Polarizing properties of grazing-incidence X-ray mirrors - Comment

Bibcode
1993ApOpt..32.4231S
DOI
10.1364/AO.32.004231
Sanchez Almeida, J.; Martinez Pillet, V.
Referencia bibliográfica

Applied Optics (ISSN 0003-6935), vol. 32, no. 22, p. 4231-4235.

Fecha de publicación:
8
1993
Número de autores
2
Número de autores del IAC
2
Número de citas
14
Número de citas referidas
12
Descripción
We show that grazing-incidence telescopes, like those used for X-ray imaging, present negligible instrumental polarization. This property does not depend on the number of reflections the telescope employs to lead light from the entrance pupil to the focal plane. The result applies to the various mirrors of the advanced X-ray astrophysics facility satellite. In this particular case we have quantified the residual instrumental polarization to be between 10 exp -3 and 5 x 10 exp -5, depending on the size of the resolution elements.
Tipo
Con árbitro
Telescopios de incidencia rasante
Polarimetría

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