Incoming metrology of segmented x-ray mandrels at MSFC

摘要

The baseline design of the Constellation-X Spectroscopy X-ray telescope (SXT) employs segmented x-ray mirrors, to be replicated from precision mandrels. Thus far, the Constellation-X Project has procured and received three (3) flight-scale mandrels, for use in development of mirror technologies. Complementary to 30° sections of 10-m-focal-length Wolter-1 optics of diameters 1.6, 1.2, and 1.0 m, the mandrels' primary (parabolic) and secondary (hyperbolic) optical surfaces are each 0.5-m long. In order to generate surface maps for x-ray performance predictions, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is conducting incoming metrology. Using a combination of instruments, this metrology measures axial-slope deviations and axial profiles, slope differences, roundness, absolute radius, and micro-roughness. This paper describes the mandrels, the metrology requirements, and MSFC's metrology instrumentation and procedures.