Monitoring the stability of thin and medium back-up filters of the Newton-XMM EPIC camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 264-269

  Barbera, M ^a   Collura, A ^a   Artale, M A ^a   Varisco, S ^a   Peres, G ^a   Sciortino, S ^a   Serio, S ^a   Villa, G ^b  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Astronomy; Filters; Instrumentation; X ray

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ASTROPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAY APPARATUS;

INSTRUMENTATION;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0037958335     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461592     Document Type: Conference Paper

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