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Ghigo, Mauro
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- 2018A novel approach for the realization of thin glass substrates for optical mirrorscitations
- 2015Cold shaping of thin glass foils: a fast and cost-effective solution for making light-weight astronomical x-ray opticscitations
- 2014Evaluation of the surface strength of glass plates shaped by hot slumping processcitations
- 2013Accurate integration of segmented x-ray optics using interfacing ribscitations
- 2009Design And Development The Ixo Mirrors By Innovative Slumping Glass Technologies
- 2009Stiff and Lightweight Optical Mirrors Made by Glass Slumping with Foamed Core
- 2009Lightweight Mirror Developments
- 2005Recent results on manufacturing of segmented x-ray mirrors with slumped glasscitations
- 2003Use of the LIGA process for the production of pyramid wavefront sensors for adaptive optics in astronomycitations
- 2003Replication by Ni electroforming approach to produce the Con-X/HXT hard x-ray mirrorscitations
- 2003Alternative mirror technologies
- 2002Development of soft and hard x-ray optics for astronomy: progress report II and considerations on material properties for large-diameter segmented optics of future missionscitations
- 2000Integral shell mirrors for the Constellation X-ray mission hard x-ray telescopecitations
- 2000Nickel-replicated multilayer optics for soft and hard x-ray telescopescitations
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Accurate integration of segmented x-ray optics using interfacing ribs
Abstract
Future lightweight and long-focal-length x-ray telescopes must guarantee a good angular resolution (e.g., 5 arc sec HEW) and reach an unprecedented large effective area. This goal can be reached with the slumping of borosilicate glass sheets that allow the fabrication of lightweight and low-cost x-ray optical units (XOU). These XOUs, based on mirror segments, have to be assembled together to form complete multishell Wolter-I optics. The technology for the fabrication and the integration of these XOUs is under development in Europe, funded by European Space Agency, and led by the Brera Observatory (INAF-OAB). While the achievement of the required surface accuracy on the glass segments by means of a hot slumping technique is a challenging aspect, adequate attention must be given to the correct integration and coalignment of the mirror segments into the XOUs. To this aim, an innovative assembly concept has been investigated, based on glass reinforcing ribs. The ribs connect pairs of consecutive foils, stacked into a XOU, with both structural and functional roles, providing robust monolithic stacks of mirror plates. Moreover, this integration concept allows the correction of residual low-frequency errors still present on the mirror foil profile after slumping. We present the integration concept, the related error budget, and the results achieved so far with a semi-robotic integration machine especially designed and realized to assemble slumped glass foils into XOUs....