Abstract

The resolution of a Wolter-Schwarzschild telescope is intrinsically superior to the resolution of the corresponding paraboloid–hyperboloid telescope. The improvement is important for high resolution and wide field telescope designs having grazing angles larger than about 1.5°.

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Imaging properties of Wolter I type x-ray telescopes

W. Werner
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Aplanatic grazing incidence x-ray microscopes: design and performance

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