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4 September 2015 Development of an x-ray telescope with a large effective area for the iron K line band
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X-ray micro-calorimeters such as the Soft X-ray Spectrometer on board ASTRO-H will enable precise spectroscopy of iron K lines. To exploit the full power of the high-energy resolution, X-ray telescopes with a large effective area around 6 keV are essentially important. We designed a Wolter-I X-ray telescope with Ir/C multi- layer mirrors to enhance the effective area at around 6 keV by the principle of Bragg reflection. We assumed a diameter of 110 cm and a focal length of 110 cm for our telescope. Our simulation suggests that the effective area averaged in the 5.7{7.7 keV band could be 2000 cm2.
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Hironori Matsumoto, Sasagu Tachibana, Shun Yoshikawa, Keisuke Tamura, Hideyuki Mori, Kojun Yamashita, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Yuzuru Tawara, and Hideyo Kunieda "Development of an x-ray telescope with a large effective area for the iron K line band", Proc. SPIE 9603, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy VII, 96030F (4 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2190591
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X-rays

X-ray telescopes

Mirrors

Telescopes

Iridium

Iron

Carbon

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