NuSTAR hard x-ray optics design and performance

J. E. Koglin; H. An; K. L. Blaedel; Nicolai Brejnholt; Finn Erland Christensen; W. Craig; T. A. Decker; C. J. Hailey; L. C. Hale; F. A. Harrison; Carsten P. Cooper-Jensen; K. K. Madsen; K. Mori; M. J. Pivovaroff; G. Tajiri; W. W. Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.826724

NuSTAR hard x-ray optics design and performance

J. E. Koglin, H. An, K. L. Blaedel, Nicolai Brejnholt, Finn Erland Christensen, W. Craig, T. A. Decker, C. J. Hailey, L. C. Hale, F. A. Harrison, Carsten P. Cooper-Jensen, K. K. Madsen, K. Mori, M. J. Pivovaroff, G. Tajiri, W. W. Zhang

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The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is a NASA satellite mission scheduled for launch in 2011. Using focusing optics with multilayer coating for enhanced reflectivity of hard X-rays (6-79 keV), NuSTAR will provide a combination of clarity, sensitivity and spectral resolution surpassing the largest observatories in this band by orders of magnitude. This advance will allow NuSTAR to test theories of how heavy elements are born, discover collapsed stars and black holes on all scales and explore the most extreme physical environments. We will present an overview of the NuSTAR optics design and production process and detail the optics performance.

Original language	English
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	74370C
ISSN	0277-786X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826724
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Koglin, J. E., An, H., Blaedel, K. L., Brejnholt, N., Christensen, F. E., Craig, W., Decker, T. A., Hailey, C. J., Hale, L. C., Harrison, F. A., Cooper-Jensen, C. P., Madsen, K. K., Mori, K., Pivovaroff, M. J., Tajiri, G., & Zhang, W. W. (2009). NuSTAR hard x-ray optics design and performance. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 74370C. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826724

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