B-MINE, the balloon-borne microcalorimeter nuclear line explorer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 905-912

  Silver, E ^a   Schnopper, H ^a   Jones, C ^a   Forman, W ^a   Bandler, S ^a   Murray, S ^a   Romaine, S ^a   Slane, P ^a   Grindlay, J ^a   Madden, N ^b   Beeman, J ^b   Haller, E E ^b   Smith, D ^c   Barbera, M ^h   Collura, A ^h   Christensen, F ^h   Ramsey, B ^h   Woosley, S ^d   Diehl, R ^e   Tucker, G ^f   Fabregat, J ^g   Reglero, V ^g   Gimenez, A ^h   more..

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^h NONE

Author keywords

Balloon; Microcalorimeter; Supernova; X ray Astronomy; X ray Optics

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BALLOONS; CALORIMETERS; X RAY OPTICS;

MICROCALORIMETERS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037619209     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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