The Constellation-X spectroscopy X-ray telescope: Recent technology development

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6266 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  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

ALIGNMENT PROCESSES; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; CONSTELLATION-X SPECTROSCOPY X-RAY TELESCOPE (SXT).; EPOXY REPLICATION;

GLASS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEASUREMENTS; MIRRORS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SPACE OPTICS; X RAY OPTICS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749015473     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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