Technology development for the constellation-X spectroscopy X-ray telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5900, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-8

  Petre, Robert ^a   Lehan, John ^a,b   O'Dell, Stephen ^a   Owens, Scott ^c   Reid, Paul B ^d   Saha, Timo ^c   Stewart, Jeff ^a   Jones, William D ^a   Zhang, William ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constellation x; X ray mirrors

Indexed keywords

CONSTELLATION-X; X-RAY MIRRORS;

COSMIC RAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 29844457613     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.615172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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