Optical performance of the X-ray telescope for the XL-Calibur experimentShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Space Telescopes And Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet To Gamma Ray / [ed] DenHerder, JWA Nikzad, S Nakazawa, K, SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng , 2022, Vol. 12181, article id 1218171Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
XL-Calibur is a balloon-borne mission for hard X-ray polarimetry. The first launch is currently scheduled from Sweden in summer 2022. Japanese collaborators provide a hard X-ray telescope to the mission. The telescope's design is identical to the Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT, conically-approximated Wolter-I optics) on board ASTRO-H with the same focal length of 12 m and the aperture of 45 cm, which can focus X-rays up to 80 keV. The telescope is divided into three segments in the circumferential direction, and confocal 213 grazing-incidence mirrors are precisely placed in the primary and secondary sections of each segment. The surfaces of the mirrors are coated with Pt/C depth-graded multilayer to reflect hard X-rays efficiently by the Bragg reflection. To achieve the best focus, optical adjustment of all of the segments was performed at the SPring-8/BL20B2 synchrotron radiation facility during 2020. A final performance evaluation was conducted in June 2021 and the experiment yields the effective area of 175 cm(2) and 73 cm(2) at 30 keV and 50 keV, respectively, with its half-power diameter of the point spread function as 2.1 arcmin. The field of view, defined as the full width of the half-maximum of the vignetting curve, is 5.9 arcmin.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng , 2022. Vol. 12181, article id 1218171
Series
Proceedings of SPIE, ISSN 0277-786X
Keywords [en]
X-ray astronomy, XL-Calibur, polarimetry, X-ray telescope
National Category
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-321628DOI: 10.1117/12.2626537ISI: 000865607100164Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85140466992OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-321628DiVA, id: diva2:1712268
Conference
Conference on Space Telescopes and Instrumentation - Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Part of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference, July 17-22, 2022, Montreal, CANADA
Note
QC 20221121
Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-1-5106-5344-3; 978-1-5106-5343-6
2022-11-212022-11-212022-11-21Bibliographically approved