Active x-ray optics for the next generation of x-ray telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7360, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Atkins, Carolyn ^a   Wang, Hongchang ^a,f   Doel, Peter ^a   Brooks, David ^a   Thompson, Samantha ^a   Feldman, Charlotte ^b   Willingale, Richard ^b   Button, Tim ^c   Rodriguez Sanmartin, Daniel ^c   Zhang, Dou ^c   James, Ady ^d   Theobald, Craig ^d   Willis, Graham ^d   Smith, Andrew D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Piezoelectric actuators; Thin active mirrors; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE X; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; CHANDRA X-RAY OBSERVATORY; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LARGE APERTURE; OPTICAL SURFACES; RAY-SPACE; SMALL SCALE DEVICES; THIN ACTIVE MIRRORS; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY ASTRONOMY; X-RAY OBSERVATORY; X-RAY TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BUILDINGS; CANTILEVER BEAMS; MIRRORS; NASA; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 69949156839     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.820446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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