Abstract

The major telescopes in this program are the one flown on the Einstein or HEAO-B satellite in 1978 and the one planned for the AXAF which should be launched in late 1995. The x-ray performance of the Einstein mirror is reviewed briefly, and its surface properties are inferred from a combination of its x-ray properties and the information available from the limited fabrication metrology of that era. The improvements necessary for satisfying the AXAF specification are summarized. Much of this technology already has been demonstrated in the TMA program, and this progress is reviewed.

© 1988 Optical Society of America

Design, construction, and performance of the ROSAT high-resolution x-ray mirror assembly

Bernd Aschenbach
Appl. Opt. 27(8) 1404-1413 (1988)

Optics for the x-ray imaging concentrators aboard the x-ray astronomy satellite SAX

Oberto Citterio, Giuseppe Bonelli, G. Conti, E. Mattaini, E. Santambrogio, B. Sacco, E. Lanzara, Heinrich Brauninger, and Wolfgang Burkert
Appl. Opt. 27(8) 1470-1475 (1988)

Electroformed grazing incidence x-ray mirrors for a mirror array telescope

Melville P. Ulmer, Yutaka Matsui, D. K. Bedford, G. M. Simnett, and Peter Z. Takacs
Appl. Opt. 26(18) 3852-3857 (1987)

X-ray and optical profiler analysis of electroformed x-ray optics

Yutaka Matsui, Melville P. Ulmer, and Peter Z. Takacs
Appl. Opt. 27(8) 1558-1563 (1988)

Performance prediction of the AXAF Technology Mirror Assembly using measured mirror surface errors

Paul Glenn, Paul Reid, Albert Slomba, and Leon P. Van Speybroeck
Appl. Opt. 27(8) 1539-1543 (1988)