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P. Reid is an academic researcher from Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Telescope & X-ray telescope. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 24 publications. Previous affiliations of P. Reid include Smithsonian Institution & Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Arcus: the x-ray grating spectrometer explorer
Randall K. Smith,Margaret H. Abraham,Ryan Allured,Marshall W. Bautz,Jay A. Bookbinder,Joel N. Bregman,Laura Brenneman,Nancy S. Brickhouse,David N. Burrows,Vadim Burwitz,R. Carvalho,Peter Cheimets,Elisa Costantini,S. Dawson,Casey T. DeRoo,A. D. Falcone,Adam R. Foster,Catherine E. Grant,Ralf K. Heilmann,Edward Hertz,Butler Hine,David P. Huenemoerder,Jelle Kaastra,K. K. Madsen,Randall L. McEntaffer,Eric D. Miller,Jon M. Miller,E. Morse,Richard F. Mushotzky,Kirpal Nandra,Michael A. Nowak,F. B. S. Paerels,Robert Petre,L. Plice,Katja Poppenhaeger,Andrew Ptak,P. Reid,Jeremy S. Sanders,Mark L. Schattenburg,Norbert S. Schulz,Alan P. Smale,Pasquale Temi,Lynne A. Valencic,S. Walker,Richard Willingale,Jörn Wilms,Scott J. Wolk +46 more
TL;DR: Arcus as discussed by the authors is a free-flying satellite mission that will enable high-resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy (8-50) with unprecedented sensitivity, effective areas of >500 sq cm and spectral resolution >2500.
Mirror technology development for the International X-ray Observatory mission
W. W. Zhang,Martina Atanassova,Michael P. Biskach,Peter Blake,Glenn Byron,Kai-Wing Chan,Kai-Wing Chan,Tyler Evans,Charles M. Fleetwood,Michael D. Hill,M. Hong,Lalit Jalota,Lalit Jalota,Linette D. Kolos,J. M. Mazzarella,Ryan S. McClelland,L. Olsen,Robert Petre,David W. Robinson,Timo T. Saha,Marton V. Sharpe,Mikhail Gubarev,William D. Jones,Thomas Kester,Steve O'Dell,David Caldwell,William N. Davis,Mark D. Freeman,William A. Podgorski,P. Reid,Suzanne Romaine +30 more
TL;DR: The International X-ray Observatory (IXO) as mentioned in this paper is designed to conduct spectroscopic, imaging, and timing studies of astrophysical phenomena that take place as near as in the solar system and as far as in early universe.
Lightweight X-ray Mirrors for the Constellation-X Mission
W. W. Zhang,John P. Lehan,Robert Petre,Timo T. Saha,Mikhail V. Gubarev,William D. Jones,Stephen L. O'Dell,P. Reid +7 more
- 01 Dec 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present measured quantities of formed mirror segments and compare them with requirements to show that the formed mirror segment have met all except the sag requirement, which may be an artifact of the measurement process.
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The Constellation-X Observatory
Jay A. Bookbinder,Randall K. Smith,Randall K. Smith,Anne Hornschemeier,Michael R. Garcia,Nicholas E. White,Harvey Tananbaum,Robert Petre,Suzanne Romaine,P. Reid +9 more
TL;DR: The Constellation-X Observatory as mentioned in this paper is currently planned as NASA's next major X-ray observatory to be launched towards the end of the next decade, with the driving science goals for the mission are to: 1) Trace the evolution of Black Holes with cosmic time and determine their contribution to the energy output of the Universe; 2) Observe matter spiraling into Black Hole to test the predictions of General Relativity; 3) Use galaxy clusters to trace the locations of Dark Matter and follow the formation of structure as a function of distance; 4) Search for
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Constellation-X Mirror Technology Development
W. W. Zhang,J. Bolognese,Kai-Wing Chan,Kai-Wing Chan,Theodore Hadjimichael,Charles C. He,M. Hong,John P. Lehan,John P. Lehan,J. M. Mazzarella,D. T. Nguyen,L. Olsen,Scott M. Owens,Robert Petre,Timo T. Saha,Marton V. Sharpe,James Sturm,Thomas Wallace,Mikhail V. Gubarev,William D. Jones,Steve O'Dell,William N. Davis,Mark D. Freeman,William A. Podgorski,P. Reid +24 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the efforts and developments in these areas, including fabrication of lightweight mirror segments by slumping commercially available thin glass sheets, mounting and attachment of these mirror segments for the purpose of X-ray tests, and development of methods for aligning and integrating the mirror segments into mirror assemblies.
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