Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)-Performance Requirements And Design Considerations

Martin V. Zombeck

doi:10.1117/12.957434

9 August 1979 Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)- Performance Requirements And Design Considerations

Martin V. Zombeck

Proceedings Volume 0184, Space Optics Imaging X-Ray Optics Workshop; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957434
Event: 1979 Huntsville Technical Symposium, 1979, Huntsville, United States

Abstract

The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) is to be a free flying national X-ray observatory that is Shuttle-launched (in mid-1987), maintainable on-orbit, and retrievable. The design lifetime is > 10 years. The AXAF is conceived as an X-ray telescope with 6 nested Wolter type I mirrors (maximum aperture of 1.2m), a focal length of 10m, and interchangeable and replaceable focal plane instruments. The optics will provide 0.5 arcsecond imagery over a several arcminute field and somewhat reduced resolution over 1 degree in the X-ray band from 0.1 to 8 keV. The performance requirements and design of the facility will be discused and comparisons made with present X-ray observatories. The scientific objectives of the AXAF will also be discussed briefly.

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Martin V. Zombeck "Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF)- Performance Requirements And Design Considerations", Proc. SPIE 0184, Space Optics Imaging X-Ray Optics Workshop, (9 August 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957434

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