Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The life cycle of an ESA science mission and how to get involved
- 2 Design issues for space science missions
- 3 Instrumentation in X-ray Astronomy
- 4 EUV and UV imaging and spectroscopy from space
- 5 The luminosity oscillations imager, a space instrument: from design to science
- 6 Hipparcos and Gaia: the development of space astrometry in Europe
- 7 Space Physics Instrumentation and Missions
- 8 Planetary observations and landers
3 - Instrumentation in X-ray Astronomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2009
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The life cycle of an ESA science mission and how to get involved
- 2 Design issues for space science missions
- 3 Instrumentation in X-ray Astronomy
- 4 EUV and UV imaging and spectroscopy from space
- 5 The luminosity oscillations imager, a space instrument: from design to science
- 6 Hipparcos and Gaia: the development of space astrometry in Europe
- 7 Space Physics Instrumentation and Missions
- 8 Planetary observations and landers
Summary
In this set of lectures I discuss instrumentation for astronomical X-ray observatories. In particular I first briefly outline the physical processes that are observed in cosmic X-ray sources, and then I discuss X-ray telescopes and X-ray detectors. An overview of the development of X-ray Astronomy, since its beginnings in the 1960s to today's missions, follows. The lectures end with a look into the future with special emphasis in the next decade or two.
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- Payload and Mission Definition in Space Sciences , pp. 89 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005