The proposed High Energy Telescope (HET) for EXIST

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Honga, J ^a   Grindlay, J ^a   Allen, B ^a   Skinner, G ^b   Barthelmy, S ^b   Gehrels, N ^b   Garson, A ^c   Krawczynski, H ^c   Cook, W ^d   Harrison, F ^d   Natalucci, L ^e   Ubertini, P ^e  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coded aperture imaging; Gamma ray burst; X ray survey

Indexed keywords

CODED-APERTURE; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CONTINUOUS SCANNING; CZT DETECTORS; DEEP UV; DESIGN CONCEPT; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; HARD X RAY; HARD X-RAY IMAGING; HARD X-RAY TELESCOPE; HIGH ENERGY TELESCOPES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LARGE ARRAYS; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; NONTHERMAL; RECENT PROGRESS; SOFT X-RAY; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; TIME-SCALES; WIDE-FIELD; X-RAY SOURCES; X-RAY SURVEYS; XRAY IMAGING;

DETECTORS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PIXELS; RADIO TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; STARS; SURVEYS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS; Z TRANSFORMS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957870386     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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