The performance of thin shell adaptive optics for high angular resolution X-ray telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7803, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Feldman, Charlotte ^a   Willingale, Richard ^a   Atkins, Carolyn ^b   Brooks, David ^b   Button, Tim ^c   Doel, Peter ^b   James, Ady ^d   Meggs, Carl ^c   Rodriguez Sanmartin, Daniel ^c   Smith, Andy ^e   Theobald, Craig ^d   Willis, Graham ^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)

^e DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MIRRORS; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; CHANDRA; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; LARGE-SCALE PROTOTYPE; SMALL-SCALE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SURFACE FIGURE; THIN SHELLS; UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER; X RAY BEAM; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; SURFACE TESTING; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 78549239856     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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