The swift X-ray telescope (XRT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1320-1325

  Burrows, D N ^a   Hill, J E ^a   Nousek, J A ^a   Wells, A A ^b   Short, A D ^b   Ambrosi, R M ^b   Chincarini, G ^c   Citterio, O ^c   Tagliaferri, G ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; MIRRORS; X RAYS;

X-RAY TELESCOPES (XRT);

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038294504     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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