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14.6 The Shell_h McXtrace Component
Single Pore as part of the Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) as envisioned for the ATHENA+ space telescope.
Identification
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Author: Erik B Knudsen and Desiree D. M. Ferreira
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Origin: DTU Physics, DTU Space
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Date: Feb. 2016
Description
A single shell is simulated. The top and bottom are curved cylindrically azimuthally, and according to the Wolter I optic lengthwise (sagitally). This is the hyperbolic part. The azimuthal curvature is defined by the radius parameters.
To intersect the Wolter I plates we take advantage of the azimuthal symmetry and only consider the radial component of the photon’s wavevector.
Imperfect mirrors may be modelled using one of 4 models. In all cases the surface normal of the mirror at the ideal mirror intersection point is perturbed before the exit vector is computed. 1. Longitudinal 1D. A perturbation angle is chosen from a uniform distribution with width waviness. 2. Isotropic 2D. The surface normal is perturbed by choosing an angle on a disc with radius waviness 3. Externally measured/computed data. We interpolate in a data-file consisting of blocks of dtheta/theta with 1 block per energy. dtheta is a sampled angle offset from the nominal Fresnel grazing angle theta. 4. Double gaussian. dtheta is chosen from one of two gaussian distributions. Either specular or off-specular, where the widths (sigmas) are given by the tables in the file ”wave_file”. If the off-specular case the behaviour is similar to 2D uniform case.
In the case of 3, the format of the data file should be: #e_min=0.1 #e_max=15 #e_step=0.01 #theta_min=0.01 #theta_max=1.5 #theta_step=0.01 #dtheta_min=-0.02 #dtheta_max=0.02 #dtheta_step=0.001
1.0 0.9 0.8 0.75 ... 0.99 0.89 0.79 0.749 ...
... #block 2 (energy data point 2)
1.0 0.9 0.8 0.75 ... 0.99 0.89 0.79 0.749 ...
...
I.e. one 2D data block per energy data point where rows represent the steps in nominal incident angle, and columns represent the sampled granularity of the off-specular scattering.
Example: Shell_h( radius_m=0.535532, radius_h=0.533113, zdepth=0.5, Z0=FL, yheight=1e-2, R_d=1)
Input parameters
Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.
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Name |
Unit |
Description |
Default |
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radius_m |
m |
Ring radius of the upper (reflecting) plate of the pore at the intersection with the parabolic section. |
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radius_h |
m |
Ring radius of the upper (reflecting) plate of the pore at the edge closest to the focal point. |
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Z0 |
m |
distance between intersection plane and the focal spot( essentially the focal length). |
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yheight |
m |
Height of the pore. (Thus the inner radius is radius_{m,h}-yehight |
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chamferwidth |
m |
Width of side walls. |
0 |
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gap |
m |
gap between intersection with parabolic section and actual plate. |
0 |
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zdepth |
m |
Currently not used by the component |
0 |
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mirror_reflec |
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Data file containing reflectivities of the reflector surface (TOP). |
”” |
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bottom_reflec |
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Data file containing reflectivities of the bottom surface (BOTTOM). |
”” |
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wave_file |
str |
Data file with the waviness distribution, used when wave_model is non-zero |
”” |
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R_d |
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Default reflectivity value to use if no reflectivity file is given. Useful f.i. is one surface is reflecting and the others absorbing. |
1 |
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wave_model |
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Flag to choose waviness model. 1. longitudinal uniform, 2. 2D-uniform, 3. lorentzian sagittal, 4. double gaussian sagittal. See above for details. |
0 |
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waviness |
rad |
Waviness of the pore reflecting surface. The slope error is assumed to be uniformly distributed in the interval [-waviness:waviness]. |
0 |
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verbose |
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If !=0 output extra info during simulation. |
0 |
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Links
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Component source code found in file Shell_h.comp.
