Design of a soft-gamma-ray focusing telescope for the study of nuclear lines

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1356-1365

  Hubert Chen, C M ^a   Christensen, Finn E ^b   Harrison, Fiona A ^a   Mao, Peter H ^a   Windt, David L ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma ray astrophysics; Multilayer optimization; Type la supernova

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; BAND STRUCTURE; BANDWIDTH; GAMMA RAYS; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS;

NUCLEAR LINES;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037619037     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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