Progress Toward Light Weight High Angular Resolution Multilayer Coated Optics

Ulmer, M. P.; Graham, Michael E.; Vaynman, Semyon; Echt, J.; Farber, M. O.; Ehlert, S.; Varlese, S.

doi:10.1007/s10686-006-9032-7

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“…• The resonance frequency of the assembled ceramic mirror shells is higher than the nickel shells, useful in avoiding risks of damages due to vibrations generated during launch. Others have looked at similar approaches for light weight optics 11,12,13 .…”

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Development of light weight replicated x-ray optics

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Nearly all X-ray astronomy missions of the past 25 years have utilized grazing incidence telescopes which use the principle of nested shells to maximize the collecting area. Most of these missions have had multiple X-ray telescopes, e.g. ASCA 1 , Beppo-SAX 2 , Suzaku 3 , XMM-Newton 4 , NuStar 5 , and also upcoming missions Astro-H 6 and SpectrumRöentgen-Gamma 7 . Multiple telescopes, which favor replication, may continue to be the appropriate architecture of some future missions. XMM-Newton and the upcoming Spectrum-Röentgen-Gamma mission use an electroformed nickel replication (ENR) process to fabricate their X-ray telescope mirror shells, a process which has achieved the best angular resolution to date for replicated telescopes. We are developing a process to fabricate metal-ceramic replicated optics which will be lighter weight than current nickel replicated technology. They will be stiffer than the XMM mirrors, which we expect will result in better angular resolution. Recent results on fabrication and testing of these optics is presented.

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