Development of the hard X-ray telescope for balloon borne experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5168, Issue , 2004, Pages 120-128

  Tamura, Keisuke ^a   Ogasaka, Yasushi ^a   Shibata, Ryo ^a   Furuzawa, Akihiro ^a   Futamura, Taku ^a   Takahashi, Rika ^a   Tawara, Yuzuru ^a   Yamashita, Koujun ^a   Kunieda, Hideyo ^b   Tuller, Jack ^c   Serlemitsos, Peter J ^c   Okajima, Takashi ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Balloon; Hard X ray; Multilayer; Supermirror; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; BALLOONS; BAND STRUCTURE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

HARD X-RAY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPERMIRRORS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 11144354406     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.505655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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