Industrialization scenario for X-ray telescopes production based on glass slumping

Laura Proserpio; Thorsten Döhring; Elias Breunig; Peter Friedrich; Anita Winter

doi:10.1117/12.2055129

24 July 2014 Industrialization scenario for X-ray telescopes production based on glass slumping

Laura Proserpio, Thorsten Döhring, Elias Breunig, Peter Friedrich, Anita Winter

Proceedings Volume 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 914448 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055129
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Large X-ray segmented telescopes will be a key element for future missions aiming to solve still hidden mysteries of the hot and energetic Universe, such as the role of black holes in shaping their surroundings or how and why ordinary matter assembles into galaxies and clusters as it does. The major challenge of these systems is to guarantee a large effective area in combination with large field of view and good angular resolution, while maintaining the mass of the entire system within the geometrical and mass budget posed by space launchers. The slumping technology presents all the technical potentiality to be implemented for the realization of such demanding systems: it is based on the use of thin glass foils, shaped at high temperature in an oven over a suitable mould. Thousands of slumped segments are then aligned and assembled together into the optical payload. An exercise on the mass production approach has been conducted at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) to show that the slumping technology can be a valuable approach for the realization of future X-ray telescopes also from a point of view of industrialization. For the analysis, a possible design for the ATHENA mission telescope was taken as reference.

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Laura Proserpio, Thorsten Döhring, Elias Breunig, Peter Friedrich, and Anita Winter "Industrialization scenario for X-ray telescopes production based on glass slumping", Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 914448 (24 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055129

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