White Papers, etc.

2021

• Critical-Angle Transmission Grating Spectrometers
  D. P. Huenemoerder and R. K. Heilmann,
  The WSPC Handbook of Astronomical Instrumentation, Vol. 4, X-Ray Astronomical Instrumentation
  Chapter 12, 2021.

2019

• The Lynx Concept Study Report
  2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey Mission Concept Studies, August 2019.

• Lynx X-ray Observatory
  A. Vikhlinin et al.,
  2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey APC White Paper, July 2019.

• Laboratory Astrophysics Needs for X-ray Calorimeter Observatories
  T. Kallmann et al.,
  2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey APC White Paper, July 2019.

• The X-ray Grating Spectroscopy Probe
  R. McEntaffer et al.,
  2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey APC White Paper, July 2019.

• Laboratory Astrophysics Needs for X-ray Grating Spectrometers
  R. Smith et al.,
  2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey APC White Paper, July 2019.

 

2018

• The Lynx Interim Report
  2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey Mission Concept Studies, August 2018.

 

2016

• High-Resolution X-ray Gratings Enable State-of-the-Art Spectrometer
  NASA Science Mission Directorate: Technology Highlights 2016, pp. 14-15 (2016).

 

2013

• X-ray Optics for BES Light Source Facilities
  DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences Workshop Report, Chapters on Grating Optics (D. Cocco, T. Warwick et al.) and Nanodiffractive Optics (P. Naulleau, S. Vogt et al.) (2013).

• Technology Development Roadmap for a Near-term Probe-class X-ray Astrophysics Mission
  NASA Physics of the Cosmos X-ray Probe Study (2013).

 

2011

• Critical-Angle Transmission Gratings for High Resolution, Large Area Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy
  R. K. Heilmann et al.
  Enabling Technology and Instrument Concept in Response to NASA RFI on “Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission” (Solicitation Number NNH11ZDA018L) (2011).
• AEGIS – An Astrophysics Experiment for Grating and Imaging Spectroscopy
  M. W. Bautz et al.
  X-Ray Mission Concept in Response to NASA RFI on “Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission” (Solicitation Number NNH11ZDA018L) (2011).
• AXSIO – The Advanced X-Ray Spectroscopic Imaging Observatory
  J. Bookbinder et al.
  X-Ray Mission Concept in Response to NASA RFI on “Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission” (Solicitation Number NNH11ZDA018L) (2011).
• Soft X-Ray Polarimetry
  H. Marshall et al.
  Enabling Technology and Instrument Concept in Response to NASA RFI on “Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission” (Solicitation Number NNH11ZDA018L) (2011).
• Reflection Grating Spectrometers
  R. McEntaffer et al.
  Enabling Technology and Instrument Concept in Response to NASA RFI on “Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission” (Solicitation Number NNH11ZDA018L) (2011).
• SMART-X, Square Meter, Arcsecond Resolution X-Ray Telescope
  A. Vikhlinin et al.
  X-Ray Mission Concept in Response to NASA RFI on “Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission” (Solicitation Number NNH11ZDA018L) (2011).

 

2009

• A Few Thoughts on the Wisdom of Systematic and Consistent Funding of Technology Development for Larger Missions
  R. K. Heilmann and M. L. Schattenburg
  Technology Development White Paper response to Astro2010 Decadal Survey (2009).
• The Importance of General Technology Development: The Example of the Critical-Angle Transmission Grating
  R. K. Heilmann, D. P. Huenemoerder, and M. L. Schattenburg
  Technology Development White Paper response to Astro2010 Decadal Survey (2009).
• Generation-X Grating Array Technology Development
  R. L. McEntaffer, W. Cash, R. K. Heilmann, and M. L. Schattenburg
  Technology Development White Paper response to Astro2010 Decadal Survey (2009).
• A Soft X-Ray Polarimeter
  H. L. Marshall, R. K. Heilmann, and N. S. Schulz
  Technology Development White Paper response to Astro2010 Decadal Survey (2009).
• Distribution and Structure of Matter in and around Galaxies
  N. S. Schulz et al.
  Science White Paper response to Astro2010 Decadal Survey (2009).
• Structure and Evolution of Pre-Main Sequence Stars
  N. S. Schulz et al.
  Science White Paper response to Astro2010 Decadal Survey (2009).

 

2006

• Transmission Grating Spectrometer for Constellation-X
  K. Flanagan, J. Davis, R. K. Heilmann, D. Huenemoerder, A. Levine, H. Marshall, G. Prigozhin, G. Ricker, M. Schattenburg, N. Schulz, and A. Rasmussen
  White Paper response to NASA solicitation 210S-GBG-06-001 (2006).

 

2004

• A Brief History of Gratings and the Making of the MIT Nanoruler
  C. G. Chen and M. L. Schattenburg (2004).