The status of the Constellation-X mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6686, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Petre, Robert ^a   White, Nicholas E ^a   Tananbaum, Harvey ^b   Hornschemeier, Ann ^a   Bookbinder, Jay ^b   Garcia, Michael ^b   Grady, Jean ^a   Kilbourne, Caroline ^a  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black holes; Constellation X; Dark energy; X rays

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GRAVITATION; NASA; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; X RAY SPECTROGRAPHS;

BLACK HOLES; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; DARK ENERGY;

SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

EID: 42249096149     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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