Non-solar astronomy with the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1163-1172

  Smith, David M ^a   Lin, Robert P ^a,b   Hurley, Kevin ^a   Coburn, Wayne ^a   Hurford, Gordon ^a   Wigger, Claudia ^c   Hajdas, Wojtek ^c   Zehnder, Alex ^c   McConnell, Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Astrophysics; Detectors; Gamma rays; Germanium; X rays

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SOLAR RADIATION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING INSTRUMENTS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0038294575     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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