Light weight, thin plastic foil, X-ray telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4496, Issue , 2002, Pages 41-53

  Schnopper, Herbert W ^a   Barbera, Marco ^a   Silver, Eric ^a   Ingram, Russell ^a   Christensen, Finn E ^a   Romaine, Suzanne ^a   Cohen, Lester ^a   Collura, Alfonso ^a   Murray, Stephen S ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LENSES; MIRRORS; PLASTICS; SPACE RESEARCH; TELESCOPES;

CYLINDER LENSES; PLASTIC FOIL; X RAY TELESCOPES;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 0036396618     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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