A sounding rocket payload for X-ray observations of the Cygnus Loop

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6266 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  McEntaffer, Randall L ^a   Cash, Webster ^a   Shipley, Ann ^a   Schindhelm, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cygnus Loop; Diffuse x ray spectroscopy; Off plane mount; Sounding rocket

Indexed keywords

CYGNUS LOOP; OFF PLANE MOUNT; SOUNDING ROCKET; WIRE GRID COLLIMATOR;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; THROUGHPUT; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY CAMERAS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 33749012564     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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