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Development of a Slitless Spectrograph for X-Ray Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

T. Zehnpfennig
T. Zehnpfennig*
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American Science and Engineering Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Abstract

The soft x - ray slitless spectrograph is described, and its usefulness in making rapid surveys of wide spectral regions is discussed Fabrication of the 1μ thick gold-shadowed transmission gratings used in the instrument is described. Spectra taken in the laboratory and during a solar sounding rocket flight are presented. Because a simple absorbing strip model is inadequate to explain the distribution of intensities among the spectral orders, a phase-grating model must be adopted.

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Research Article
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 13: Eighteenth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 6-8, 1969 , 1969 , pp. 342 - 351
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1969

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