Marcela Stern

TL;DR: The Reflection Grating Spectrometers (RGS) as discussed by the authors was designed for the detection of the K-shell transitions of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, magnesium, and silicon.

TL;DR: The NuSTAR flight optics modules are glass-graphite-epoxy-composite structures to be employed for the first time in space-based X-ray optics by NuSTAR, a NASA Small Penetrator Space Explorer schedule for launch in February 2012.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the entire coating effort including the final coating design that was used for the two flight optics and present data on the performance verification of the coatings both on Si witness samples and on individual flight mirrors.

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.