INAF - OA-Brera

A wide field X-ray telescope for astronomical survey purposes: from theory to practice

Conconi, Paolo, Campana, Sergio , Tagliaferri, Gianpiero , Pareschi, Giovanni , Citterio, Oberto , Cotroneo, Vincenzo , Proserpio, Laura , Civitani, Marta

2010, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 405, Issue 2, pp. 877-886.

Citations: 14 I.F.: 12.25 Citations/Authors: 1.75

POLARIX: a pathfinder mission of X-ray polarimetry

Costa, E., Bellazzini, R., Tagliaferri, G. , Matt, G., Argan, A., Attinà, P., Baldini, L., Basso, S. , Brez, A., Citterio, O. , diCosimo, S., et al.

2010, Experimental Astronomy, Volume 28, Issue 2-3, pp. 137-183

Citations: 18 I.F.: 3.27 Citations/Authors: 0.55

The Italian contribution to the EXIST mission

Natalucci, L., Tagliaferri, G. , Caraveo, P., Pareschi, G. , Ubertini, P., Villa, G.

2010, Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana, v.81, p.482 (2010)

Wide Field X-ray Telescope: a moderate class mission

Murray, Stephen S., Giacconi, R., Ptak, A., Rosati, P., Weisskopf, M., Borgani, S., Jones, C., Pareschi, G. , Tozzi, P., Gilli, R., Campana, S. , et al.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 77321W, 7 pp. (2010).

Citations: 9 I.F.: 1.59 Citations/Authors: 0.53

NHXM: a New Hard X-ray Imaging and Polarimetric Mission

Campana, Sergio , Argan, Andrea, Bellazzini, Ronaldo, Catalano, Osvaldo, Costa, Enrico, Cusumano, Giancarlo, Fiore, Fabrizio, Fiorini, Carlo, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Matt, Giorgio, Mereghetti, Sandro, et al.

2010, 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 18-15 July 2010, in Bremen, Germany, p.17

IXO x-ray mirrors based on slumped glass segments with reinforcing ribs: optical and mechanical design, image error budget, and optics unit integration process

Civitani, M. , Basso, S. , Bavdaz, M., Citterio, O. , Conconi, P., Gallieni, D., Ghigo, M. , Guldimann, B., Martelli, F., Pagano, G., Pareschi, G. , et al.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 773242, 19 pp. (2010).

Citations: 8 I.F.: 3.79 Citations/Authors: 0.42

Effects of the coating optimization on the field of view for a Wolter X-ray Telescope

Cotroneo, V. , Pareschi, G. , Spiga, D. , Tagliaferri, G.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 77322P, 8 pp. (2010).

Citations: 2 I.F.: 2 Citations/Authors: 0.5

Hot slumping glass technology for the grazing incidence optics of future missions with particular reference to IXO

Ghigo, M. , Basso, S. , Bavdaz, M., Conconi, P., Citterio, O. , Civitani, M. , Friedrich, P., Gallieni, D., Guldimann, B., Martelli, F., Negri, R., et al.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 77320C, 12 pp. (2010).

Citations: 5 I.F.: 1.8 Citations/Authors: 0.2

Thin gold layer in NiCo and Ni electroforming process: optical surface characterization

Sironi, G. , Spiga, D. , Raimondi, L., Pareschi, G. , Orlandi, A., Borghi, G., Missaglia, N., Negri, B.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 77322R, 8 pp. (2010).

Citations: 4 I.F.: 1.5 Citations/Authors: 0.5

Thermal shaping of thin glass substrates for segmented grazing incidence active optics

Proserpio, L. , Civitani, Marta , Ghigo, Mauro , Pareschi, Giovanni

2010, Adaptive X-Ray Optics. Edited by Khounsary, Ali M.; O'Dell, Stephen L.; Restaino, Sergio R. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7803, article id. 78030K, 11 pp. (2010).

Citations: 1 I.F.: 1 Citations/Authors: 0.25

Design and development of thin quartz glass WFXT polynomial mirror shells by direct polishing

Proserpio, L. , Campana, S. , Citterio, O. , Civitani, M. , Combrinck, H., Conconi, P., Cotroneo, V. , Freeman, R., Langstrof, P., Mattaini, E., Morton, R., et al.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 77320D, 14 pp. (2010).

