Conference proceeding
Thermal forming of substrates for the x-ray surveyor telescope
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol.9965, pp.99650C-99650C-6
09/08/2016
DOI: 10.1117/12.2239223
Abstract
In this paper we review the progress and current status of thermal forming activities at SAO, highlighting the most relevant technical problems and the way to solve them. These activities are devoted to the realization of mirror substrates for the X-ray surveyor mission concept, an observatory with Chandra-like angular resolution and 30 times more effective area or larger. The technology under development at SAO is based on the deposition of piezoelectric material on the back of the substrates. About 8000 mirror segments, with initial quality of 10 arcseconds or better are required for the telescope.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Thermal forming of substrates for the x-ray surveyor telescope
- Creators
- Vincenzo Cotroneo - Harvard UniversityRyan Allured - Harvard UniversityPaul B Reid - Harvard UniversityCasey T DeRoo - Harvard UniversityDaniel A Schwartz - Harvard UniversityVanessa Marquez - Harvard UniversityAlexey A Vikhlinin - Harvard UniversityMarta Civitani - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)Bianca Salmaso - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)Giovanni Pareschi - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
- Contributors
- Stephen L O'Dell (Editor) - NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. (United States)Ali M Khounsary (Editor) - Illinois Institute of Technology
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol.9965, pp.99650C-99650C-6
- Publisher
- SPIE
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.2239223
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
- eISSN
- 1996-756X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/08/2016
- Academic Unit
- University College Courses; Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199787602771
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