Expected to launch in 2021 Spring, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Astrophysics Small Explorer Mission with significant contributions from the Italian space agency (ASI). The IXPE observatory features three identical x-ray telescopes, each comprised of a 4-m-focal-length mirror module assembly (MMA, provided by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center) that focuses x rays onto a polarization-sensitive, imaging detector (contributed by ASI-funded institutions). This paper summarizes the MMA’s design, fabrication, alignment and assembly, expected performance, and calibration plans.
IXPE Mirror Module Assemblies
SPIE Optics + Photonics Optical Engineering + Applications ; 2019 ; San Diego, CA, United States
2019-08-12
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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