Carsten P. Jensen

TL;DR: The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is a NASA Small Explorer mission scheduled for launch in February 2012 as discussed by the authors, which will deploy two imaging CdZnTe spectrometers in the 6-79 keV energy band.

TL;DR: NuSTAR as mentioned in this paper is the first satellite mission to employ focusing optics in the hard X-ray band (8-80 keV), which eliminates high detector backgrounds, allows true imaging, and permits the use of compact high performance detectors.

TL;DR: NuSTAR as mentioned in this paper is a NASA satellite mission scheduled for launch in 2011 using focusing optics with multilayer coating for enhanced reflectivity of hard X-rays (6-79 keV), which will provide a combination of clarity, sensitivity and spectral resolution surpassing the largest observatories in this band by orders of magnitude.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a Figure of Merit procedure developed for gazing incidence optics, which averaged the effective area over the energy range, and combined an energy weighting function with an angular weighting functions to control the shape of the desired effective area.

TL;DR: In this article, an error-compensating, monolithic assembly and alignment (EMAAL) procedure is used to constrain the mirror segments to successive layers of graphite rods that are precisely machined to the required conic-approximation Wolter-I geometry.