NuSTAR Hard X-ray Optics Design and Performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7437, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Koglin, Jason E ^a   An, HongJun ^a   Blaedel, Kenneth L ^a   Brejnholt, Nicolai F ^b   Christensen, Finn E ^b   Craig, William W ^c   Decker, Todd A ^a   Hailey, Charles J ^a   Hale, Layton C ^a   Harrison, Fiona A ^d   Jensen, Carsten P ^b   Madsen, Kristin K ^b   Mori, Kaya ^a   Pivovaroff, Michael J ^c   Tajiri, Gordon ^a   Zhang, William W ^e  

^a Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hard X ray telescope; Nustar; Segmented glass; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; FOCUSING OPTICS; HARD X RAY; HARD X-RAY OPTICS; HARD X-RAY TELESCOPE; HEAVY ELEMENTS; MULTI-LAYER-COATING; NASA SATELLITE; NUSTAR; OPTICS DESIGN; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PRODUCTION PROCESS; SEGMENTED GLASS; TELESCOPE ARRAYS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; GLASS; ION BEAMS; NASA; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; STARS; ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 70449435298     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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