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The ATHENA_1mm Instrument

Single pore version of the ATHENA SPO-optic in use as telescope.

Identification

• Site: AstroX_ESA
• Author: Erik B Knudsen & Desiree D. M. Ferreira (email)
• Origin: DTU Physics/DTU Space
• Date: 12/12/2016

Description

A model of the ATHENA-telescope using just a single mirror module as optical element. That means to make use of this instrument
it is necessary to run a series of simulation while varying the input parameter porenumber.
At present, the porenumber really means mirror module number.

The model needs as input a set of files: A Mirror Module definition file and a ring definition file.
The former contains overall definitions of mirror modules and their positions - the latter contains details about each plate.
There is some redundancy between the two files. The latter will be rendered unnecessary in a later version.
An example of mmdef_file is "MM_Definitions-cfgA.csv" which is distributed by ESA.
An example of ringfile is "ref_design.dat" which is taken from the ATHENA_reference design white-paper.

Reflectivity may be modelled using a datafile. In this telscope model only the top (intentionally reflecting) surface
is given a data-file. However, the MM-components can cope with non-zero reflectivity for side-walls and bottom surfaces.
The reflectivity datafile follows a simple ascii-format with 6 header lines the define the ranges in energy E and grazing
angle theta, followed by a 2D-data block with reflectivity numbers. This is expected to be substituted for a 1D-parametrization '
in q, to avoid overly lagre data-files.

Example: ATHENA_cfgA_1mm.instr porenumber=3

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name	Unit	Description	Default
FL	m	The focal length of the optical system	12
optics_dist	m	The distance between souce and optic. In space this would be quite large :-).	10
XWidth	m	The width of the user detector default is that of the ATHENA WFI large area detector	0.13312
YHeight	m	The height of the user detector default is that of the ATHENA WFI large area detector	0.13312
NX		Number of pixels along X in the user detector	1024
NY		Number of pixels along Y in the user detector.	1024
offaxis_angle	arcmin	Angle of collimated light from source	0
dPx	m	Offset/displacement of parabolic pore along x from its theoretical position.	0
dPy	m	Offset/displacement of parabolic pore along y from its theoretical position.	0
dPz	m	Offset/displacement of parabolic pore along z from its theoretical position.	0
dPrx	arcsec	Rotational misalignment of parabolic pore around x.	0
dPry	arcsec	Rotational misalignment of parabolic pore around y.	0
dPrz	arcsec	Rotational misalignment of parabolic pore around z.	0
dHx	m	Offset/displacement of hyperbolic pore along x from its theoretical position.	0
dHy	m	Offset/displacement of hyperbolic pore along y from its theoretical position.	0
dHz	m	Offset/displacement of hyperbolic pore along z from its theoretical position.	0
dHrx	arcsec	Rotational misalignment of hyperbolic pore around x.	0
dHry	arcsec	Rotational misalignment of hyperbolic pore around y.	0
dHrz	arcsec	Rotational misalignment of hyperbolic pore around z.	0
reflectivity		Data file containing reflectivities (such as from IMD)	"mirror_coating_unity.txt"
default_reflec		Default reflectivity value to use if no reflectivity file is given.	0
E0	keV	Central energy of X-rays	5
dE	keV	Half spread of energy spectrum to be emitted from source	0.001
porenumber		Actually the mirror module number.	1
mmdef_file		File containing the positions and overall geometry of Mirror Modules.	"MM_Definitions-cfgA.csv"
ringfile		File which contains deatiled plate descriptions.	"ref_design_breaks.txt"
Hyper		If non-zero the secondary mirror (hyperbolic) is active. Useful for debugging.	1
Para		If non-zero the primary mirror is acive (parabolic) is active. Useful for debugging.	1
lists		If non-zero drop event mode monitr are active. Turn-off to save disk-space.	0

Links

• Source code for ATHENA_cfgA_1mm.instr.
• The ATHENA web pages @ ESA

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