Error budgets for the image degradation of X-ray telescope on board Astro-E

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 459-470

  Misaki, Kazutami ^a   Shibata, Ryo ^b   Hidaka, Yasuhiro ^a   Kunieda, Hideyo ^a   Ishida, Manabu ^c   Honda, Hirohiko ^a   Maeda, Yoshitomo ^a   Endo, Takao ^a   Imamura, Kohsuke ^a   Haba, Yoshito ^a   Itoh, Kei ^a   Mori, Hideyuki ^a   Iizuka, Ryo ^a   Hayakawa, Akira ^c   Morihisa, Taijiro ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astro E; Astro E2; Ray tracing; Surface waviness; X ray telescope

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; RAY TRACING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; X RAY APPARATUS;

SHADOWING EFFECT;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038294749     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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