Silicon pore optics mirror module production and testing

Collon, Maximilien J.; Vacanti, Giuseppe; Barrière, Nicolas M.; Landgraf, Boris; Guenther, Ramses; Vervest, Mark; Hoeven, Roy van der; Chatbi, Abdel; Girou, David; Sforzini, Jessica; Beijersbergen, Marco W.; Bavdaz, Marcos; Wille, Eric; Fransen, Sebastiaan; Shortt, Brian; Haneveld, Jeroen; Booysen, Karin; Koelewijn, Arenda; Wijnperle, Maurice; Baren, Coen van; Eigenraam, Alexander; Müller, P.; Krumrey, Michael; Burwitz, V.; Spiga, D.; Pareschi, G.; Massahi, Sonny; Christensen, Finn Erland; Ferreira, Desiree Della Monica; Valsecchi, Giuseppe; Oliver, Paul; Chequer, Ian; Ball, Kevin; Zuknik, Karl-Heinz

doi:10.1117/12.2314479

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“…This was done end of the 90s for XEUS [11] (focal length 50 m, effective area 6 m 2 (30 m 2 on ISS) at 1 keV) for Ni shells and starting in the mid 2000s for IXO [12] (focal length 20 m, effective area 3 m 2 at 1 keV). A new optics technology, the Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) [7][8] was developed by ESA in conjunction with the company Cosine to make it possible develop light weight modular optics that can be used in large collecting area missions. From 2012 and extension to PANTER [12] made it possible to obtain in-focus measurements of 20 m focal SPO Mirror modules.…”

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X-ray testing at PANTER of optics for the ATHENA and Arcus Missions

Burwitz

Bavdaz²,

Wille³

et al. 2019

International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2018

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Currently for the European Space Agency (ESA) ATHENA [1,2] mission Silicon Pore Optic (SPO) [3][4][5][6][7][8] Mirror Modules (MM) with a focal length of f = 12 m, are being developed and tested. The SPO MMs are also the baseline optic for the NASA medium explorer high-resolution spectroscopy mission Arcus [9-10] with f = 12 m that is currently undergoing a phase A study. SPOs are currently being tested at both the PTB laboratory of the BESSY synchrotron facility in Berlin using an X-ray pencil beam and the PANTER X-ray test facility in Neuried of the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching using a long vacuum beamline (distance source to optic ~120 m). The different types of measurements performed at PANTER to characterise the ATHENA and Arcus optics will be discussed. This will be done on the level of an X-ray optical unit (XOU) composed of both a primary and secondary High Performance Optic (HPO) stack, a mirror module (MM) composed of two XOUs, small (<4 MMs) and large (< 25 MM) petals, and the complete integrated optic Athena (700-1000 MMs) and Arcus (4 petals each with 38 MMs). The main set of tests that are currently done at PANTER make full use the possibility to fully-illuminate single XOUs, MMs, and petals to determine their optical characteristics such as the half energy width of the point spread function as well as the effective area and the vignetting function at different energies. To ensure that the measurements, that are required to demonstrate the performance of ATHENA, are possible, a description of recent and upcoming upgrades to the PANTER X-ray test facility will be given. Finally, a status update on the progress on designing the new facility to be used to test and calibrate the complete ATHENA mirror will be presented.

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X-ray testing at PANTER of optics for the ATHENA and Arcus Missions

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Bavdaz²,

Wille³

et al. 2019

International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2018

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“…The MSE is made of Titanium and can accommodate up to three MMs spaced by 7.25° in azimuth. Two MMs were delivered by Cosine [12] and measured at PANTER facility in Munich to verify the performances and the focal length at 1.49 keV before integration. After focus scan, the best x-FWHM was measured for both MMs at 11.963mm.…”

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ATHENA Telescope: alignment and integration of SPO mirror modules

Valsecchi

Marioni

Bianucci

et al. 2019

International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2018

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ATHENA (Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics) is the next high-energy astrophysical mission of the European Space Agency currently planned to be launched in the early 2030s, as part of its Cosmic Vision program, on the scientific topic of "Hot and Energetic Universe". The optics technology is based on the Silicon Pore Optics (SPO). About 678 SPO mirror modules will have to be integrated and co-aligned onto the optical bench of the Mirror Assembly Module (MAM) of ATHENA. This activity will have to be completed in about two years. Media Lario leads an industrial and scientific team that has developed the process to align and integrate the SPO Mirror module with an accuracy better than 1 arcsec. The process is based on position of the centroid of the point spread function produced by each mirror module when illuminated by a collimated planewave at 218 nm taken at 12 m focal length. Experimental tests, using two SPO mirror modules, and correlation with X-ray measurement at the PANTER test facility in Münich have demonstrated that this process meets the accuracy requirement. It was also demonstrated, that a mirror module can be removed again from the MAM, and re-installed, without compromising the adjacent mirror modules. This technique allows arbitrary integration sequence and integration of two Mirror Modules per day. Moreover, it enables monitoring the telescope point spread function during the whole integration phase.

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“…A precision robot will be used to achieve alignment in the remaining three DoF (x,ẑ, and yaw) by referencing the sides of each grating substrate and by maintaining a precise global coordinate system during the stacking process. This alignment methodology is similar to that utilized for the silicon pore optic technology developed by cosine Research B.V. 15 a collaborator on these alignment efforts.…”

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