
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Edward Hertz
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Thomas N Jackson
(Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania, United States)
Kiranmayee Kilaru
(Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Maryland, United States)
Jeffery J Kolodziejczak
(Marshall Space Flight Center Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, United States)
Ryan S McClelland
(Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (United States) Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
Brian D Ramsey
(Marshall Space Flight Center Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, United States)
Paul B Reid
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Raul E Riveros
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County Baltimore, Maryland, United States)
Jacqueline M Roche
(Marshall Space Flight Center Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, United States)
Suzanne E Romaine
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Timo T Saha
(Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
Mark L Schattenburg
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Daniel A Schwartz
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Eric D Schwartz
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Peter M Solly
(Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (United States) Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
Susan E Trolier-McKinstry
(Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania, United States)
Mellville P Ulmer
(Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, United States)
Alexey Vikhlilin
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Margeaux L Wallace
(Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania, United States)
William W Zhang
(Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
Date Acquired
December 6, 2016
Publication Date
January 1, 2016
Publication Information
Publication: Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher: SPIE
Volume: 9965
Subject Category
Astronomy
Optics
Report/Patent Number
MSFC-E-DAA-TN36428
Meeting Information
Meeting: Adaptive X-Ray Optics IV
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: US
Start Date: August 28, 2016
End Date: September 1, 2016
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG06EO90A
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG12CR31C
WBS: WBS 244904
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNM13AA03A
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
Shi Ye
X-ray telescopes
Youwei Yao
William W Zang
differential deposition
Heng Zuo
Xiaoli Wang
David L Windt
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