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.
Bibliographical reference

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

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8
1993
Number of authors
2
IAC number of authors
2
Citations
14
Refereed citations
13
Description
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.
Type
Refereed
Grazing incidence telescopes
Polarimetry

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