Progress on the active alignment system for the IXO mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7437, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Freeman, Mark D ^a   Reid, Paul B ^a   Podgorski, William ^a   Caldwell, David ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hartmann test; IXO mission; Mirror support systems; Optical alignment; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ALIGNMENT; ALIGNMENT ACCURACY; ALIGNMENT SYSTEM; DOUBLE PASS; HARTMANN TEST; HARTMANN TESTS; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; IXO MISSION; LOOK-FORWARD; MIRROR PAIRS; MIRROR SUPPORT SYSTEMS; OPTICAL ALIGNMENT; PRIMARY MIRRORS; SECONDARY MIRROR; SEGMENTED MIRROR; SOFT X-RAY; SURFACE ACCURACY; THIN GLASS; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY ASTROPHYSICS; X-RAY FLUX;

ALIGNMENT; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINES; GLASS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TESTING; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 70449449466     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.830841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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