The Wolter telescope designer (WTD): a user-friendly web facility for the design of x-ray multishell telescopes

V. Cotroneo; D. Di Pasquale; Paul B. Reid

doi:10.1117/12.926838

10 October 2012 The Wolter telescope designer (WTD): a user-friendly web facility for the design of x-ray multishell telescopes

V. Cotroneo, D. Di Pasquale, Paul B. Reid

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Proceedings Volume 8443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 844344 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926838
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The design of a Wolter X-ray telescope takes into account the geometrical dimensioning of the shells and the choice of the coating for each of them. In this work we present a user-friendly web interface aimed to the design of multishell Wolter telescopes and to the calculation of their effective area. The application is available at http://hea-www.cfa.harvard.edu/WTD/. An example is presented.

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V. Cotroneo, D. Di Pasquale, and Paul B. Reid "The Wolter telescope designer (WTD): a user-friendly web facility for the design of x-ray multishell telescopes", Proc. SPIE 8443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 844344 (10 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926838

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