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Study of Lobster and Kirkpatrick-Baez Designs for a Small Mission dedicated to Gravitational Wave Transient Localization
John Rankin, Sergio Campana, Giovanni Pareschi +5
The localization of X-ray counterparts to gravitational wave events requires a telescope with accurate localization capability in a field of view comparable to the region constrain…
Design, manufacture and metrology of additively manufactured, metal and ceramic lightweight circular mirror prototypes
Greg Lister, Rhys Tuck, Younes Chahid +9
Spaced-based mirrors are a developing use-case for Additive Manufacturing (AM), the process that builds a part layer-by-layer. The increased geometric freedom results in novel and…
Additive manufacturing in ceramics: targeting lightweight mirror applications in the visible, ultraviolet and X-ray
Carolyn Atkins, Younes Chahid, Gregory Lister +12
Additive manufacturing (AM; 3D printing) has clear benefits in the production of lightweight mirrors for astronomy: it can create optimised lightweight structures and combine multi…
Thin glass shells for active optics for future space telescopes
Gabriele Vecchi, Stefano Basso, Marta Civitani +3
We present a method for the manufacturing of thin shells of glass, which appears promising for the development of active optics for future space telescopes. The method exploits the…
The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP
ShuangNan Zhang, Andrea Santangelo, Marco Feroci +146
In this paper we present the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP. eXTP is a space science mission designed to study fundamental physics under extreme conditions of…
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…