Imaging characteristics of the development model of the JET-X X-ray telescope
Abstract
The Joint European X-ray Telescope, 'JET-X', which is to be the core instrument of the Russian Spectrum-X astrophysics mission in 1994, will study the 3-10 keV-band emission from X-ray sources. The instrument is configured as two identical coaligned X-ray imaging telescopes; focal plane imaging is furnished by a cooled CCD detector which yields both good spectral resolution and high spatial resolution. The mirror shells have Wolter I geometry, and are manufactured by means of an electroforming replication process.
- Publication:
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Multilayer and Grazing Incidence X-Ray/EUV Optics
- Pub Date:
- January 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.51231
- Bibcode:
- 1992SPIE.1546..150C
- Keywords:
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- Image Resolution;
- Mirrors;
- Spaceborne Telescopes;
- X Ray Imagery;
- X Ray Telescopes;
- High Resolution;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Spatial Resolution;
- X Ray Sources;
- Astronomy