Off-plane gratings for Constellation-X

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 549-556

  McEntaffer, R ^a   Cash, W ^a   Shipley, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Constellation X; High spectral resolution; Off plane mount; Reflection Grating Spectrometer; X ray Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

REFLECTION GRATING SPETROMETER;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 0037619274     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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