Equal-curvature x-ray telescope designs for Constellation-X mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5168, Issue , 2004, Pages 346-351

  Saha, Timo T ^a   Content, David A ^a   Zhang, William W ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Constellation X; X Ray Optics; X Ray Telescopes

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; POLYNOMIALS; RAY TRACING; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE TELESCOPES; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CONSTELLATION X; SURFACE METROLOGY; X RAY TELESCOPES;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 1842790033     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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