X-ray telescope eROSITA (IMAGE)

SPIE--International Society for Optics and Photonics

X-ray telescope eROSITA

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A team of scientists from the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Germany, built an x-ray telescope called eROSITA consisting of an array of co-aligned focal plane cameras with one in the center and six surrounding it.

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P. Friedrich, doi 10.1117/1.JATIS.7.2.025004.

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