NHXM: A New Hard X-ray imaging and polarimetric mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tagliaferri, Gianpiero ^a   Argan, Andrea ^b   Bellazzini, Ronaldo ^c   Bookbinder, Jay ^d   Catalano, Osvaldo ^b   Cavazzuti, Elisabetta ^e   Costa, Enrico ^f   Cusumano, Giancarlo ^b   Fiore, Fabrizio ^g   Fiorini, Carlo ^h   Giommi, Paolo ^e   Malaguti, Giuseppe ⁱ   Matt, Giorgio ^j   Mereghetti, Sandro ^k   Micela, Giuseppina ^b   Murray, Stephen ^d   Negri, Barbara ^e   Pareschi, Giovanni ^a   Perola, Giuseppe ^j   Romaine, Suzanne ^d   Villa, Gabriele ^k   more..

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

^f INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^g INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^h POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

ⁱ OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^j ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^k INAF IASF MILANO   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

NHXM; X ray astronomical instrumentation; X ray astronomical mission; X ray polarimetric astronomy; Xray astronomical optics

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL MISSION; NHXM; X-RAY ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION; X-RAY POLARIMETRIC ASTRONOMY; XRAY ASTRONOMICAL OPTICS;

ASTRONOMY; GRAVITATION; INSTRUMENTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARTICLE ACCELERATOR ACCESSORIES; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SPACE TELESCOPES; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957864694     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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