Conference paper
Simulating X-ray telescopes with McXtrace: A case study of ATHENA's optics
National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark1
Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark2
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark3
Neutrons and X-rays for Materials Physics, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark4
European Space Agency - ESA5
National Institute for Astrophysics6
University of Copenhagen7
We use the X-ray ray-tracing package McXtrace to simulate the performance of X-ray telescopes based on Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) technologies. We use as reference the design of the optics of the planned X-ray mission Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics (ATHENA) which is designed as a single X-ray telescope populated with stacked SPO substrates forming mirror modules to focus X-ray photons.
We show that is possible to simulate in detail the SPO pores and qualify the use of McXtrace for in-depth analysis of in-orbit performance and laboratory X-ray test results.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Pages: | 990576-990576-8 |
| Proceedings: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016 |
| ISBN: | 1510601899 , 1510601902 , 9781510601895 and 9781510601901 |
| ISSN: | 1996756x and 0277786x |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2233060 |
| ORCIDs: | Della Monica Ferreira, Desiree , Bergbäck Knudsen, Erik , Westergaard, Niels Jørgen Stenfeldt , Christensen, Finn Erland , Massahi, Sonny and 0000-0003-4282-756X |
