Simulating x-ray interferometric observations
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, pp. 341
Abstract
X-ray Interferometry (XRI) promises to achieve imaging resolutions below 100 µas with a maximum baseline of ~ 1 m on a single spacecraft, enabled by the compact telephoto optical design introduced by Willingale (2004). Here we describe the approach of simulating XRI observations with XRIsalis, the X-ray Interferometry Simulation and Analysis Software, for the X-ray Interferometric Space Telescope - XRIstel. The end-to-end simulator features source photon sampling, simulation of the optics and generation of interferometric fringes in the detector plane through single-photon processing, concluding with image reconstruction using the inverse Fourier transform of the interferogram. The simulator is Python-based and handles inputs ranging from simple brightness distributions to spectral data cubes from advanced source models.
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Space Research Organisation Netherlands · University of Amsterdam
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Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (Netherlands)
SRON (Netherlands)
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Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (Netherlands)
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Space Research Organisation Netherlands
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SRON (Netherlands)
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Space Research Organisation Netherlands · University of Amsterdam
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Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek (Netherlands)
SRON Space Research Organization Netherlands (Netherlands)
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Leiden Univ. (Netherlands)
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University of Bristol · University of Amsterdam
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Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (Netherlands)
University of Bristol (United Kingdom)
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