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Wide-field X-ray optics

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Flares and Flashes

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Classical X-ray mirror optics usually has a limited Field of View (FoV) of ≈ 1°. Wide-field imaging can be achieved by lobster-eye type reflecting X-ray optics. We summarise several different approaches and suggest an innovative technology for the production of X-ray reflecting flats and cells necessary to develop one- or two-dimensional wide-field X-ray optics. The technology is based on double-sided, replicated reflecting foils produced by electroforming and CF/composite technologies.

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  1. Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, 251 65, Ondřejov, Czech Republic

    René Hudec

  2. KOMA, Composite Materials, K lesu 965, CZ-142 00, Praha 4, Czech Republic

    Adolf Inneman

  3. Faculty of Nuclear Engineering, Czech Technical University, Břehová 7, CZ-115 01, Praha 1, Czech Republic

    Ladislav Pina

  4. Development-Optical Workshop of the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Skálova 89, CZ-511 01, Turnov, Czech Republic

    Petr Řehák

  5. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Paul Gorenstein

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  1. René Hudec
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Jochen Greiner Hilmar W. Duerbeck Roald E. Gershberg

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Hudec, R., Inneman, A., Pina, L., Řehák, P., Gorenstein, P. (1995). Wide-field X-ray optics. In: Greiner, J., Duerbeck, H.W., Gershberg, R.E. (eds) Flares and Flashes. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 454. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60057-4_327

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