X-ray telescope onboard Astro-E. III. guidelines to performance improvements and optimization of the ray-tracing simulator

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 916-940

  Misaki, Kazutami ^a,b   Hidaka, Yasuhiro ^a,e   Ishida, Manabu ^a,d   Shibata, Ryo ^a,c   Furuzawa, Akihiro ^c   Haba, Yoshito ^a   Itoh, Kei ^a   Mori, Hideyuki ^a   Kunieda, Hideyo ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NIKON CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION; PROFILOMETRY; RAY TRACING; SATELLITE SIMULATORS; SPECTROMETERS; X RAY OPTICS;

OFF-AXIS ANGLES; RAY-TRACING SIMULATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; X-RAY TELESCOPES (XRT);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 14844317659     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000916     Document Type: Article

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