High-resolution x-ray telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7803, Issue , 2010, Pages

  O'Dell, Stephen L ^a   Brissenden, Roger J ^b   Davis, William N ^b   Elsner, Ronald F ^a   Elvis, Martin S ^b   Freeman, Mark D ^b   Gaetz, Terrance ^b   Gorenstein, Paul ^b   Gubarev, Mikhail V ^a   Jerius, Diab ^b   Juda, Michael ^b   Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J ^a   Murray, Stephen S ^b,c   Petre, Robert ^d   Podgorski, William ^b   Ramsey, Brian D ^a   Reid, Paul B ^b   Saha, Timo ^d   Schwartz, Daniel A ^b   Trolier McKinstry, Susan ^e   Weisskopf, Martin C ^a   Wilke, Rudeger H T ^e   Wolk, Scott ^b   Zhang, William W ^d   more..

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adjustable optics; x ray astronomy; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE OPTICS; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; BLACK HOLES; CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES; DARK ENERGY; DARK MATTER; EFFECTIVE AREA; GALAXY CLUSTERS; GRAZING INCIDENCE; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOLATED NEUTRON STARS; LIGHTWEIGHT MIRRORS; ON-ORBIT; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES; SCIENTIFIC RESULTS; SPACE-BORNE; SUPERNOVA REMNANTS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; THERMAL PLASMA; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY ASTRONOMY; X-RAY OBSERVATORY;

ASTROPHYSICS; GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; STARS; WIND POWER;

X RAYS;

EID: 78549259679     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.862315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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