The development of the mirror for the Athena x-ray mission

Maximilien J. Collon; Luis Abalo; Nicolas M. Barrière; Alex Bayerle; Luigi Castiglione; Noë Eenkhoorn; David Girou; Ramses Günther; Enrico Hauser; Roy Van Der Hoeven; Jasper Den Hollander; Yvette Jenkins; Laurens Keek; Boris Landgraf; Adam Lassise; Ben Okma; Paulo Da Silva Ribeiro; Chris Rizzos; Aniket Thete; Giuseppe Vacanti; Sjoerd Verhoeckx; Mark Vervest; Roel Visser; Luc Voruz; Marcos Bavdaz; Eric Wille; Ivo Ferreira; Mark Olde Riekerink; Jeroen Haneveld; Arenda Koelewijn; Maurice Wijnperle; Jan Joost Lankwarden; Bart Schurink; Ronald Start; Coen Van Baren; Michael Krumrey; Jan Willem Den Herder; Dieter  Skroblin; Vadim Burwitz; Sonny Massahi; Desiree Della Monica Ferreira; Sara Svendsen; Finn E. Christensen; William Mundon; Gavin Phillips

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The development of the mirror for the Athena x-ray mission

Maximilien J. Collon^*, Luis Abalo, Nicolas M. Barrière, Alex Bayerle, Luigi Castiglione, Noë Eenkhoorn, David Girou, Ramses Günther, Enrico Hauser, Roy Van Der Hoeven, Jasper Den Hollander, Yvette Jenkins, Laurens Keek, Boris Landgraf, Adam Lassise, Ben Okma, Paulo Da Silva Ribeiro, Chris Rizzos, Aniket Thete, Giuseppe VacantiSjoerd Verhoeckx, Mark Vervest, Roel Visser, Luc Voruz, Marcos Bavdaz, Eric Wille, Ivo Ferreira, Mark Olde Riekerink, Jeroen Haneveld, Arenda Koelewijn, Maurice Wijnperle, Jan Joost Lankwarden, Bart Schurink, Ronald Start, Coen Van Baren, Michael Krumrey, Jan Willem Den Herder, Dieter Skroblin, Vadim Burwitz, Sonny Massahi, Desiree Della Monica Ferreira, Sara Svendsen, Finn E. Christensen, William Mundon, Gavin Phillips

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Athena is the European Space Agency’s next flagship telescope, scheduled for launch in the 2030s. Its 2.5 m diameter mirror will be segmented and comprise more than 600 individual Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) mirror modules. Arranged in concentric annuli and following a Wolter-Schwartzschild design, the mirror modules are made of several tens of grazing incidence primary-secondary mirror pairs, each mirror made of silicon, coated to increase the effective area of the system, and shaped to bring the incoming photons to a common focus 12 m away. The mission aims to deliver a half-energy width of 5" and an effective area of about 1.4 m² at 1 keV. We present the status of the optics technology, and illustrate recent X-ray results and the progress made on the environmental testing, manufacturing and assembly aspects of the optics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of SPIE : International Conference on Space Optics - ICSO 2022
Editors	Kyriaki Minoglou, Nikos Karafolas, Bruno Cugny
Number of pages	10
Volume	12777
Publisher	SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
Publication date	2023
Article number	127770R
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2689003
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	International Conference on Space Optics - Dubrovnik, Croatia Duration: 3 Oct 2022 → 7 Oct 2022

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Conference	International Conference on Space Optics
Country/Territory	Croatia
City	Dubrovnik
Period	03/10/2022 → 07/10/2022

Series	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	12777
ISSN	0277-786X

Keywords

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

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Collon, M. J., Abalo, L., Barrière, N. M., Bayerle, A., Castiglione, L., Eenkhoorn, N., Girou, D., Günther, R., Hauser, E., Van Der Hoeven, R., Den Hollander, J., Jenkins, Y., Keek, L., Landgraf, B., Lassise, A., Okma, B., Da Silva Ribeiro, P., Rizzos, C., Thete, A., ... Phillips, G. (2023). The development of the mirror for the Athena x-ray mission. In K. Minoglou, N. Karafolas, & B. Cugny (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE: International Conference on Space Optics - ICSO 2022 (Vol. 12777). Article 127770R SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2689003

Collon, Maximilien J. ; Abalo, Luis ; Barrière, Nicolas M. et al. / The development of the mirror for the Athena x-ray mission. Proceedings of SPIE: International Conference on Space Optics - ICSO 2022. editor / Kyriaki Minoglou ; Nikos Karafolas ; Bruno Cugny. Vol. 12777 SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2023. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 12777).

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The development of the mirror for the Athena x-ray mission. / Collon, Maximilien J.; Abalo, Luis; Barrière, Nicolas M. et al.
Proceedings of SPIE: International Conference on Space Optics - ICSO 2022. ed. / Kyriaki Minoglou; Nikos Karafolas; Bruno Cugny. Vol. 12777 SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2023. 127770R (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 12777).

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Collon MJ, Abalo L, Barrière NM, Bayerle A, Castiglione L, Eenkhoorn N et al. The development of the mirror for the Athena x-ray mission. In Minoglou K, Karafolas N, Cugny B, editors, Proceedings of SPIE: International Conference on Space Optics - ICSO 2022. Vol. 12777. SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering. 2023. 127770R. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 12777). doi: 10.1117/12.2689003

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