Effects of contamination upon the performance of x-ray telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  O'Dell, Stephen L ^a   Elsner, Ronald F ^a   Oosterbroek, Tim ^b  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calibration; Molecular contamination; Particulate contamination; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

CONTROL REQUIREMENTS; EFFECTIVE AREA; MOLECULAR CONTAMINATION; ON-GROUND CALIBRATION; PARTICULATE CONTAMINATION; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION; SCIENCE REQUIREMENTS; SPACE OPERATIONS; TELESCOPE PERFORMANCE; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY OBSERVATORY;

CALIBRATION; CONTAMINATION; INSTRUMENTS; NASA; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957860155     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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