Systems engineering analysis of aplanatic Wolter type I x-ray telescopes

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1677-1691

  Thompson, Patrick L ^a   Harvey, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WEATHER SATELLITES; X RAY APPARATUS;

APLANATIC; GEOSYNCHRONOUS WEATHER SATELLITES; GRAZING INCIDENCE; SOLAR X RAY IMAGER; WOLTER TYPE I; X RAY TELESCOPES;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0034205769     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602545     Document Type: Article

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