Grazing Incidence Telescopes For ESA's X-Ray Astronomy Mission XMM

Bernd Aschenbach; Heinrich Brauninger

doi:10.1117/12.948697

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21 December 1988 Grazing Incidence Telescopes For ESA's X-Ray Astronomy Mission XMM

Bernd Aschenbach, Heinrich Brauninger

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Proceedings Volume 0982, X-Ray Instrumentation in Astronomy II; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948697
Event: 32nd Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1988, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The European Space Agency ESA is currently planning its next cornerstone mission of the Horizon 2000 space science programme, which is the high throughput x-ray astronomy mission XMM. The heart of the scientific payload consists of a set of 3 highly nested Wolter type I telescopes. A review of the optical design and layout is given. The grazing incidence mirrors will be made by epoxy replication on CFRP from a highly polished glass mandrel. This technique has been used to produce flat mirror samples, of which x-ray measurements of reflectivity and scattering are presented.

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Bernd Aschenbach and Heinrich Brauninger "Grazing Incidence Telescopes For ESA's X-Ray Astronomy Mission XMM", Proc. SPIE 0982, X-Ray Instrumentation in Astronomy II, (21 December 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948697

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