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Paper Abstract
A two-reflection optical design for nested X-ray telescopes is described in which the two grazing incidence angles are
equal for each ray collected by each mirror, so that the total reflectivity is maximized. A specific design is discussed and
its optical performances are compared to a reference type I Wolter optics. In the selected design scenario, a 16%
reduction in the number of mirror shells and a 6% increase of the effective area between 1 keV and 10 keV is achieved,
along with a small 2.6% decrease of the angular resolution over 12 armin field of view.
Paper Details
Date Published: 20 September 2007
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 6688, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy III, 66880B (20 September 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.736413
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6688:
Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy III
Stephen L. O'Dell; Giovanni Pareschi, Editor(s)
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 6688, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy III, 66880B (20 September 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.736413
Show Author Affiliations
Fabio E. Zocchi, Media Lario Technologies (Italy)
Dervis Vernani, Media Lario Technologies (Italy)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6688:
Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy III
Stephen L. O'Dell; Giovanni Pareschi, Editor(s)
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