High-Energy Replicated Optics
Telescope style | balloon-borne telescope X-ray telescope |
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Focal length | 6 m (19 ft 8 in) |
Website | wwwastro |
High-Energy Replicated Optics (HERO) is a high-altitude balloon-borne x-ray telescope based at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Its mirrors are conical approximations to Wolter type 1 geometry.[1] The proving flight, at least, used a high-pressure gas scintillation proportional counter with relatively low spatial resolution.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ B.D. Ramsey et al., HERO : High-Energy Replicated Optics for a Hard-X-Ray Balloon Payload, Proc. SPIE 4138, X-Ray Optics, Instruments, and Missions IV (2000)
External links[]
- High energy replicated optics to explore the sun: Hard x-ray balloon-borne telescope (2013)
Categories:
- X-ray telescopes
- Balloon-borne telescopes
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Astronomy stubs
- Aviation stubs