EP satellite is a scientific exploration satellite for time-domain astronomy and high-energy astrophysics, its function is to carry out high-energy transitory celestial body survey with the highest sensitivity in the soft x-ray band. EP will be equipped with two groups of x-rays focusing mirrors (each group contains 54 Wolter-I mirrors). An x-ray focusing mirror is used to collect x-ray radiation in the universe, and is the core component of an x-ray astronomical satellite observation payload. The current x-ray focusing mirrors are derived from the Wolter-I reflector, and the light is focused through the inner surface. The inner reflection surface is an optical free-form surface connected by parabolic and hyperbolic surfaces. Many conventional measurement methods are not applicable and difficult to measure. High precision contact measurement is easy to scratch the mirror surface, Therefore, non-contact measurement must be used. In this paper, we develop two non-contact surface precision measurement devices are developed to solve the problem of difficult measurement of the inner reflection surface of the x-ray focusing mirror. One is a rapid measurement device based on the principle of optical star measurement method, The other is to measure the mirror inner surface by a single point scan measurement, the optical triangulation method is selected as the principle of the measurement device. We then verified the measurement accuracy of the mirrors with a precision visible light test system. In order to further verify the measurement accuracy of the focusing mirrors, x-ray testing of the focusing mirror was carried out at the 100-meter vacuum x-ray calibration facility of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The x-ray measurement results are better than the project index requirements.
EP satellite is a scientific exploration satellite for time-domain astronomy and high-energy astrophysics, its function is to carry out high-energy transitory celestial body survey with the highest sensitivity in the soft X-ray band. EP will be equipped with two groups of x-rays focusing mirrors (each group contains 54 Wolter-I mirrors). An X-ray focusing mirror is used to collect X-ray radiation in the universe, and is the core component of an X-ray astronomical satellite observation payload. The current X-ray focusing mirrors are derived from the Wolter-I reflector, and the light is focused through the inner surface. The inner reflection surface is an optical free-form surface connected by parabolic and hyperbolic surfaces. Many conventional measurement methods are not applicable and difficult to measure. High precision contact measurement is easy to scratch the mirror surface, Therefore, noncontact measurement must be used. In this paper, we develop two non-contact surface precision measurement devices are developed to solve the problem of difficult measurement of the inner reflection surface of the X-ray focusing mirror. One is a rapid measurement device based on the principle of optical star measurement method, The other is to measure the mirror inner surface by a single point scan measurement, the optical triangulation method is selected as the principle of the measurement device. We then verified the measurement accuracy of the mirrors with a precision visible light test system. In order to further verify the measurement accuracy of the focusing mirrors, X-ray testing of the focusing mirror was carried out at the 100-meter vacuum X-ray calibration facility of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The X-ray measurement results are better than the project index requirements.
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