Current status of the Astro-H x-ray telescope system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7437, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Awaki, Hisamitsu ^a   Ogasaka, Yasushi ^b   Kunieda, Hideyo ^b   Furuzawa, Akihiro ^b   Mori, Hideyuki ^b   Miyazawa, Takuya ^b   Haba, Yoshito ^b   Tawara, Yuzuru ^b   Yamashita, Koujyun ^b   Serlemitsos, Peter ^c   Soong, Yang ^c   Okajima, Takashi ^c   Ishida, Manabu ^d   Maeda, Yoshitomo ^d   Tamura, Keisuke ^d   Namba, Yoshiharu ^e   Uesugi, Kentaro ^f   Suzuki, Yoshio ^f   Ogi, Keiji ^a   Itoh, Masayuki ^g   Kosaka, Tatsuro ^h   Tsunemi, Hiroshi ⁱ   more..

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^e CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^g KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

ⁱ OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astro H; Multilayer; Thin foil mirror; X ray telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTRO-H; CURRENT STATUS; DEPTH-GRADED MULTILAYERS; DESIGN STUDIES; ENERGY REGIONS; FLIGHT DESIGN; GRAZING INCIDENCE; HARD X-RAY TELESCOPE; IMAGE BLUR; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; PRODUCTION FACILITY; REFLECTIVE OPTICS; SINGLE LAYER; SOFT X-RAY; SPRING-8; SUPERMIRRORS; THIN FOIL MIRROR; UNIQUE FEATURES; X-RAY MISSION; X-RAY TELESCOPE;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; REFLECTION; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 70449396919     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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