Imaging in High Energy Astronomy

by L. Bassani

Coding (and decoding) coded mask telescopes.- Imaging techniques applied to the coded mask SIGMA telescope.- Wide field monitoring of the X-ray sky using rotation modulation collimators.- Hard X-ray Imaging via focusing optics with mosaic crystals.- A hard X-ray telescope/concentrator design based on graded period multilayer coatings.- Review of crystal diffraction and its application to focusing energetic gamma rays.- Hard X-ray all-sky Imaging with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792337883
• ISBN13: 9780792337881
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"