X-ray telescope onboard Astro-E: Optical design and fabrication of thin foil mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 553-564

  Kunieda, Hideyo ^a   Ishida, Manabu ^a   Endo, Takao ^a   Hidaka, Yasuhiro ^a   Honda, Hirohiko ^a   Imamura, Kohsuke ^a   Ishida, Jun’ichi ^a   Maeda, Masamichi ^a   Misaki, Kazutami ^a   Shibata, Ryo ^a   Furuzawa, Akihiro ^b   Haga, Kazutoshi ^b   Ogasaka, Yasushi ^b   Okajima, Takashi ^b   Tawara, Yuzuru ^b   Terashima, Yuichi ^b   Watanabe, Manabu ^b   Yamashita, Koujun ^b   Yoshioka, Tsutomu ^b   Serlemitsos, Peter J ^c   Soong, Yang ^c   Chan, Kai Wing ^c   more..

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; METAL FOIL; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SATELLITES;

X-RAY TELESCOPES;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0001316377     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000553     Document Type: Article

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