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most citedFirst light of BEaTriX, the new testing facility for the modular X-ray optics of the ATHENA mission

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astro-ph.IM2022★ 18 cited

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)…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

Silicon Pore Optics

Nicolas M. Barrière, Marcos Bavdaz, Maximilien J. Collon +4

Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) uses commercially available monocrystalline double-sided super-polished silicon wafers as a basis to produce mirrors that form lightweight high-resolution…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 3 cited

Profile reconstruction of grazing-incidence X-ray mirrors from intra-focal X-ray full imaging

D. Spiga, S. Basso, M. Bavdaz +11

The optics of a number of future X-ray telescopes will have very long focal lengths (10 - 20 m), and will consist of a number of nested/stacked thin, grazing-incidence mirrors. The…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 5 cited

Evaluation of the surface strength of glass plates shaped by hot slumping process

L. Proserpio, S. Basso, F. Borsa +15

The Hot Slumping Technology is under development by several research groups in the world for the realization of grazing-incidence segmented mirrors for X-ray astronomy, based on th…

astro-ph2001

In.XS: project for a future spaceborne hard X-ray all-sky survey

P. B. Marty, J. Schultz, C. Bayer +13

The latest all-sky survey in hard X-ray band was performed by the HEAO-1 satellite (13-80 keV) with an angular resolution of 24x48 arcmin. A diffuse hard X-Ray background (HXB) was…