Fabrication and Performance Prediction of the AXAF Technology Mirror Assembly

P. B. Reid; R. Babish; J. Berman; T. Gordon; A. Sarnik; E. Waluschka; P. Glenn

doi:10.1364/SOA.1988.WB1

Space Optics for Astrophysics and Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1988),
paper WB1
•https://doi.org/10.1364/SOA.1988.WB1

Fabrication and Performance Prediction of the AXAF Technology Mirror Assembly

P. B. Reid, R. Babish, J. Berman, T. Gordon, A. Sarnik, E. Waluschka, and P. Glenn

Space Optics for Astrophysics and Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing 1988

North Falmouth Cape Cod, Massachusetts United States
27–29 September 1988
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P. B. Reid, R. Babish, J. Berman, T. Gordon, A. Sarnik, E. Waluschka, and P. Glenn, "Fabrication and Performance Prediction of the AXAF Technology Mirror Assembly," in Space Optics for Astrophysics and Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1988), paper WB1.

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Abstract

Recent advances in fabrication of the AXAF Technology Mirror Assembly are discussed. Performance of the telescope with the measured mirror surface figure is also presented.

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