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The Square Meter Arcsecond Resolution Telescope

Presentation duration: 20 minutes

Presenter: Dan Schwartz

We have conceived an X-ray observatory mission featuring a Square Meter Arcsecond Resolution Telescope: SMART-X. The heart of the mission is the half-arcsecond HPW telescope. We expect to achieve this resolution by depositing piezoelectric crystals on the back of slumped glass Wolter-Schwarzchild mirrors, depositing electrodes to create a pixelated array of adjusters, and using them to correct the low order figure errors. We present an outline of our technology development plan, and an overview of the science enabled by such a mission.

J. Cotroneo, W. Davis, M. Freeman, P. B. Reid, J. Bookbinder, H. Tananbaum, Alexey Vikhlinin, R. J. Brissenden, W. R. Forman, S. S. Murray, S. O'Dell, B. Ramsey, S. Romaine, S. Trolier-McKinstry, R.
H. T. Wilke, and the SMART-X team at
SAO, PSU, MIT, GSFC, MSFC, JHU, Stanford, U.Waterloo, Rutgers, NIST

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