HERO: Program status and first images from a balloon-borne focusing hard-x-ray telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4496, Issue , 2002, Pages 140-145

  Ramsey, B D ^a   Alexander, C D ^a   Apple, J A ^a   Benson, C M ^a   Dietz, K L ^a   Elsner, R F ^a   Engelhaupt, D E ^a   Ghosh, K K ^a   Kolodziejczak, J J ^a   O'Dell, S L ^a   Speegle, C O ^a   Swartz, D A ^a   Weisskopf, M C ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroformed nickel replication; Hard x ray; Optics

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BALLOONS; ELECTROFORMING; FOCUSING; MIRRORS; NICKEL; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; X RAY OPTICS;

BALLOON-BORNE FOCUSING HARD X-RAY TELESCOPE; ELECTROFORMED NICKEL REPLICATION; HARD X RAY; HIGH ENERGY REPLICATED OPTICS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 18644363810     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454369     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

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2. Dietz K.L. et al., in preparation, 2001.
3. B.D. Ramsey, Alexander, C.D., Apple, J.A., Benson, C.M., Dietz, K.L., Elsner, R.F., Engelhaupt, D.E., Kolodziejczak, J.J., O'Dell, S.L., Speegle, C.O., Swartz, D.A. and Wiesskopf, M.C., "HERO: High Energy Replicated Optics for a Hard-X-Ray Balloon Payload," SPIE 4138, 147-153, 2000.