Wolter telescope information

A Wolter telescope is a telescope for X-rays that only uses grazing incidence optics – mirrors that reflect X-rays at very shallow angles. Conventional...

Hans Wolter outlined 3 ways a telescope could be built using only this kind of mirror. Examples of space observatories using this type of telescope are...

astronomy) X-ray telescope (see also X-ray astronomy) Wolter telescope Fast Fourier Transform Telescope Optical and other types of telescopes are mounted on...

Indonesia Wolter telescope, a telescope for X-rays named after Hans Wolter Walter (name) Wollter Wolters This page lists people with the surname Wolter. If...

Spectroscopic Telescope Array, also named Explorer 93 and SMEX-11) is a NASA space-based X-ray telescope that uses a conical approximation to a Wolter telescope to...

1962) and the Crab Nebula (October 1962). Since then, X-ray telescopes (Wolter telescopes) have been built using nested grazing-incidence mirrors which...

three simplest designs are outlined and are known as Wolter telescopes of types I, II and III. Wolter, H. (1952). "Glancing Incidence Mirror Systems as Imaging...

wavelengths have been reflected either using grazing incidence (as in a Wolter telescope for imaging X-rays) or a diffraction grating (as in the jocularly-termed...

The Einstein Probe (EP) is an X-ray space telescope mission by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in partnership with European Space Agency (ESA) and the...

Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) launches. The satellite is a space-based X-ray telescope that will use a Wolter telescope to focus high energy...

depending on the brightness of the afterglow. The XRT uses a Wolter Type I X-ray telescope with 12 nested mirrors, focused onto a single MOS charge-coupled...

criticized by experts for its potential to damage the telescope. The telescope consists of seven identical Wolter-type mirror modules with 54 nested gold-coated...

involved with the EUV telescope on the Apollo element of the Apollo–Soyuz mission. The full-sky survey was accomplished by three Wolter-Schwarzschild grazing-incidence...

The X-ray mirror assembly was a grazing incidence four-fold nested Wolter I telescope with an 84-cm diameter aperture and 240-cm focal length. The angular...

identical Wolter-I telescope modules, as well as Silicon and Cadmium Telluride strip detectors originally developed for the HXT telescope on the Japanese...

chip located at the focal plane of the X-ray telescope. The X-ray telescope is based on the popular Wolter-I mirror optics concept. This technique is widely...