Mounting and alignment of IXO mirror segments

Kai-Wing Chan; William Zhang; Tyler Evans; Ryan McClelland; Melinda Hong; James Mazzarella; Timo Saha; Lalit Jalota; Lawrence Olsen; Glenn Byron

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29 July 2010 Mounting and alignment of IXO mirror segments

Kai-Wing Chan, William Zhang, Tyler Evans, Ryan McClelland, Melinda Hong, James Mazzarella, Timo Saha, Lalit Jalota, Lawrence Olsen, Glenn Byron

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Proceedings Volume 7732, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 77323Q (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857559
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A suspension-mounting scheme is developed for the IXO (International X-ray Observatory) mirror segments in which the figure of the mirror segment is preserved in each stage of mounting. The mirror, first fixed on a thermally compatible strongback, is subsequently transported, aligned and transferred onto its mirror housing. In this paper, we shall outline the requirement, approaches, and recent progress of the suspension mount processes.

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Kai-Wing Chan, William Zhang, Tyler Evans, Ryan McClelland, Melinda Hong, James Mazzarella, Timo Saha, Lalit Jalota, Lawrence Olsen, and Glenn Byron "Mounting and alignment of IXO mirror segments", Proc. SPIE 7732, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 77323Q (29 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857559

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