SXI: The Soft X-ray Imager on Board of the EXIST Mission

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Jan 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21540201t&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #402.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.222

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), sensitive in the 0.1-10 keV band, is a X-ray telescope foreseen on board of the EXIST mission. SXI is proposed as a contribution of ASI, the Italian space agency, and it is fully developed by Italian institutes. The current optical design is based on 26 mirror-shells and provides an effective area comparable to one XMM-Newton mirror module up to 3 keV and somewhat lower from 3 to 10 keV. The realization of these shells is based on the well-proven Nichel replication-process technology. We present the optical design of the SXI mirror module and describe its characteristics in term of effective area and imaging capability, summarizing also the characteristics of the full SXI telescope.
Acknowledgement: the study of the SXI telescope in Italy is carried out at the INAF-OABr, INAF-IASF_Milano and INAF-IASF_Roma Institutes and is financed by the Italian Space Agency under the ASI contract I/088/06/0.

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