Title

Systems Engineering Analysis Of Five "As-Manufactured" Sxi Telescopes

Keywords

Grazing Incidence X-ray Telescopes; Optical Manufacturing Errors

Abstract

Four flight models and a spare of the Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) telescope mirrors have been fabricated. The first of these is scheduled to be launched on the NOAA GOES- N satellite on July 29, 2005. A complete systems engineering analysis of the "as-manufactured" telescope mirrors has been performed that includes diffraction effects, residual design errors (aberrations), surface scatter effects, and all of the miscellaneous errors in the mirror manufacturer's error budget tree. Finally, a rigorous analysis of mosaic detector effects has been included. SXI is a staring telescope providing full solar disc images at X-ray wavelengths. For wide-field applications such as this, a field-weighted-average measure of resolution has been modeled. Our performance predictions have allowed us to use metrology data to model the "as-manufactured" performance of the X-ray telescopes and to adjust the final focal plane location to optimize the number of spatial resolution elements in a given operational field-of-view (OFOV) for either the aerial image or the detected image. The resulting performance predictions from five separate mirrors allow us to evaluate and quantify the optical fabrication process for producing these very challenging grazing incidence X-ray optics.

Publication Date

12-23-2005

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

5867

Number of Pages

1-11

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.622376

Socpus ID

29144461560 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/29144461560

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