Soft electron background in x-ray telescopes using grazing incidence optics in near-Earth orbits
Abstract
Modeling of the low-energy-electron background in the UK X-ray telescope on Rosat is carried out. The results of the Rosat telescope modeling are then applied to several other missions using grazing-incidence optics. Estimates of electron throughput for various near-earth missions using grazing-incidence optics (including the Einstein, AXAF, Extreme UV Explorer, and SAX missions) are presented.
- Publication:
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X-Ray/EUV Optics for Astronomy and Microscopy
- Pub Date:
- July 1989
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1989SPIE.1160..362S
- Keywords:
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- Background Radiation;
- Earth Orbital Environments;
- Grazing Incidence;
- X Ray Telescopes;
- Electron Counters;
- Optical Filters;
- Panoramic Cameras;
- Rosat Mission;
- Space Missions;
- Optics