Critical-angle x-ray transmission grating spectrometer with extended bandpass and resolving power > 10,000

Ralf K. Heilmann, Alexander R. Bruccoleri, Jeffery Kolodziejczak +4

Several high priority subjects in astrophysics can be addressed by a state-of-the-art soft x-ray grating spectrometer (XGS). An Explorer-scale, large-area (> 1,000 cm2), high resol…