Hot slumping glass technology and integration process to manufacture a grazing incidence scaled prototype for the ixo telescope modules

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7437, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ghigo, M ^a   Basso, S ^a   Canestrari, R ^a,b   Conconi, P ^a   Citterio, O ^a   Civitani, M ^a,b   Dell'orto, E ^c   Gallieni, D ^d   Pareschi, G ^a   Parodi, G ^e   Proserpio, L ^a,b   Spiga, D ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d ADS International Srl   (Italy)

^e BCV Progetti   (Italy)

Author keywords

Glass mirror plate; Hot slumping; Ixo telescope; Xou X ray optical unit

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; GLASS MIRROR PLATE; GLASS TECHNOLOGY; GRAZING INCIDENCE; HIGH-QUALITY GLASS; HOT SLUMPING; INTEGRATION PHASE; INTEGRATION PROCESS; IXO TELESCOPE; LARGE SIZES; LIGHT WEIGHT OPTICS; MIRROR ASSEMBLY; MIRROR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL UNITS; PAYLOAD MASS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; SPACE MISSIONS; THIN GLASS; VACUUM SUCTION; X RAY MIRRORS; X-RAY OBSERVATORY; XOU X-RAY OPTICAL UNIT;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER CRIME; FEEDBACK; FUSED SILICA; GLASS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SILICA; SILICON CARBIDE; TELESCOPES; ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 70449348223     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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