Published October 6, 2011
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Coatings for the NuSTAR mission
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California Institute of Technology
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Columbia University
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Reflective X Ray Optics
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Abstract
The NuSTAR mission will be the first mission to carry a hard X-ray(5-80 keV) focusing telescope to orbit. The optics are based on the use of multilayer coated thin slumped glass. Two different material combinations were used for the flight optics, namely W/Si and Pt/C. In this paper we describe the entire coating effort including the final coating design that was used for the two flight optics. We also present data on the performance verification of the coatings both on Si witness samples as well as on individual flight mirrors.
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© 2011 SPIE. We gratefully acknowledge the help of Monica Fernandez-Perea, Sherry Baker and Regina Soufli for acquiring and analyzing the AFM data referred to in table 3. Likewise we gratefully acknowledge the help of Suzanne Romaine and Rick Bruni during the scatter measurement campaign at the Brookhaven synchrotron. We also want to thank Doug Thornhill, Clio Sleator and Shuo Zhang for help in taking the data on the hundreds of Si-witness samples at the RaMCaF facility. Finally we thank Simone J. Jakobsen, Mettte Friis, Nis B. Andreasen and Joachim Mortensen for assistance in the day to day maintenance and operation of the coating facility.Attached Files
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- NuSTAR , Space Radiation Laboratory
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- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 8147