Development of thin shell adaptive Optics for high angular resolution X-ray telescopes.

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7011, Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Piezoelectric actuators; Thin active mirrors; X ray astronomy; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE X; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; CHANDRA; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; OPTIC DESIGN; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; SMALL SCALE; THIN ACTIVE MIRRORS; THIN SHELLS; UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY ASTRONOMY; X-RAY TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CANTILEVER BEAMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GAMMA RAYS; INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; X RAY CAMERAS; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 70249144754     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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