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Astrophysics: Advanced Techniques in X - Ray Optics
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- These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA’s missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology.
- Our objective is to develop techniques to manufacture x-ray telescopes with five characteristics: high angular resolution, high throughput, light weight, low cost, and efficient production.
- We have also pioneered a precision glass mirror forming technique that we have used for manufacturing the mirrors for the upcoming NuSTAR mission, scheduled for launch in 2012.
- We are developing the glass mirror technology and a corresponding alignment and integration technology to meet the 5 arc-second angular resolution requirement of the International X-ray Observatory.
- We have the laboratory and engineering resources for making, measuring, and testing high quality x-ray mirrors to advance these technologies for missions in this decade as well as future missions with unprecedented angular resolution (better than 0.5 arc-seconds) and photon collection areas (larger than one square meter).
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