PDS experiment on board the BeppoSAX satellite: Design and in-flight performance results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3114, Issue , 1997, Pages 206-215

  Frontera, F ^a   Costa, E ^a   Dal Fiume, D ^a   Feroci, M ^a   Nicastro, L ^a   Orlandini, M ^a   Palazzi, E ^a   Zavattini, G ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astronomical instrumentation; Hard X ray astronomy; High energy astrophysics

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; X RAYS;

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

SATELLITES;

EID: 0031288812     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.283770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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