The Palermo XACT facility: A new 35 m long soft X-ray beam-line for development and calibration of next generation X-ray observatories

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6266 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Barbera, Marco ^a,b   Candia, Roberto ^b   Collura, Alfonso ^b   DiCicca, Gaspare ^b   Pelliciari, Carlo ^b   Sciortino, Salvatore ^b   Varisco, Salvatore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration facility; Instrumentation for Astronomy; X rays

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; OPTICAL TESTING; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

THE INSTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA (INAF); THE X-RAY ASTRONOMY CALIBRATION AND TESTING (XACT) FACILITY; VACUUM BEAM-LINE;

X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749029271     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.673004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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