Citations: 2 I.F.: 0.78 Citations/Authors: 0.11

The Wide Field X-ray Telescope Mission-A Digital Sky Survey in X-rays

Murray, S., Giacconi, R., Ptak, A., Rosati, P., Weisskopf, M., Borgani, S., Jones, C., Pareschi, G. , Tozzi, P., Gilli, R., Campana, S. , et al.

2010, X-RAY ASTRONOMY 2009; PRESENT STATUS, MULTI-WAVELENGTH APPROACH AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES: Proceedings of the International Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1248, pp. 549-554 (2010).

Citations: 3 I.F.: 0.53 Citations/Authors: 0.18

The optics system of the New Hard X-ray Mission: design and development

Basso, S. , Pareschi, G. , Citterio, O. , Spiga, D. , Tagliaferri, G. , Civitani, M. , Raimondi, L., Sironi, G. , Cotroneo, V. , Negri, B., Parodi, G., et al.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 773218, 11 pp. (2010).

Citations: 1 I.F.: 0.4 Citations/Authors: 0.05

The high-energy detector of the New Hard X-ray Mission (NHXM): design concept

Bellazzini, R., Brez, A., Minuti, M., Pinchera, M., Spandre, G., Argan, A., Catalano, O., Costa, E., Fiorini, C., Malaguti, G., Pareschi, G. , et al.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 77323O, 8 pp. (2010).

Citations: 2 I.F.: 0.31 Citations/Authors: 0.15

Design and scientific performance of the soft x-ray imager on board EXIST

Natalucci, Lorenzo, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero , Bazzano, Angela, Caraveo, Patrizia, Della Ceca, Roberto , Grindlay, Jonathan E., Pareschi, Giovanni , Ramsey, Brian D., Ubertini, Pietro, Uslenghi, Michela C. A.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 77321Z, 10 pp. (2010).

Citations: 1 I.F.: 0.3 Citations/Authors: 0.1

Composite panels for optical mirrors for Cherenkov Telescopes: development of the cold glass slumping technology

Canestrari, R., Motta, G., Pareschi, G. , Basso, S. , Doro, M., Giro, E., Lessio, L.

2010, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation. Edited by Atad-Ettedgui, Eli; Lemke, Dietrich. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7739, article id. 77390H, 15 pp. (2010).

Citations: 1 I.F.: 0.29 Citations/Authors: 0.14

Polarimetry: a (new?) tool for X-ray astronomy.

Muleri, F., Basso, S. , Bellazzini, R., Brez, A., Costa, E., Cotroneo, V. , Di Cosimo, S., Fabiani, S., Lazzarotto, F., Matt, G., Minuti, M., et al.

2010, Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana, v.81, p.488 (2010)

Citations: 1 I.F.: 0.24 Citations/Authors: 0.06

The NHXM spectral-imaging cameras

Catalano, O., Argan, A., Bellazzini, R., Brez, A., Costa, E., Fiorini, C., Malaguti, G., Pareschi, G. , Tagliaferri, G. , Uslenghi, M.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 773219, 6 pp. (2010).

Citations: 1 I.F.: 0.2 Citations/Authors: 0.1

The New Hard X-ray Mission

Pareschi, G. , Tagliaferri, G. , Argan, A., Bellazzini, R., Catalano, O., Costa, E., Cusumano, G., Fiore, F., Fiorini, C., Malaguti, G., Matt, G., et al.

2010, X-RAY ASTRONOMY 2009; PRESENT STATUS, MULTI-WAVELENGTH APPROACH AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES: Proceedings of the International Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1248, pp. 567-576 (2010).

Citations: 1 I.F.: 0.13 Citations/Authors: 0.07

3D characterization of thin glass x-ray mirrors via optical profilometry

Civitani, M. , Ghigo, M. , Citterio, O. , Conconi, P., Spiga, D. , Pareschi, G. , Proserpio, L.

2010, Adaptive X-Ray Optics. Edited by Khounsary, Ali M.; O'Dell, Stephen L.; Restaino, Sergio R. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7803, article id. 78030L, 13 pp. (2010).

