Characterization of the supermirror hard-x-ray telescope for the InFOCμS balloon experiment

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 5417-5426

  Okajima, Takashi ^a   Tamura, Keisuke ^a   Ogasaka, Yasushi ^a   Haga, Kazutoshi ^a   Takahashi, Seiji ^a   Ichimaru, Satoshi ^a   Kito, Hideo ^a   Fukuda, Shinichi ^a   Goto, Arifumi ^a   Nomoto, Kentaro ^a   Satake, Hiroyuki ^a   Kato, Seima ^a   Kamata, Yuichi ^a   Furuzawa, Akihiro ^a   Akimoto, Fumie ^a   Yoshioka, Tsutomu ^a   Kondo, Kazumasa ^a   Haba, Yoshito ^a   Tanaka, Takeshi ^a   Wada, Keiichi ^a   Hamada, Noriyuki ^a   Hudaverdi, Murat ^a   Tawara, Yuzuru ^a   Yamashita, Koujun ^a   Serlemitsos, Peter J ^b   Soong, Yang ^b   Chan, Kai Wing ^b   Owens, Scott M ^b   Berendse, Fred B ^b   Tueller, Jack ^b   Misaki, Kazutami ^c   Shibata, Ryo ^c   Mori, Hideyuki ^c   Itoh, Kei ^c   Kunieda, Hideyo ^c   Namba, Yoshiharu ^d   more..

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0036714678     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005417     Document Type: Article

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