Calibration of the XRT-SOLARB flight filters at the XACT facility of INAF-OAPA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 423-439

  Barbera, M ^a   Artale, M A ^a   Candia, R ^a   Collura, A ^a,b   Lullo, G ^c   Peres, G ^a,c   Perinati, E ^a   Varisco, S ^a   Bookbinder, J A ^d   Cheimets, P N ^d   Cosmo, M L ^d   DeLuca, E E ^d   Golub, L ^d   Weber, M A ^d  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b INAF IASF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Filters; Instrumentation; X ray Astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT; SPECTROMETERS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ACTIVATED PLASMAS; FLIGHT FILTERS; X RAY ASTRONOMY CALIBRATION AND TESTING (XACT); X RAY TELESCOPES;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 10044246233     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.553127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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