1. Studies of print-through and reflectivity of x-ray mirrors using thin carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic
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Toshihiro Iwase, Satoshi Sugita, Hideyo Kunieda, Naoki Ishida, Sasagu Tachibana, Kazuaki Kishimoto, Hironori Matsumoto, Takashi Ishikawa, Shun Yoshikawa, Hisamitsu Awaki, Shigetaka Saji, Kenya Yoshioka, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Hiromichi Akiyama, Yoshio Suzuki, Takayoshi Hamada, Naoki Shima, Shin Utsunomiya, Masato Maejima, Tomohiro Kamiya, Takuya Miyazawa, Keiji Ogi, and Kentaro Uesugi
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010302 applied physics ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Mechanical Engineering ,X-ray ,Synchrotron radiation ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,X-ray telescope ,Plane mirror ,Surface finish ,Fibre-reinforced plastic ,Print-through ,01 natural sciences ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,010309 optics ,Optics ,Space and Planetary Science ,Control and Systems Engineering ,0103 physical sciences ,business ,Instrumentation ,Curing (chemistry) - Abstract
We fabricated x-ray mirrors from carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic with a tightly nested design for x-ray satellites, using a replication method for the surfaces. We studied the effects of print-through on the mirror surface as a function of curing temperature. With room temperature curing, the root-mean-square value of the surface error was 0.8 nm. The reflectivity was measured using 8-keV x-rays, and the roughness was calculated as 0.5 nm by model fitting-comparable to that of the ASTRO-H/HXT mirror. We verified the long-term stability of the mirror surface over 6 months. We fabricated Wolter type-I quadrant-shell mirrors with a diameter of 200 mm and performed x-ray measurements at BL20B2 in the SPring-8 synchrotron radiation facility. We obtained reflection images of the mirrors using a 20-keV x-ray spot beam with a slit size of 10 × 1 mm in the radial and circumferential directions, respectively. The averaged half-power diameter (HPD) of the images in one mirror was 1.2 arc min in the circumferential center of the mirror and 3.0 arc min at the edge. In the spot images with a smaller slit size of 10 × 0.2 mm, we achieved an HPD of 0.38 arc min in the best case., 形態: カラー図版あり, Physical characteristics: Original contains color illustrations, 資料番号: PA1610075000
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- 2016
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