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21 August 2024 Testing silicon pore optics for NewATHENA at PANTER
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Abstract
Future mission X-ray optics are regularly tested and calibrated at the PANTER X-ray test facility of the Max- Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. The ATHENA mission has just completed a science and hardware redefinition phase as the NewATHENA mission. During this one-and-a-half-year redefinition phase, the development of the baseline Silicon Pore Optics SPOs continued, resulting in the fabrication of the first SPO mirror modules with all the NewATHENA characteristics (dimensions, rib spacing, and coating). At PANTER, these NewATHENA SPOs will be measured and characterized. This characterization comprises half energy widths of the on- and off-axis point spread function. Furthermore, effective area measurements covering the energy range of NewATHENA will be performed. We provide an overview of the results obtained from measurements during a test campaign in January 2024 of the SPO MM-0058, the first representative NewATHENA row-08 mirror module.
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(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Vadim Burwitz, Maximilien J. Collon, Giuseppe Vacanti, Nicolas M. Barrière, Boris Landgraf, Marcos Bavdaz, Ivo Ferreira, Gisela Hartner, Andreas Langmeier, Thomas Müller, Surangkhana Rukdee, and Thomas Schmidt "Testing silicon pore optics for NewATHENA at PANTER", Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 130931B (21 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019791
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KEYWORDS
X-ray optics

Point spread functions

Mirrors

Sensors

X-rays

Optical testing

Silicon

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