Small satellites with MEMS x-ray telescopes for x-ray astronomy and solar system exploration

Yuichiro Ezoe; Yoshizumi Miyoshi; Satoshi Kasahara; Tomoki Kimura; Kumi Ishikawa; Masaki Fujimoto; Kazuhisa Mitsuda; Hironori Sahara; Naoki Isobe; Hiroshi Nakajima; Takaya Ohashi; Haruki Nagata; Ryu Funase; Munetaka Ueno; Graziella Branduardi-Raymont

doi:10.1117/12.2311422

6 July 2018 Small satellites with MEMS x-ray telescopes for x-ray astronomy and solar system exploration

Yuichiro Ezoe, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Satoshi Kasahara, Tomoki Kimura, Kumi Ishikawa, Masaki Fujimoto, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Hironori Sahara, Naoki Isobe, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takaya Ohashi, Haruki Nagata, Ryu Funase, Munetaka Ueno, Graziella Branduardi-Raymont

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Proceedings Volume 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 106990V (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311422
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

Toward a new era of X-ray astronomy, next generation X-ray optics are indispensable. To meet a demand for telescopes lighter than the foil optics but with a better angular resolution less than 1 arcmin, we are developing micropore X-ray optics based on micromaching technologies. Using sidewalls of micropores through a thin silicon wafer, this type can be the lightest X-ray telescope ever achieved. Two new Japanese missions ORBIS and GEOX will carry this optics. ORBIS is a small X-ray astronomy mission to monitor supermassive blackholes, while GEO-X is a small exploration mission of the Earth’s magnetosphere. Both missions need a ultra light-weight (<1 kg) telescope with moderately good angular resolution (<10 arcmin) at an extremely short focal length (<30 cm). We plan to demonstrate this optics in these two missions around 2020, aiming at future other astronomy and exploration missions.

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Yuichiro Ezoe, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Satoshi Kasahara, Tomoki Kimura, Kumi Ishikawa, Masaki Fujimoto, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Hironori Sahara, Naoki Isobe, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takaya Ohashi, Haruki Nagata, Ryu Funase, Munetaka Ueno, and Graziella Branduardi-Raymont "Small satellites with MEMS x-ray telescopes for x-ray astronomy and solar system exploration", Proc. SPIE 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 106990V (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311422

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