X-ray testing Constellation-X optics at MSFC's 100-m facility

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5168, Issue , 2004, Pages 306-317

  O'Dell, Stephen L ^a   Baker, Markus A ^a   Carter, James M ^a   Content, David A ^b   Davis, William N ^c   Freeman, Mark D ^c   Glenn, Paul E ^d   Gubarev, Mikhail ^e   Hair, Jason H ^b   Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J ^a   Jones, William D ^a   Joy, Marshall K ^a   McCracken, Jeff E ^a   Nanan, Giriraj ^f   Owens, Scott M ^b   Petre, Robert ^b   Podgorski, William A ^c   Ramsey, Brian D ^a   Saha, Timo T ^b   Stewart, Jeffrey W ^b   Swartz, Doug A ^e   Zhang, William W ^b   Zirnstein, Galen ^e   more..

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d Bauer Associates Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^f NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Optics testing; X ray astronomy; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); OBSERVATORIES; SPACE RESEARCH; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

COSMOLOGY; OPTICS TESTING; X RAY ASTRONOMY; X RAY TELESCOPES;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 11144358464     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.509584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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