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Rocket Prototype of An X-Ray Optical System for Surveying and Locating Cosmic X-Ray Sources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
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The characteristics of an X-ray detection system based on an array of parabolic reflectors that provide a line-shaped focus will be described. The most recent rocket instrument has an overall length of about two meters and utilizes a pair of thin-window gas-flow proportional counters for detecting the X-rays. The variation of effective aperture with X-ray energy, the amount of scattering from the mirror surfaces, and the quality of the optical focus will be discussed. Estimates of the sensitivity of a larger set of X-ray optics used as a survey system, and when combined with a special grating to form a spectrograph, will be presented.
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- Part II: X-ray Astonomy
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- Copyright © Reidel 1971