The Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating: Design, Fabrication, Ground Calibration and Five Years in Flight

Details of the design, fabrication, and ground and flight calibration of the High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) on the Chandra X‐Ray Observatory are presented after 5 years of flight experience. Specifics include the theory of phased transmission gratings as applied to the HETG, the Rowland des...

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Main Authors: Canizares, Claude R., Davis, John E., Dewey, Dan, Flanagan, Kathryn A., Galton, Eugene B., Huenemoerder, David P., Ishibashi, Kazunori, Markert, Thomas H., McGuirk, Michael, Schattenburg, Mark Lee, Schulz, Norbert S., Smith, Henry Ignatius, Wise, Michael, Marshall, Herman
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press, The 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71916
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8690-231X
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6932-2612
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5769-8441