Modeling of the Lobster-ISS x-ray telescope in orbit

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 232-241

  Peele, Andrew G ^a   Lyngsjö, Håkan ^a   Crocker, Roland M ^a   Markham, John ^a   Bannister, Nigel ^b   Nugent, Keith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer Modeling; Lobster eye optics; Lobster ISS; Space Telescopes; X ray All Sky Monitors; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); MAPS; SPACE STATIONS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

LOBSTER-EYE OPTICS; LOBSTER-ISS; X-RAY ALL SKY MONITORS; X-RAY OPTICS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044230709     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550975     Document Type: Conference Paper

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