Composite Glass Panels for Stiff and Lightweight Optical Mirrors: a Novel Approach with Preliminary Results

Canestrari, R., Pareschi, G. , Ghigo, M. and Motta , G.

2010, ICSO 2010 - International Conference on Space Optics

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT BY DIRECT POLISHING OF THE WFXT THIN POLYNOMIAL MIRROR SHELLS

Proserpio, L ; Campana , S ; Citterio, O ; Civitani, M ; Combrinck, H ; Conconi, P ; Cotroneo, V ; Freeman, R ; Mattini, E ; Langstrof, P ; Morton, R ; Motta, G ; Oberle, O ; Pareschi, G ; Parodi, G ; Pels, C ; Schenk, C ; Stock, R ; Tagliaferri, G

2010, ICSO 2010 - International Conference on Space Optics

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

Tagliaferri, Gianpiero , Natalucci, L., Basso, S. , Bazzano, A., Caraveo, P., Conconi, P., Grindlay, J. E., Pareschi, G. , Ubertini, P., Uslenghi, M., Villa, G., et al.

2010, American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #402.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.222

Technologies for manufacturing of high angular resolution multilayer coated optics for the New Hard X-ray Mission: a status report II

Vernani, D., Borghi, G., Binda, R., Citterio, O. , Grisoni, G., Kools, J., Marioni, F., Orlandi, A., Ritucci, A., Sironi, G. , Valsecchi, G., et al.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 77323P, 9 pp. (2010).

The Soft X-ray Imager on board EXIST

Natalucci, L., Bazzano, A., Panessa, F., Ubertini, P., Tagliaferri, G. , Della Ceca, R. , Ghisellini, G. , Pareschi, G. , Villa, G., Caraveo, P., Fiorini, M., et al.

2010, eprint arXiv:1002.1194

The x-ray camera of the EXIST/SXI telescope

Uslenghi, Michela, Fiorini, Mauro, Mereghetti, Sandro, Villa, Gabriele E., Bazzano, Angela, Caraveo, Patrizia A., Fiorini, Carlo E., Grindlay, Jonathan E., Natalucci, Lorenzo, Pareschi, Giovanni , Tagliaferri, Gianpiero , et al.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 77324B, 8 pp. (2010).

The x-ray mirrors for the EXIST/SXI telescope

Basso, Stefano , Tagliaferri, Gianpiero , Natalucci, Lorenzo, Parodi, Giancarlo, Villa, Gabriele E., Bazzano, Angela, Caraveo, Patrizia A., Conconi, Paolo, Della Ceca, Roberto , Grindlay, Jonathan E., Pareschi, Giovanni , et al.

2010, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edited by Arnaud, Monique; Murray, Stephen S.; Takahashi, Tadayuki. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7732, article id. 77324C, 9 pp. (2010).

Variable and transient sources with the Wide Field X-ray Telescope

Paolillo, Maurizio, de Martino, D., Della Valle, M., Gilli, R., Tozzi, P., Rosati, P., Borgani, S., Pareschi, G. , Wfxt Team

2010, 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 18-15 July 2010, in Bremen, Germany, p.2

X-ray tests at PANTER on the TDM1 optic prototype for the New Hard X-ray Mission

Spiga, D. , Raimondi, L., Valsecchi, G., Orlandi, A., Borghi, G., Salmaso, G., Marchi, E. B., Binda, R., Basso, S. , Marioni, F., Ferretti, L., et al.

2010, INAF/OAB internal report 05/2010

X-ray tests at PANTER on the TDM2 optic prototype for the New Hard X-ray Mission

Spiga, D. , Raimondi, L., Salmaso, B. , Valsecchi, G., Orlandi, A., Borghi, G., Binda, R., Basso, S. , Borrelli, D., Marioni, F., Ferretti, L., et al.

2010, INAF/OAB internal report 06/2010

Replica processes for mirror manufacturing: glass slumping and Foamglas backing

Canestrari, R., Pareschi, G. , Ghigo, M.

2010, The Alt-Az Initiative: telescope, mirror and instrument developments

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