Calibration of the AXAF observatory: overview
Abstract
The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) will soon begin its exploration of the x-ray universe, providing unprecedented angular and spectral resolution. Also unprecedented is the ambitious goal of calibrating the AXAF observatory to an accuracy of a few percent. Toward this end, AXAF science and engineering teams undertook an extensive calibration program at component, subsystem, and system levels. This paper is an overview of the system-level calibration activities, conducted over the past year at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) X-Ray Calibration Facility (XRCF).
- Publication:
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Grazing Incidence and Multilayer X-Ray Optical Systems
- Pub Date:
- July 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.278838
- Bibcode:
- 1997SPIE.3113....2W