Silicon pore x-ray optics for IXO

Maximilien J. Collon; Ramses Günther; Marcelo Ackermann; Rakesh Partapsing; Giuseppe Vacanti; Marco W. Beijersbergen; Marcos Bavdaz; Eric Wille; Kotska Wallace; Mark Olde Riekerink; Bob Lansdorp; Lennart de Vrede; Coen van Baren; Peter Müller; Michael Krumrey; Michael Freyberg

doi:10.1117/12.858166

29 July 2010 Silicon pore x-ray optics for IXO

Maximilien J. Collon, Ramses Günther, Marcelo Ackermann, Rakesh Partapsing, Giuseppe Vacanti, Marco W. Beijersbergen, Marcos Bavdaz, Eric Wille, Kotska Wallace, Mark Olde Riekerink, Bob Lansdorp, Lennart de Vrede, Coen van Baren, Peter Müller, Michael Krumrey, Michael Freyberg

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Proceedings Volume 7732, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 77321F (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858166
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Silicon pore optics is a technology developed to enable future large area X-ray telescopes, such as the International X-ray Observatory (IXO), a candidate mission in the ESA Space Science Programme 'Cosmic Visions 2015-2025'. IXO uses nested mirrors in Wolter-I configuration to focus grazing incidence X-ray photons on a detector plane. The IXO optics will have to meet stringent performance requirements including an effective area of >2.5 m² at 1.25 keV and >0.65 m² at 6 keV and angular resolution better than 5 arc seconds. To achieve the collecting area requires a total polished mirror surface area of ~1300 m² with a surface roughness better than 0.5 nm rms. By using commercial high-quality 12" silicon wafers which are diced, structured, wedged, coated, bent and stacked, the stringent performance requirements of IXO can be attained without any costly polishing steps. Two of these stacks are then assembled into a co-aligned mirror module, which is a complete X-ray imaging system. Included in the mirror module are the isostatic mounting points, providing a reliable interface to the telescope. Hundreds of such mirror modules are finally integrated into petals, and mounted onto the spacecraft to form an X-ray optic of approximately 4 m in diameter. In this paper we will present the silicon pore optics mass manufacturing process and latest X-ray test results of mirror modules mounted in flight configuration.

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Maximilien J. Collon, Ramses Günther, Marcelo Ackermann, Rakesh Partapsing, Giuseppe Vacanti, Marco W. Beijersbergen, Marcos Bavdaz, Eric Wille, Kotska Wallace, Mark Olde Riekerink, Bob Lansdorp, Lennart de Vrede, Coen van Baren, Peter Müller, Michael Krumrey, and Michael Freyberg "Silicon pore x-ray optics for IXO", Proc. SPIE 7732, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 77321F (29 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858166

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