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5 October 2023 Mirror design for the high-energy x-ray probe (HEX-P)
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Abstract
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P) is a probe-class mission concept that combines high spatial resolution x-ray imaging and broad spectral coverage to enable revolutionary new insights into the important astrophysical questions of the next decade. HEX-P will fly a complement of two Hard Energy Mirror Assemblies (HEMA) and one Low Energy Mirror Assembly (LEMA), all of which will have a focal length of 20 meter. Ir/C has been chosen as the baseline coating for the LEMA, and a combination of Pt/C and W/Si multilayers for the HEMA. We present here the mirror design, optimization of coating recipes, and estimated performance.
(2023) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Kristin K. Madsen, James Corsetti, Steven Kenyon, Takashi Okajima, Scott Rohrback, Keisuke Tamura, William W. Zhang, Danielle N. Gurgew, Finn Erland Christensen, Desiree Della Monica Ferreira, Nis Christian Gellert, Sonny Massahi, Stefano Basso, Giovanni Pareschi, Alberto Moretti, Daniele Spiga, Giuseppe Valsecchi, Dervis Vernani, and Daniel K. Stern "Mirror design for the high-energy x-ray probe (HEX-P)", Proc. SPIE 12679, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy XI, 126791E (5 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677554
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KEYWORDS
Mirrors

Multilayers

Coating

Design and modelling

X-rays

Point spread functions

Mirror surfaces

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