Simbol-X Hard X-ray Focusing Mirrors: Results Obtained During the Phase A Study

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العنوان: Simbol-X Hard X-ray Focusing Mirrors: Results Obtained During the Phase A Study
المؤلفون: G. Tagliaferri, S. Basso, G. Borghi, W. Burkert, O. Citterio, M. Civitani, P. Conconi, V. Cotroneo, M. Freyberg, D. Garoli, P. Gorenstein, G. Hartner, V. Mattarello, A. Orlandi, G. Pareschi, S. Romaine, D. Spiga, G. Valsecchi, D. Vernani, Jéro^me Rodriguez, Phillippe Ferrando
بيانات النشر: arXiv, 2009.
سنة النشر: 2009
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics, Fabrication, Image quality, business.industry, Antenna aperture, Phase (waves), FOS: Physical sciences, Quality (physics), Optics, Electroforming, Angular resolution, Sensitivity (control systems), business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
الوصف: Simbol-X will push grazing incidence imaging up to 80 keV, providing a strong improvement both in sensitivity and angular resolution compared to all instruments that have operated so far above 10 keV. The superb hard X-ray imaging capability will be guaranteed by a mirror module of 100 electroformed Nickel shells with a multilayer reflecting coating. Here we will describe the technogical development and solutions adopted for the fabrication of the mirror module, that must guarantee an Half Energy Width (HEW) better than 20 arcsec from 0.5 up to 30 keV and a goal of 40 arcsec at 60 keV. During the phase A, terminated at the end of 2008, we have developed three engineering models with two, two and three shells, respectively. The most critical aspects in the development of the Simbol-X mirrors are i) the production of the 100 mandrels with very good surface quality within the timeline of the mission; ii) the replication of shells that must be very thin (a factor of 2 thinner than those of XMM-Newton) and still have very good image quality up to 80 keV; iii) the development of an integration process that allows us to integrate these very thin mirrors maintaining their intrinsic good image quality. The Phase A study has shown that we can fabricate the mandrels with the needed quality and that we have developed a valid integration process. The shells that we have produced so far have a quite good image quality, e.g. HEW
Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at the conference "2nd International Simbol-X Symposium", Paris, 2-5 december, 2008
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.0903.2483
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قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.0903.2483