Ground-based X-ray calibration of the telescopes onboard Astro-E2 satellite

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5168, Issue , 2004, Pages 294-305

  Misaki, Kazutami ^a   Kunieda, Hideyo ^a   Maeda, Yoshitomo ^a   Haba, Yoshito ^a   Itoh, Kei ^a   Mori, Hideyuki ^a   Iizuka, Ryo ^a   Itoh, Akiharu ^a   Inoue, Hirohiko ^a   Okada, Shunsaku ^a   Yokoyama, Yuushi ^a   Ogasaka, Yasushi ^b   Tamura, Keisuke ^b   Furuzawa, Akihiro ^b   Shibata, Ryo ^b   Tanaka, Takeshi ^b   Naitou, Masataka ^b   Ishida, Manabu ^c   Hayakawa, Akira ^c   Inoue, Chiaki ^c   Hayashi, Atsushi ^c   Shimizu, Tomohiro ^c   Serlemitsos, Peter J ^d   Soong, Yang ^d   Chan, Kai Wing ^d   Okajima, Takashi ^d   Lehan, John P ^d   more..

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Astro E2; Grazing incidence optics; Thin foil mirrors; X ray optics; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SATELLITES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

ASTRO-E2; GRAZING INCIDENCE OPTICS; THIN FOIL MIRRORS; X RAY TELESCOPES;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 11144355080     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.505773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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