A mounting and alignment approach for Constellation-X mirror segments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7011, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Podgorski, William A ^a   Caldwell, David R ^a   Freeman, Mark D ^a   Davis, William N ^a   Reid, Paul B ^a   Rohrbach, Scott ^b   Zhang, William ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mirror support systems; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ERROR; ALIGNMENT SYSTEM; CENTRATION; CONE ANGLE; CONSTELLATION-X; ERROR BUDGETS; FOCAL LENGTHS; MIRROR SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MIRROR SUPPORTS; SECOND LEVEL; THIN MIRRORS; X RAY TELESCOPE;

ALIGNMENT; BUDGET CONTROL; DEFORMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ERRORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; X RAY CAMERAS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 70249146580     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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