Wide field x-ray telescopes: Detecting x-ray transients/afterglows related to GRBs
- Astronomical Institute of Czech Academy of Science, Observatory Ondrejov, 251 65 Ondrejov (Czech Republic)
- Faculty of Nuclear Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague (Czech Republic)
- Department of Precision Mechanics and Optics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague (Czech Republic)
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
The recent discovery of X-ray afterglows of GRBs opens the possibility of analyses of GRBs by their X-ray detections. However, imaging X-ray telescopes in current use mostly have limited fields of view. Alternative X-ray optics geometries achieving very large fields of view have been theoretically suggested in the 70's but not constructed and used so far. We review the geometries and basic properties of the wide-field X-ray optical systems based on one- and two-dimensional lobster-eye geometry and suggest technologies for their development and construction. First results of the development of double replicated X-ray reflecting flats for use in one-dimensional X-ray optics of lobster-eye type are presented and discussed. The optimum strategy for locating GRBs upon their X-ray counterparts is also presented and discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 21185803
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 428, Issue 1; Conference: 4. Huntsville gamma-ray burst symposium, Huntsville, AL (United States), 15-20 Sep 1997; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.55460; (c) 1998 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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