The HEXIT (High Energy X-ray Imaging Telescope) balloon-born mission

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 530, 2003, Pages 179-184

  Pareschi, Giovanni ^a   Di Cocco, Guido ^b   Caroli, Ezio ^b   Citterio, Oberto ^a   Cotroneo, Vincenzo ^b   Del Sordo, Stefano ^b   Frontera, Filippo ^b,c   Gizzi, Leonida ^b   Malaguti, Giuseppe ^b   Silvestri, Stefano ^b   Spiga, Daniele ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CRYSTALS; ELECTROFORMING; MULTILAYERS; SOLID STATE DEVICES; TELESCOPES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MOSAIC CRYSTALS;

BALLOONS;

EID: 0242321998     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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