Progress on the Micro-X rocket payload

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7011, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Figueroa Feliciano, E ^a,b   Wikus, P ^b   Adams, J S ^c,d   Bandler, S R ^c,d   Bautz, M ^b   Boyce, K ^e   Brown, G ^f   Deiker, S ^g   Doriese, W B ^b   Flanagan, K ^c   Galeazzi, M ^h   Hilton, G C ^g   Hwang, U ^c   Irwin, K D ^b   Kallman, T ^a   Kelley, R L ^a   Kilbourne, C A ^b   Kissel, S ^b   Leman, S W ⁱ   Levine, A ⁱ   Lowenstein, M ^a,j   Martinez Galarce, D ^b   McCammon, D ^a   Mushotzky, R ^e   Petre, R ^e   Porter, F S ^b   Reintsema, C D ^b   Rutherford, J M ^c   Saab, T ^b   Serlemitsos, P ^g   Schulz, N ^h   Smith, R ^c   Ullom, J N ^f   more..

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC DEMAGNETIZATION REFRIGERATORS; DETAILED MODELING; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLY; HIGH RESOLUTION; IONIZATION STATE; LINE SHIFTS; MICRO-CALORIMETER ARRAY; MICROCALORIMETER; STABLE OPERATION; SUPERNOVA REMNANTS; TRANSITION-EDGE; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS; X-RAY SOURCES; XRAY IMAGING;

DEMAGNETIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMAS; REFRIGERATORS; SENSORS; SOUNDING ROCKETS; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; X RAY CAMERAS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 70249097754     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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