Design and fabrication of refractive nulls for testing the segmented mirrors of the Constellation-X spectroscopy x-ray telescope (SXT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5900, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-7

  Lehan, J P ^b   Hadjimichael, T ^c   Content, D A ^a   Zhang, W W ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Constellation X; Lens design; OAP; Optical testing; X ray telescope

Indexed keywords

CONSTELLATION X; LENS DESIGN; OAP; X-RAY TELESCOPES;

MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TESTING; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

LENSES;

EID: 29844456023     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.615316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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