The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR): Optics overview and current status

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hailey, Charles J ^a   An, Hongjun ^a   Blaedel, Kenneth L ^a   Brejnholt, Nicolai F ^b   Christensen, Finn E ^b   Craig, William W ^c   Decker, Todd A ^a   Doll, Melanie ^a   Gum, Jeff ^d   Koglin, Jason E ^a   Jensen, Carsten P ^b   Hale, Layton ^a   Moria, Kaya ^a   Pivovaroff, Michael J ^c   Sharpe, Marton ^d   Stern, Marcela ^a   Tajiri, Gordon ^a   Zhang, William W ^d  

^a Columbia University Astrophysics Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hard X ray telescope; NuSTAR; Thermally slumped glass; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

CDZNTE SPECTROMETER; CURRENT STATUS; ENERGY BAND; FOCAL LENGTHS; HARD X-RAY TELESCOPE; HARD-X-RAY FOCUSING; LARGE EFFECTIVE AREAS; NUSTAR; SMALL EXPLORER MISSIONS; TELESCOPE ARRAYS; THERMALLY-SLUMPED GLASS;

BAND STRUCTURE; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; GLASS; GRAPHITE EPOXY COMPOSITES; INSTRUMENTS; NASA; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; SPECTROMETERS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TITANIUM; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957878474     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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