The Constellation-X SXT Optical Alignment Pathfinder 2 - Design, Implementation and Alignment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5168, Issue , 2004, Pages 239-247

  Owens, Scott M ^a   Hair, Jason ^a   Stewart, Jeffrey ^a   Petre, Robert ^a   Zhang, William ^a   Podgorski, William ^b   Glenn, Paul ^c   Content, David ^a   Saha, Timo ^a   Nanan, Giriraj ^d  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c Bauer Associates Inc   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Centroid Detector Assembly; Optic Alignment; Optical Metrology; Segmented Optics

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; X RAY OPTICS;

CENTROID DETECTOR ASSEMBLY; OPTICAL ALIGNMENT; OPTICAL METROLOGY; SEGMENTED OPTICS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 11144354617     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.509366     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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2. W. A. Podgorski, et. al, "Constellation-X spectroscopy x-ray telescope image error budget and performance prediction," Proc. SPIE, 5168-35, eds. O. Citterio and S. L. O'Dell (2003).
3. P. Glenn, Centroid Detector Assembly for the AXAF-I Alignment Test System, Proc. SPIE 2515, 352 (1995)
4. All epoxy bonds in the OAP2 use Stycast 2850 epoxy.