Opto-mechanical design of the cosmic hot interstellar plasma spectrometer (CHIPS)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4854, Issue , 2002, Pages 467-478

  Sholl, M ^a   Donakowski, W ^a   Sirk, M M ^a   Clauss, T ^b   Lampton, M ^a   Edelstein, J ^a   Hurwitz, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffuse EUV astronomy; Flexures; Optical mounting; Semi kinematic; Shape memory alloy

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COSMIC RAYS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; IONIZATION; KINEMATICS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PLASMAS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SPACE FLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

COSMIC HOT INTERSTELLAR PLASMA SPECTROMETER; OPTOMECHANICAL DESIGN; SPECTROMETER CHANNELS; THERMAL PRESSURE;

ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0037518205     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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