A wide-field soft X-ray camera
Abstract
A wide-field soft X-ray camera (WFSXC) sensitive in the 50 to 250 eV band is described. The camera features Wolter-Schwarzschild optics with an 8 degree field of view and 300 cu cu collecting area. The focal plane instrument is a microchannel plate detector. Broad-band energy discrimination is provided by thin-film filters mounted immediately in front of the focal plane. The WFSXC is capable of detecting sources with intensities greater than 5 percent of HZ 43 during typical sounding rocket exposures, and it would approach the same sensitivity range as EUVE during a typical exposure from the Shuttle.
- Publication:
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X-ray Astronomy in the 1980's
- Pub Date:
- November 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981xras.nasa..319P
- Keywords:
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- Cameras;
- X Ray Astronomy;
- X Ray Telescopes;
- Focal Plane Devices;
- Microchannel Plates;
- Sounding Rockets;
- Space Shuttles;
- Instrumentation and Photography