PBP: A Slumped Micropore Optic Simulator
Abstract
Slumped micropore optics (lobster-eye optics) have been proposed for a number of wide-field X-ray imagers in both astro- and helio-physics (SVOM, TAO, DXG, CuPID, SMILE and STORM). We have developed a Pore-By-Pore simulator for such optics which has been used to simulate the throughput for a number of missions. This work describes the fundamental equations and overall philosophy for this simulator, as well as the equations and structure required for a more rigorous modeling of the shape and size of the PSF. The PSF modeling will be included in the next generation Pore-By-Pore simulator.
- Publication:
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AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division
- Pub Date:
- March 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019HEAD...1710971K