The development of hard X-ray telescope optics and a theoretical model of X-ray emission from accretion disks
Abstract
I describe the development of a hard X-ray telescope optics technology, from design to X-ray testing, for use in the 5-170 keV energy band. In addition, a global model of a photoionized accretion disk shows that the observed 0.3-6 keV spectra of several low-mass X- ray binaries have atomic line emission originating at an extended disk atmosphere and corona.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 2001
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhDT........19J
- Keywords:
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- Physics: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics: Optics