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Wide-field X-ray Optics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

René Hudec
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, 251 65 Ondřejov, Czech Republic
Adolf Inneman
Affiliation:
KOMA, Composite Materials, K lesu 965, CZ-142 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic
Ladislav Pina
Affiliation:
Faculty of Nuclear Engineering, Czech Technical University, Břehová 7, CZ-115 19 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Petr Řehák
Affiliation:
Development-Optical Workshop of the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Skálova 89, CZ-511 01 Turnov, Czech Republic
Paul Gorenstein
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Abstract

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Classical X-ray mirror optics usually has a limited Field of View (FoV) of ∼ 1°. Wide-field imaging can be achieved by lobster-eye type reflecting X-ray optics. We summarise several different approaches and suggest an innovative technology for the production of X-ray reflecting flats and cells necessary to develop one- or two-dimensional wide-field X-ray optics. The technology is based on double-sided, replicated reflecting foils produced by electroforming and CF/composite technologies.

Type
All-Sky Monitoring
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1995

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