NeXT hard x-ray telescope

Yasushi Ogasaka; Keisuke Tamura; Ryo Shibata; Akihiro Furuzawa; Takashi Okajima; Koujun Yamashita; Yuzuru Tawara; Hideyo Kunieda

doi:10.1117/12.552364

11 October 2004 NeXT hard x-ray telescope

Yasushi Ogasaka, Keisuke Tamura, Ryo Shibata, Akihiro Furuzawa, Takashi Okajima, Koujun Yamashita, Yuzuru Tawara, Hideyo Kunieda

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Proceedings Volume 5488, UV and Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Systems; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552364
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

NeXT is Japan's 6th X-ray astronomical observatory following to ASTRO-E2. The launch is currently scheduled in 2010. One of the main goal of NeXT is to explore the hard X-ray Universe with newly developed hard X-ray telescope. The hard X-ray telescope utilizes multilayer-supermirror and high-throughput thin-foil optics technology. Performance of the hard X-ray telescope has been demonstrated through InFOCuS balloon experiment. This paper describes principle, design, and technology background of the Hard X-ray Telescope on board NeXT.

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Yasushi Ogasaka, Keisuke Tamura, Ryo Shibata, Akihiro Furuzawa, Takashi Okajima, Koujun Yamashita, Yuzuru Tawara, and Hideyo Kunieda "NeXT hard x-ray telescope", Proc. SPIE 5488, UV and Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Systems, (11 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552364

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