Wide field x-ray telescope a moderate class mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Murray, Stephen S ^a,b   Giacconi, R ^b   Ptak, A ^b   Rosati, P ^c   Weisskopf, M ^d   Borgani, S ^e   Jones, C ^a   Parseschi, G ^f   Tozzi, P ^g   Gilli, R ^g   Campana, S ^f   Paolillo, M ^h   Tagliaferri, G ^f   Bautz, M ⁱ   Vikhlinin, A ^a   Hickox, R ^a,j   Forman, W ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c European Southern Observatory   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^f INAF Brera   (Italy)

^g INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

ⁱ MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-SKY SURVEY; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; CHANDRA; DATA SETS; EFFECTIVE AREA; EXTENDED OBJECTS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FULL-FIELD; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; INTRA-CLUSTER; LOW BACKGROUND; OFF-AXIS ANGLES; SMALL AREA; STAR FORMATION REGIONS; WIDE AREA; WIDE FIELD; X RAY DATA; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY SURVEYS; XMM-NEWTON;

GALAXIES; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; SURVEYS; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957860945     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856921     Document Type: Conference Paper

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