X-ray instrumentation in astronomy II; Proceedings of the Meeting, San Diego, CA, Aug. 15-17, 1988

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Jan 1988

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Meeting sponsored by SPIE. Bellingham, WA, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE Proceedings. Volume 982), 19

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Conferences, Imaging Techniques, X Ray Astronomy, X Ray Spectroscopy, X Ray Telescopes, Calibrating, Gratings (Spectra), Grazing Incidence Telescopes, Imaging Spectrometers, Microchannel Plates, Proportional Counters, Rosat Mission, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Solar Instruments, Spaceborne Astronomy, Stellar Spectra, Ultraviolet Astronomy, X Ray Astrophysics Facility, X Ray Sources

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Various papers on X-ray instrumentation in astronomy are presented. Individual topics addressed include: concentrating hard X-ray collector, advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility high resolution camera, Fano-noise-limited CCDs, linear CCD with enhanced X-ray quantum efficiency, advances in microchannel plate detectors, X-ray imaging spectroscopy with EEV CCDs, large aperture imaging gas scintillation proportional counter, all-sky monitor for the X-ray Timing Explorer, and miniature satellite technology capabilities for space astronomy. Also discussed are: high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy using microcalorimeters, high-throughput X-ray astrophysics cornerstone, gas mixtures for X-ray proportional counters, transmission grating spectrometer for SPEKTROSAT, efficiency of X-ray reflection gratings, soft X-ray spectrographs for solar observations, observability of coronal variations, Berkeley extreme-UV calibration facility, SURF-II radiometric instrumentation calibration facility, and evaluation of toroidal gratings in the EUV.

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