Design of the pre-collimator for the NeXT x-ray telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7011, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mori, Hideyuki ^a   Ogasaka, Yasushi ^b   Ishida, Manabu ^a   Maeda, Yoshitomo ^a   Tamura, Keisuke ^a   Kunieda, Hideyo ^b   Furuzawa, Akihiro ^b   Haba, Yoshito ^b   Miyazawa, Takuya ^b   Yamashita, Koujun ^b   Awaki, Hisamitsu ^c   Serlemitsos, Peter J ^d   Soong, Yang ^d   Chan, Kai Wing ^d   Okajima, Takashi ^d  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; REFLECTION; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; STRAY LIGHT; X RAYS;

DOUBLE REFLECTIONS; FIELD OF VIEWS; LARGE EFFECTIVE AREAS; NEW X-RAY TELESCOPES; OFF-AXIS ANGLES; SOURCE DETECTION; THIN SUBSTRATE; X RAY TELESCOPE;

X RAY DETECTORS;

EID: 70249151483     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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