Record Details
| HERO: Program Status and Fist Images from a Balloon-Borne Focusing Hard-X-ray Telescope | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Abstract: | HERO is a balloon payload featuring shallow-graze angle replicated optics for hard-x-ray imaging. When completed, the instrument will offer unprecedented sensitivity in the hard-x-ray region, giving thousands of sources to choose from for detailed study on long flights. A recent proof-of-concept flight captured the first hard-x-ray focused images of the Crab Nebula, Cygnus X-1 and GRS 1915+105. Full details of the HERO program are presented, including the design and performance of the optics, the detectors and the gondola. Results from the recent proving flight are discussed together with expected future performance when the full science payload is completed. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Date: | Jan 01, 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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20020022510
(Acquired Mar 01, 2002)
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| Subject Category: | ASTRONOMY | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Document Type: | Preprint | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Meeting Information: | SPIE's 46th Annual Meeting; 29 Jul. - 3 Aug. 2001; San Diego, CA; United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Meeting Sponsor: | International Society for Optical Engineering; United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Financial Sponsor: | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Huntsville, AL United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Organization Source: | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Huntsville, AL United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | 1p; In English | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution Limits: | Unclassified; Publicly available; Unlimited | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rights: | No Copyright | ||||||||||||||||||||
| NASA Terms: | BALLOON-BORNE INSTRUMENTS; X RAY TELESCOPES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; X RAY OPTICS; CRAB NEBULA; ELECTROFORMING; NICKEL; X RAY BINARIES | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Availability Source: | Other Sources | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Availability Notes: | Abstract Only | ||||||||||||||||||||
