Including detector effects in the design of grazing incidence X-ray telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5497, Issue , 2004, Pages 636-645

  Harvey, James E ^a   Atanassova, Martina ^a   Krywonos, Andrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detector Effects; Grazing Incidence X ray Telescopes; Wide field Imaging Systems

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGES; DETECTOR EFFECTS; GRAZING INCIDENCE X RAY TELESCOPES; WIDE-FIELD IMAGING SYSTEMS;

DETECTORS; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; X RAYS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 12344311350     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.590698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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