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Development of high resolution hard x-ray telescope with multi-layer coatings
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Gorenstein, Paul Brinton, John C. Technical Monitor |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Description | This is the annual report for the third year of a three-year program. Previous annual reports have described progress achieved in the first and second years. The major objective of this program is the development of a focusing hard X-ray telescope with moderately high angular resolution, i.e. comparable to the telescopes of XMM-Newton. The key ingredients of the telescope are a depth graded multilayer coatings and electroformed nickel substrates that are considerably lighter weight than those of previous missions such as XMM-Newton, which have had conventional single metal layer reflective coatings and have operated at much lower energy X-rays. The ultimate target mission for this technology is the Hard X-Ray Telescope (HXT) of the Constellation X-Ray Mission. However, it is applicable to potential SMEX and MIDEX programs as well. We are building upon technology that has proven to be successful in the XMM-Newton and SWIFT missions. The improvements that we are adding are a significant reduction in mass without much loss of angular resolution and an order of magnitude extension of the bandwidth through the use of multilayer coatings. The distinctive feature of this approach compared to those of other hard X-ray telescope programs is that we expect the angular resolution to be superior than telescopes made by other methods thanks to the structural integrity of the substrates. They are thin walled complete cylinders of revolution with a Wolter Type 1 figure; the front half is a parabola, the rear half a hyperbola. |
| File Size | 279670 |
| Page Count | 5 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20050123575 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1tf4rt87 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2005-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astronomy Metal Coatings Optical Materials Parabolas X Ray Astronomy Mirrors X Ray Telescopes Hyperbolas Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
