An X-ray interferometer is analogous to a neutron interferometer. It has been suggested that it may offer the very highest spatial resolution in astronomy...
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interferometry or X-ray Talbot interferometry (XTI), and polychromatic far-field interferometry (PFI). Since the first X-ray grating interferometer—consisting...
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time-dilation differences along the two paths. Like X-ray interferometers, neutron interferometers are typically made from a single large crystal of silicon...
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Interferometry (redirect from Radio Interferometer)
Solak, H H & Ziegler E (2002). "Differential x-ray phase contrast imaging using a shearing interferometer". Applied Physics Letters. 81 (17): 3287–3289...
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Nöhammer B, Solak H, Ziegler (2002). "Differential x-ray phase contrast imaging using a shearing interferometer". Applied Physics Letters. 81 (17): 3287–3289...
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X-ray spectroscopy is a general term for several spectroscopic techniques for characterization of materials by using x-ray radiation. When an electron...
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Sagnac effect (redirect from Sagnac interferometer)
Sagnac effect manifests itself in a setup called a ring interferometer or Sagnac interferometer. A beam of light is split and the two beams are made to...
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LIGO (redirect from Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational...
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The Virgo interferometer is a large-scale instrument for detecting gravitational waves. It is in Santo Stefano a Macerata, near the city of Pisa, Italy...
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fingerprint reader, optical disks for long-term data storage, and X-ray interferometer. Indium Phosphide: These single crystals are particularly appropriate...
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Today 17, 5, 21 (1964) "A Tunable X-ray Interferometer and the Empirical Determination of Phase Diffracted X-rays" "Supernovae, Neutrinos, and Neutron...
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In optics, a Fabry–Pérot interferometer (FPI) or etalon is an optical cavity made from two parallel reflecting surfaces (i.e.: thin mirrors). Optical waves...
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crystal structure (≈ 192 pm) would be measured using a scanning X-ray interferometer. This permits its atomic spacing to be determined with an uncertainty...
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interferometric gravitational-wave search refers to the use of extremely large interferometers built on the ground to passively detect (or "observe") gravitational...
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List of space telescopes (redirect from List of X-ray space telescopes)
(astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave, and radio. Telescopes that...
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telescope interferometer that operated simultaneously at 2.25 and 8.3 GHz to monitor transient, galactic X-ray binaries, AGN's and Gamma-ray sources. Amongst...
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Very Large Telescope (redirect from VLT Interferometer)
combine them into an astronomical interferometer (VLTI), which is used to resolve small objects. The interferometer also includes a set of four 1.8 meter...
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List of astronomy acronyms (redirect from X-Ray Flash)
ROSAT X-ray HRI, a catalog of sources detected by ROSAT in pointed observations with its High Resolution Imager 1RXS – (catalog) 1ROSAT X-ray Survey...
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Neutron star (section X-ray binaries)
associated with kilonovae and short-duration gamma-ray bursts. In 2017, the LIGO and Virgo interferometer sites observed GW170817, the first direct detection...
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Collimator (category X-ray instrumentation)
a shearing interferometer. In X-ray optics, gamma ray optics, and neutron optics, a collimator is a device that filters a stream of rays so that only...
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Double-slit experiment (redirect from Double-slit interferometer)
creating an interference pattern. Another version is the Mach–Zehnder interferometer, which splits the beam with a beam splitter. In the basic version of...
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MERLIN (redirect from Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network)
The Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) is an interferometer array of radio telescopes spread across England. The array is run from...
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Cassiopeia A (section X-ray source)
Cas X-1 is Cas A, a Type II SNR at RA 23h 18m Dec +58° 30′. The designations Cassiopeia X-1, Cas XR-1, Cas X-1 are no longer used, but the X-ray source...
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the interferometer methods based upon the speed of light. For objects such as crystals and diffraction gratings, diffraction is used with X-rays and electron...
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diffraction interferometer (PDI) is a type of common-path interferometer. Unlike an amplitude-splitting interferometer, such as a Michelson interferometer, which...
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analysis. Single-shot multi-contrast x-ray imaging gained its importance recently in contrast to Talbot–Lau interferometer because of the less optical element...
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Constellation-X (Con-X) (cancelled - Merged with International X-ray Observatory (IXO)): the next-generation X-ray space observatory Laser Interferometer Space...
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radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. Electromagnetic waves are emitted by electrically charged particles...
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Quantum mechanics (section Mach–Zehnder interferometer)
illustrating the discretization of energy for bound states. The Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) illustrates the concepts of superposition and interference with...
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been associated with a spectral signature in the context of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Spectroscopy is a branch of science...
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