Performance of the repolished S-056 grazing incidence mirror in the MSFC AXAF test facility

Jonathan W. Campbell; Richard B. Hoover; Phillip C. Baker

doi:10.1117/12.167220

1 February 1994 Performance of the repolished S-056 grazing incidence mirror in the MSFC AXAF test facility

Jonathan W. Campbell, Richard B. Hoover, Phillip C. Baker

Proceedings Volume 2011, Multilayer and Grazing Incidence X-Ray/EUV Optics II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.167220
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The S-056 Wolter I soft x-ray mirror used originally on Skylab for x-ray observations of the Sun is still in use today. The mirror has been flow polished to a surface finish of 5 angstroms for spatial frequencies from 1 - 1000 mm^-1 and has been tested in the AXAF x- ray calibration facility located at Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama. The mirror performance was enhanced by a new polishing technique and was found to have an experimental point spread function full width half maximum of less than 1 arc second at 8.3 angstroms. No change in the figure was observed.

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Jonathan W. Campbell, Richard B. Hoover, and Phillip C. Baker "Performance of the repolished S-056 grazing incidence mirror in the MSFC AXAF test facility", Proc. SPIE 2011, Multilayer and Grazing Incidence X-Ray/EUV Optics II, (1 February 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.167220

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