Mounting and alignment of IXO mirror segments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chan, Kai Wing ^a,b   Zhang, William ^b   Evans, Tyler ^b,c   McClelland, Ryan ^b,c   Hong, Melinda ^b,c   Mazzarella, James ^b,c   Saha, Timo ^b   Jalota, Lalit ^a,b   Olsen, Lawrence ^b   Byron, Glenn ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SGT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

International X ray observatory; IXO telescope; Mirror mounting; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

IXO TELESCOPE; MIRROR MOUNTING; RECENT PROGRESS; X-RAY OBSERVATORY;

BUILDINGS; INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; MOUNTINGS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957871928     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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