The Ferrara hard X-ray facility for testing/calibrating hard X-ray focusing telescopes

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 20, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 413-420

  Loffredo, Gianluca ^a   Frontera, Filippo ^c   Pellicciotta, Damiano ^a   Pisa, Alessandro ^a   Carassiti, Vito ^b   Chiozzi, Stefano ^b   Evangelisti, Federico ^b   Landi, Luca ^b   Melchiorri, Michele ^b   Squerzanti, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Diffractometer; Instrumentation; X ray

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751094037     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-006-9049-y     Document Type: Article

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