Practical, corrected Kirkpatrick-Baez telescope for x-ray astronomy

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作者
Longcope, Dana [1 ]
Acton, Loren [1 ]
Kankelborg, Charles [1 ]
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[1] Montana State Univ, Dept Phys, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
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OPTICS;
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10.1364/AO.58.004969
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Kirkpatrick-Baez (K-B) optics offer a means of imaging soft x-rays with modest resolution and a multi-arc-minute field of view at a cost far below the conventional Wolter design. Such a low-cost system could be useful for dedicated, long-time-line observation of astronomical x-ray sources from orbit. A K-B telescope consists of crossed arrays of parabolic mirrors at grazing incidence. The classic K-B telescope is subject to significant aberration arising from the interplay between the focusing of the fore and aft mirror arrays. We demonstrate here a corrected K-B prescription with aberrations reduced by an order of magnitude. We show, furthermore, that it is possible to construct such a system by constraining flat "slats" of commercially available glass in precision-milled grooves. The slats deform into shapes that adequately approximate the optimal figures, thereby yielding focusing better than the best version of the classic K-B telescope. The result is a new approach that greatly simplifies the task of achieving both useful resolution and high effective area for x-ray astronomy applications. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America
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页码:4969 / 4980
页数:12
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