Conference paper
Silicon pore optics for the ATHENA telescope
Cosine Measurement Systems1
Media Lario S.r.l.2
ESTEC3
Micronit Microfluidics B.V.4
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research5
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt6
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics7
National Institute for Astrophysics8
National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark9
Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark10
...and 0 moreSilicon Pore Optics is a high-energy optics technology, invented to enable the next generation of high-resolution, large area X-ray telescopes such as the ATHENA observatory, a European large (L) class mission with a launch date of 2028. The technology development is carried out by a consortium of industrial and academic partners and focuses on building an optics with a focal length of 12 m that shall achieve an angular resolution better than 5”. So far we have built optics with a focal length of 50 m and 20 m. This paper presents details of the work carried out to build silicon stacks for a 12 m optics and to integrate them into mirror modules.
It will also present results of x-ray tests taking place at PTB’s XPBF with synchrotron radiation and the PANTER test facility.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Pages: | 990528-990528-8 |
| Proceedings: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016 |
| Series: | Proceedings of Spie |
| ISBN: | 1510601899 , 1510601902 , 9781510601895 and 9781510601901 |
| ISSN: | 1996756x and 0277786x |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2234427 |
| ORCIDs: | Massahi, Sonny and Christensen, Finn Erland |
