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First light of BEaTriX, the new testing facility for the modular X-ray optics of the ATHENA mission
S. Basso, B. Salmaso, D. Spiga +35
The Beam Expander Testing X-ray facility (BEaTriX) is a unique X-ray apparatus now operated at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB)…
Performance Testing of a Large-Format Reflection Grating Prototype for a Suborbital Rocket Payload
Benjamin D. Donovan, Randall L. McEntaffer, Casey T. DeRoo +8
The soft X-ray grating spectrometer on board the Off-plane Grating Rocket Experiment (OGRE) hopes to achieve the highest resolution soft X-ray spectrum of an astrophysical object w…
Calibration of X-ray telescope prototypes at PANTER
Ying-Yu Liao, Zheng-Xiang Shen, Jun Yu +11
We report a ground X-ray calibration of two X-ray telescope prototypes at the PANTER X-ray Test Facility, of the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, in Neuried, Germ…
Design and advancement status of the Beam Expander Testing X-ray facility (BEaTriX)
D. Spiga, C. Pelliciari, B. Salmaso +10
The BEaTriX (Beam Expander Testing X-ray facility) project is an X-ray apparatus under construction at INAF/OAB to generate a broad (200 x 60 mm2), uniform and low-divergent X-ray…
Manufacturing and testing a thin glass mirror shell with piezoelectric active control
D. Spiga, M. Barbera, A. Collura +12
Optics for future X-ray telescopes will be characterized by very large aperture and focal length, and will be made of lightweight materials like glass or silicon in order to keep t…
BEaTriX, expanded X-ray beam facility for testing modular elements of telescope optics: an update
Carlo Pelliciari, Daniele Spiga, Elisa Bonnini +4
We present in this paper an update on the design of BEaTriX (Beam Expander Testing X-ray facility), an X-ray apparatus to be realized at INAF/OAB and that will generate an expanded…
Active shape correction of a thin glass/plastic X-ray mirror
D. Spiga, M. Barbera, S. Basso +9
Optics for future X-ray telescopes will be characterized by very large aperture and focal length, and will be made of lightweight materials like glass or plastic in order to keep t…