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Before IXO: Constellation-X

Technology Development Papers 2008 listed by instrument

• Mission Design
  • The Constellation-X Observatory, Jay Bookbinder et al., SPIE, 2008
• Flight Mirror Assembly

• Con-X mirror technology development, William Zhang et al., SPIE, 2008

• A comparison of different alignment approaches…, Paul B. Reid et al., SPIE, 2008

• A mounting and alignment approach for Con-X mirrors, William A Podgorski et al., SPIE, 2008

• Design study for supporting thin glass optical elements for x-ray telescopes, Mark D Freeman et al., SPIE, 2008

• Optomechanics of the Constellation-X SXT mirrors: challenges in mounting and assembling the mirror segments, Kai-Wing Chan et al., SPIE, 2008

• Some Considerations for Precision Metrology of Thin X-ray Mirrors, J.P. Lehan et al., SPIE, 2008

• X-ray imaging tests of Constellation-X SXT mirror segment pairs, Owens Rohrbach et al., SPIE, 2008

• Thin optic constraint, Akilian M, Forest CR, Slocum AH, et al., PRECISION ENGINEERING-JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES FOR PRECISION ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY Volume: 31 Issue: 2 Pages: 130-138 Published: APR 2007

• Repeatable and Accurate Assembly of X-Ray Foil Optics, C. R. Forest, M. Spenko, Y. Sun, A. H. Slocum, R. K. Heilmann, and M. L. Schattenburg, Precision Engineering 30, 63 (2006).

• Metrology of thin transparent optics using Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing, Forest CR, Canizares CR, Neal DR, et al., OPTICAL ENGINEERING, Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 742-75,3 Published: MAR 2004

• X-ray Microcalorimeter Spectrometer

• Multiplexed readout of uniform arrays of TES X-ray… , Caroline Kilbourne et al., SPIE, 2008

• Uniform high spectral resolution demonstrated in arrays of TES x-ray microcalorimeters, Caroline Kilbourne et al., SPIE, 2008

• High-Accuracy X-Ray Foil Optic AssemblyX-Ray Optics, G. P. Monnelly et al., Instruments, and Missions IV, R. B. Hoover and A. B. Walker (eds.),Proc. SPIE 4138, 164 (2000).

• X-ray Grating Spectrometer
• Fabrication and performance of blazed transmission grating…, Ralf Heilmann et al., SPIE, 2008

• Off-plane reflection gratings for Con-X, Randall L. McEntaffer et al., SPIE, 2008

• Spectrometer Concept and Design for X-Ray Astronomy Using a Blazed Transmission Grating, K. Flanagan et al.,Proc. SPIE 6688, 66880Y (2007).

• Thin substrate grating array for sounding rocket and satellite payloads, Ann Shipley et al., SPIE, 2008

• Grating Arrays for High-Throughput Soft X-Ray Spectrometers Optics for EUV, A. Rasmussen et al., X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy, O. Citterio and S. L. O'Dell (eds.),Proc. SPIE 5168, 248 (2004).

• High Timing Resolution Spectrometer

• Development of a prototype nickel optic for the Constellation-X hard x-ray telescope, Suzanne Romaine et al., SPIE, 2007

• A hard x-ray telescope science enhancement package for the Constellation X-Ray mission, Brian Ramsey et al., , SPIE, 2008

• X-ray Polarimeter
• An imaging X-ray polarimeter for the study of galactic and extragalactic X-ray sources, Martin Weisskopf et al., SPIE, 2008

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