Development of the collimator response of gas slit camera of MAXI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6266 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Morii, Mikio ^a   Matsuoka, Masaru ^a   Ueno, Shiro ^a   Tomida, Hiroshi ^a   Katayama, Haruyoshi ^a   Kawasaki, Kazuyoshi ^a   Yokota, Takao ^a   Kuramata, Naoyuki ^a   Mihara, Tatehiro ^b   Kohama, Mitsuhiro ^b   Isobe, Naoki ^b   Nakajima, Motoki ^b   Tsunemi, Hiroshi ^c   Miyata, Emi ^c   Yoshida, Atsumasa ^d   Yamaoka, Kazutaka ^d   Tsuchiya, Yuichiro ^d   Miyakawa, Takehiro ^d   Kawai, Nobuyuki ^e   Kataoka, Jun ^e   Tanaka, Satoshi ^e   Negoro, Hitoshi ^f   more..

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

All sky monitor; Collimator; MAXI; X ray

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; LAUNCHING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SPACE SHUTTLES; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY CAMERAS;

GAS SLIT CAMERA (GSC); INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS); SKY SCANNER;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33749004005     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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