Recent Progress on the Constellation-X Spectroscopy X-Ray Telescope (SXT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5168, Issue , 2004, Pages 196-206

  Petre, Robert ^a   Content, David ^a   O'Dell, Stephen ^b   Owens, Scott ^a   Podgorsky, William ^c   Stewart, Jeff ^a   Saha, Timo ^a   Zhang, William ^a  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constellation X; X ray mirrors

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GLASS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REFLECTION; SILICON; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

CENTROID DETECTOR ASSEMBLY (CDA); CONSTELLATION-X; X-RAY MIRRORS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 1842790100     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506784     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

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