Current status of the X-ray mirror for the XL-Calibur experimentShow others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 682021 (English)In: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet To Gamma Ray / [ed] DenHerder, JWA Nikzad, S Nakazawa, K, SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng , 2021, article id 114445WConference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
XL-Calibur is a balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission, the first flight of which is currently foreseen for 2022. XL-Calibur carries an X-ray telescope consists of 213 Wolter I grazing-incidence mirrors which are nested in a coaxial and cofocal configuration. The optics design is nearly identical to the Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT) on board the ASTRO-H satellite. The telescope was originally fabricated for the Formation Flying Astronomical Survey Telescope (FFAST) project. However, the telescope can be used for XL-Calibur, since the FFAST project was terminated before completion. The mirror surfaces are coated with Pt/C depth-graded multilayers to reflect hard X-rays above 10 keV by Bragg reflection. The effective area of the telescope is larger than 300 cm(2) at 20 keV. This paper reports the current status of the telescope for XL-Calibur.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng , 2021. article id 114445W
Series
Proceedings of SPIE, ISSN 0277-786X ; 11444
Keywords [en]
XL-Calibur, polarimetry, X-ray telescope
National Category
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-300364DOI: 10.1117/12.2560928ISI: 000674737700090Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85099280098OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-300364DiVA, id: diva2:1589615
Conference
Conference on Space Telescopes and Instrumentation - Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray / SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Conference, DEC 14-18, 2020, ELECTR NETWORK
Note
Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-1-5106-3676-7, QC 20230117
2021-08-312021-08-312023-01-17Bibliographically approved