Off-plane grating mount tolerances for Constellation-x

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 335-340

  Cash, Webster ^a   Shipley, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Holographic grating; Off plane mount; X ray spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CALORIMETERS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HOLOGRAPHY; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

OFF-PLANE MOUNT; REFLECTION GRATING SPECTROMETERS (RGS); TELESCOPE RESOLUTION; X-RAY TELESCOPES;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 10044272271     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.549476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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