Alignment and integration plan for the off-plane grating rocket experiment

Benjamin D. Donovan; Randall L. McEntaffer; Bridget C. O'Meara; James H. Tutt; Fabien Grise; Kim D. Allgood; Michael P. Biskach; Kai-Wing Chan; Michal Hlinka; John D. Kearney; James R. Mazzarella; Ryan S. McClelland; Ai Numata; Raul E. Riveros; Timo T. Saha; Peter M. Solly; William W. Zhang; Andrew D. Holland; Daniel Evan; Matthew R. Soman; Karen Holland

doi:10.1117/12.2593357

13 August 2021 Alignment and integration plan for the off-plane grating rocket experiment

Benjamin D. Donovan, Randall L. McEntaffer, Bridget C. O'Meara, James H. Tutt, Fabien Grise, Kim D. Allgood, Michael P. Biskach, Kai-Wing Chan, Michal Hlinka, John D. Kearney, James R. Mazzarella, Ryan S. McClelland, Ai Numata, Raul E. Riveros, Timo T. Saha, Peter M. Solly, William W. Zhang, Andrew D. Holland, Daniel Evan, Matthew R. Soman, Karen Holland

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Proceedings Volume 11816, Optomechanics and Optical Alignment; 1181609 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2593357
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Off-plane Grating Rocket Experiment is a soft X-ray grating spectrometer payload to be launched on a suborbital rocket. The spectrometer will use three technologies – monocrystalline silicon X-ray optics (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), X-ray reflection gratings (The Pennsylvania State University), and electron-multiplying CCDs (XCAM Ltd., The Open University) – to achieve the highest performance on-sky soft X-ray spectrum to date when launched. To realize this performance, not only must each of the three individual spectrometer components perform at their required level, but these components also must be aligned to one another to the required tolerances and integrated into the payload. In this manuscript, we report on the alignment and integration plan for each component within the spectrometer.

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Benjamin D. Donovan, Randall L. McEntaffer, Bridget C. O'Meara, James H. Tutt, Fabien Grise, Kim D. Allgood, Michael P. Biskach, Kai-Wing Chan, Michal Hlinka, John D. Kearney, James R. Mazzarella, Ryan S. McClelland, Ai Numata, Raul E. Riveros, Timo T. Saha, Peter M. Solly, William W. Zhang, Andrew D. Holland, Daniel Evan, Matthew R. Soman, and Karen Holland "Alignment and integration plan for the off-plane grating rocket experiment", Proc. SPIE 11816, Optomechanics and Optical Alignment, 1181609 (13 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2593357

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