Nov 10, 2014
Hard x-ray telescopes to be onboard ASTRO-H
Applied Optics
- Volume
- 53
- Number
- 32
- First page
- 7664
- Last page
- 7676
- Language
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1364/AO.53.007664
© 2014 Optical Society of America. The new Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite, ASTRO-H, will carry two identical hard x-ray telescopes (HXTs), which cover the energy range of 5 to 80 keV. The HXT mirrors employ tightly nested, conically approximated thin-foil Wolter-I optics, and the mirror surfaces are coated with Pt/C depth-graded multilayers to enhance the hard x-ray effective area by means of Bragg reflection. The HXT comprises foils 120-450 mm in diameter and 200 mm in length, with a focal length of 12 m. To obtain a large effective area, 213 aluminum foils 0.2 mm in thickness are tightly nested confocally. The requirements for HXT are a total effective area of >300 cm2 at 30 keV and an angular resolution of <1.70 in halfpower diameter (HPD). Fabrication of two HXTs has been completed, and the x-ray performance of each HXT was measured at a synchrotron radiation facility, SPring-8 BL20B2 in Japan. Angular resolutions (HPD) of 1.9′ and 1.8′ at 30 keV were obtained for the full telescopes of HXT-1 and HXT-2, respectively. The total effective area of the two HXTs at 30 keV is 349 cm2.
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- DOI : 10.1364/AO.53.007664
- ISSN : 1559-128X
- eISSN : 2155-3165
- Pubmed ID : 25402988
- SCOPUS ID : 84909957841