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most citedThe Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating: Design, Fabrication, Ground Calibration and Five Years in Flight

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astro-ph.IM2026

Lynx2030 Science Analysis Group: Final Report

Lynx2030 Science Analysis Group, Simon R. Bandler, Laura W. Brenneman +51

The Lynx2030 Science Analysis Group (SAG) was convened to reassess the scientific goals and technical drivers of the Lynx mission concept amid a rapidly evolving astrophysics lands…

astro-ph.IM2024

Transmission grating arrays for the X-ray spectrometer on Arcus Probe

Ralf K. Heilmann, Alexander R. Bruccoleri, James A. Gregory +6

The Arcus Probe mission concept has been submitted as an Astrophysics Probe Explorer candidate. It features two co-aligned high-resolution grating spectrometers: one for the soft x…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 15 cited

X-ray performance of critical-angle transmission grating prototypes for the Arcus mission

Ralf K. Heilmann, Alexander R. Bruccoleri, Vadim Burwitz +12

Arcus is a proposed soft x-ray grating spectrometer Explorer. It aims to explore cosmic feedback by mapping hot gases within and between galaxies and galaxy clusters and characteri…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Calibration of the MaGIXS experiment II: Flight Instrument Calibration

P. S. Athiray, Amy R. Winebarger, Patrick Champey +21

The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) is a sounding rocket experiment that observes the soft X-ray spectrum of the Sun from 6.0 - 24 Angstrom (0.5 - 2.0 keV),…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 3 cited

Toward volume manufacturing of high-performance soft x-ray critical-angle transmission gratings

Ralf K. Heilmann, Alexander R. Bruccoleri, Jungki Song +11

High-resolution () x-ray absorption and emission line spectroscopy in the soft x-ray band is a crucial diagnostic for the exploration of the properties of ubiquitou…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 9 cited

Optical design of diffraction-limited X-ray telescopes

Brandon D. Chalifoux, Ralf K. Heilmann, Herman L. Marshall +1

Astronomical imaging with micro-arcsecond (as) angular resolution could enable breakthrough scientific discoveries. Previously-proposed as X-ray imager designs have been inte…