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X-ray Telescope (XRT)

     

The X-ray telescope (XRT) on ROSAT consists of the following subsystems:

A schematic view of the XRT and its various subsystems is shown in Fig. 2.1.       

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Figure 2.1: Schematic cross-sectional view of the ROSAT telescope tube housing the fourfold nested 80 cm Wolter type I mirror system and the focal plane turret containing two PSPCs with filter wheels and one HRI\ [Trümper1982].





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