Lobster-ISS: An imaging X-ray all-sky monitor for the International Space Station

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4497, Issue , 2002, Pages 115-126

  Fraser, G W ^a   Brunton, A N ^a   Bannister, N P ^a   Pearson, J F ^a   Ward, M J ^a   Stevenson, T ^a   Watson, D J ^a   Warwick, B ^a   Whitehead, S ^a   O'brien, P T ^a   White, N ^b   Jahoda, K ^b   Black, K ^b   Hunter, S D ^b   Deines Jones, P ^b   Priedhorsky, W C ^c   Brumby, S P ^c   Borozdin, K N ^c   Vestrand, T ^c   Fabian, A C ^d   Nugent, K ^e   Peele, A ^e   Irving, T H ^e   Price, S ^f   Eckersley, S ^f   Renouf, I ^f   Smith, M ^f   Parmar, A ^g   McHardy, I M ^h   Uttley, P ^h   Lawrence, A ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^g EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ISS: all sky monitor; Lobster; X ray: instrumentation

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE STATIONS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; X RAYS;

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION; MICRO-WELL DETECTORS; X RAY OBSERVATORIES; X RAY SOURCE;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0012463048     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454217     Document Type: Article

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