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11 November 1994 Optical monitor of the JET-X on the Spectrum X-Gamma
Elio Antonello, Oberto Citterio, A. Perenzoni, Ennio Poretti, A. Landi, Andrea Novi, G. Simoncini
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Abstract
The Optical Monitor is an ancillary instrument of the JET-X experiment on board of the satellite SPECTRUM-X-GAMMA. It consists of a Ritchey-Chretien telescope with an aperture of 230 mm, and two CCD detectors. The scientific objectives are the observations in the optical and UV band simultaneously with X-ray observations, the real time identification of X- ray sources with Mv <EQ 22 and detection of their variability, the improvement of the post-facto spacecraft attitude reconstruction (as a backup of the Attitude Monitor), and the serendipitous mode search for microvariability of the bright stars falling in the field of view.
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Elio Antonello, Oberto Citterio, A. Perenzoni, Ennio Poretti, A. Landi, Andrea Novi, and G. Simoncini "Optical monitor of the JET-X on the Spectrum X-Gamma", Proc. SPIE 2279, Advances in Multilayer and Grazing Incidence X-Ray/EUV/FUV Optics, (11 November 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.193162
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KEYWORDS
Stars

Charge-coupled devices

Space operations

Space telescopes

Cameras

Sensors

Telescopes

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