Feasibility study of a Laue lens for hard X-rays for space astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5536, Issue , 2004, Pages 39-48

  Pisa, Alessandro ^a   Frontera, Filippo ^a,b   De Chiara, Paola ^a   Loffredo, Gianluca ^a   Pellicciotta, Damiano ^a   Landini, Gianni ^b   Franceschini, Turi ^b   Silvestri, Stefano ^b   Andersen, Ken ^c   Courtois, Pierre ^c   Hamelin, Bernard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

Crystal diffraction; Hard X ray astronomy; Hard X ray optics

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; LENSES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICS; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

CRYSTAL DIFFRACTION; HARD X-RAY OPTICS; THERMAL EMISSIONS; X-RAY ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 20144361966     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.563052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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