Development of a hard x-ray polycapillary telescope

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Oct 1996

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Proc. SPIE Vol. 2808, p. 571-582, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, Oswald H. Siegmund; Mark A. Gummi

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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A development plan for an x-ray telescope based on polycapillary fiber optic technology is presented. The payload may be flown on either a sounding rocket for initial tests or on a balloon platform. For the latter, Fourier aperture synthesis imaging provides arcminute resolution over a fifteen arcminute field. The field-of-view is controllable to permit sensitive follow-up observations of localized sources. In this non-imaging mode, the telescope features high resolution spectrometry over an instrument bandpass from 3 to greater than or equal to 60 keV at a background level less than or equal to 5 milliCrab. Its continuum sensitivity for a 10(superscript 5) second observation with 1 keV binning is better than or comparable to HEXTE below 60 keV.

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