Fresnel zone plates for Achromatic Imaging Survey of X-ray sources
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2010-12-13 v1
Abstract
A telescope with Fresnel Zone Plates has been contemplated to be an excellent imaging mask in X-rays and gamma-rays for quite some time. With a proper choice of zone plate material, spacing and an appropriate readout system it is possible to achieve any theoretical angular resolution. We provide the results of numerical simulations of how a large number of X-ray sources could be imaged at a high resolution. We believe that such an imager would be an excellent tool for a future survey mission for X-ray and gamma-ray sources which we propose.
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@article{arxiv.0903.1540,
title = {Fresnel zone plates for Achromatic Imaging Survey of X-ray sources},
author = {S. Palit and S. K. Chakrabarti and D. Debnath and V. Yadav and A. Nandi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1540},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 Pages, 5 Figures, Proceeding of the 2nd Kolkata Conference on "Observational Evidence for the Black Holes in the Universe", Published in AIP, 2008