The X-ray mirrors for the Astro-E2 mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 451-458

  Chan, Kai Wing ^a,b   Soong, Yang ^a   Serlemitsos, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Astro E2; Thin Foil Mirrors; X Ray Optics; X Ray Telescopes

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; PHOTONS; TELESCOPES; X RAY APPARATUS;

THIN-FOIL MIRRORS;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0038701788     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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