1. Silicon pore optics mirror module production and testing
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Collon, Maximilien J., Vacanti, Giuseppe, Barriere, Nicolas, Landgraf, Boris, Guenther, Ramses, Vervest, Mark, Van Der Hoeven, Roy, Chatbi, Abdel, Girou, David, Sforzini, Jessica, Beijersbergen, Marco W., Bavdaz, Marcos, Wille, Eric, Fransen, Sebastiaan, Shortt, Brian, Ferreira, Ivo, Haneveld, Jeroen, Booysen, Karin, Koelewijn, Arenda, Wijnperle, Maurice, Lankwarden, Jan Joost, Van Baren, Coen, Eigenraam, Alexander, Den Herder, Jan Willem, Müller, Peter, Krumrey, Michael, Burwitz, Vadim, Pareschi, Giovanni, Massahi, Sonny, Ferreira, Desirée Della Monica, Christensen, Finn E., Valsecchi, Giuseppe, Oliver, Paul, Chequer, Ian, Ball, Kevin, Zuknik, Karl Heinz, Vernani, Dervis, ITA, GBR, DEU, DNK, NLD, CHE, den Herder, Jan-Willem A., Nikzad, Shouleh, and Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
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Computer science ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,wafer ,X-ray optics ,X-ray telescope ,02 engineering and technology ,SPO ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,X-ray astronomy ,010309 optics ,Optics ,Stack (abstract data type) ,0103 physical sciences ,Focal length ,Angular resolution ,Image resolution ,X-ray telescopes ,business.industry ,Antenna aperture ,stack ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,silicon ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,ATHENA ,pore optics ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) has been established as a new type of x-ray optics that enables future x-ray observatories such as Athena. SPO is being developed at cosine with the European Space Agency (ESA) and academic and industrial partners. The optics modules are lightweight, yet stiff, high-resolution x-ray optics, that shall allow missions to reach an unprecedentedly large effective area of several square meters, operating in the 0.2 - 12 keV band with an angular resolution better than 5 arc seconds. In this paper we are going to discuss the latest generation production facilities and we are going to present results of the production of mirror modules for a focal length of 12 m, including x-ray test results.
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- 2018
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