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Session 56 - New Solar Instrumentation.
Display session, Wednesday, June 12
Tripp Commons,
Over the past several years at the University of Colorado we have been developing an X-ray telescope that uses a new technique for focusing X-rays with grazing incidence optics The telescope uses spherical optics for all its components, thus utilizing the high quality surfaces obtainable when polishing spherical optics as compared to that of aspherical optics. A prototype engineering X-ray telescope has been fabricated and tested using the 300 meter vacuum pipe at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The telescope uses approximately 2 degree graze angles with tungsten coatings which gives a bandpass of 0.25-1.5 keV and a peak effective area of 0.08 cm^2 at 0.83 keV. Results from X-ray testing at energies of 0.25 keV and 0.93 keV (C-K and Cu-L) will be presented which verify 0.5 arcseconds performance at 0.93 keV. Results from modeling the X-ray telescope's response to the sun show that the current optics design would be capable of recording on the order of 10 images of a solar active region during a 300 second NASA sounding rocket flight at resolution of 0.5 arcsecond.
