Silicon pore optics x-ray mirror development for the Athena telescope

Maximilien J. Collon; Ljubiša Babic; Nicolas M. Barrière; Alex Bayerle; Luigi Castiglione; Noë Eenkhoorn; David Girou; Ramses Günther; Enrico Hauser; Yvette Jenkins; Boris Landgraf; Laurens Keek; Ben Okma; Gregorio Mendoza Serrano; Aniket Thete; Giuseppe Vacanti; Sjoerd Verhoeckx; Mark Vervest; Luc Voruz; Marco W. Beijersbergen; Marcos Bavdaz; Eric Wille; Ivo Ferreira; Sebastiaan Fransen; Brian Shortt; Mark Olde Riekerink; Jeroen Haneveld; Arenda Koelewijn; Maurice Wijnperle; Jan Joost Lankwarden; Bart Schurink; Ronald Start; Coen Van Baren; Paul Hieltjes; Jan Willem Den Herder; Evelyn Handick; Michael Krumrey; Miranda Bradshaw; Vadim Burwitz; Sonny Massahi; Sara Svendsen; Desiree Della Monica Ferreira; Finn E. Christensen; Giuseppe Valsecchi; Geeta Kailla; William Mundon; Gavin Philips; Kevin Ball

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Silicon pore optics x-ray mirror development for the Athena telescope

Maximilien J. Collon^*, Ljubiša Babic, Nicolas M. Barrière, Alex Bayerle, Luigi Castiglione, Noë Eenkhoorn, David Girou, Ramses Günther, Enrico Hauser, Yvette Jenkins, Boris Landgraf, Laurens Keek, Ben Okma, Gregorio Mendoza Serrano, Aniket Thete, Giuseppe Vacanti, Sjoerd Verhoeckx, Mark Vervest, Luc Voruz, Marco W. BeijersbergenMarcos Bavdaz, Eric Wille, Ivo Ferreira, Sebastiaan Fransen, Brian Shortt, Mark Olde Riekerink, Jeroen Haneveld, Arenda Koelewijn, Maurice Wijnperle, Jan Joost Lankwarden, Bart Schurink, Ronald Start, Coen Van Baren, Paul Hieltjes, Jan Willem Den Herder, Evelyn Handick, Michael Krumrey, Miranda Bradshaw, Vadim Burwitz, Sonny Massahi, Sara Svendsen, Desiree Della Monica Ferreira, Finn E. Christensen, Giuseppe Valsecchi, Geeta Kailla, William Mundon, Gavin Philips, Kevin Ball

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Athena, the largest space-based x-ray telescope to be flown by the European Space Agency, uses a new modular technology to assemble its 2.5 m diameter lens. The lens will consist of several hundreds of smaller x-ray lenslets, called mirror modules, which each consist of up to 76 stacked mirror pairs. Those mirror modules are arranged in circles in a large optics structure and will focus x-ray photons with an energy of 0.5 to 10 keV at a distance of 12 m onto the detectors of Athena. The point-spread function (PSF) of the optic shall achieve a half-energy width (HEW) of 5"at an energy of 1 keV, with an effective area of about 1.4 m2, corresponding to several hundred m2 of super-polished mirrors with a roughness of about 0.3 nm and a thickness of down to 110 μm. This paper will present the status of the technology and of the mass production capabilities, show latest performance results and discuss the next steps in the development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of SPIE : Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy X
Editors	Stephen L. O'Dell, Jessica A. Gaskin, Giovanni Pareschi
Number of pages	10
Publisher	SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
Publication date	2021
Article number	1182206
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510644823
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2593505
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications 2021 - San Diego, United States Duration: 1 Aug 2021 → 5 Aug 2021

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Conference	SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	01/08/2021 → 05/08/2021

Series	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11822
ISSN	0277-786X

Keywords

ARCUS
ATHENA
Pore optics
Silicon
SPO
Stack
Wafer
X-ray astronomy
X-ray optics
X-ray telescopes

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Collon, M. J., Babic, L., Barrière, N. M., Bayerle, A., Castiglione, L., Eenkhoorn, N., Girou, D., Günther, R., Hauser, E., Jenkins, Y., Landgraf, B., Keek, L., Okma, B., Mendoza Serrano, G., Thete, A., Vacanti, G., Verhoeckx, S., Vervest, M., Voruz, L., ... Ball, K. (2021). Silicon pore optics x-ray mirror development for the Athena telescope. In S. L. O'Dell, J. A. Gaskin, & G. Pareschi (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE: Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy X Article 1182206 SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2593505

Collon, Maximilien J. ; Babic, Ljubiša ; Barrière, Nicolas M. et al. / Silicon pore optics x-ray mirror development for the Athena telescope. Proceedings of SPIE: Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy X. editor / Stephen L. O'Dell ; Jessica A. Gaskin ; Giovanni Pareschi. SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2021. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 11822).

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Silicon pore optics x-ray mirror development for the Athena telescope. / Collon, Maximilien J.; Babic, Ljubiša; Barrière, Nicolas M. et al.
Proceedings of SPIE: Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy X. ed. / Stephen L. O'Dell; Jessica A. Gaskin; Giovanni Pareschi. SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2021. 1182206 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 11822).

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