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This chapter discusses the astrophysics with photons having an energy up to hundreds of keV. X-rays are not able to penetrate atmosphere and space based observatories are needed. Telescopes for UV and softX-rays use reflective elements based on grazing incidence. Higher energy X-rays are collected using collimator telescopes or coded aperture masks. The ultraviolet part of the spectrum is an hybrid, from the point of view of instrumentation, of the high and low energy astronomy techniques.
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Poggiani, R. (2017). Ultraviolet and X-Ray Astronomy. In: High Energy Astrophysical Techniques. UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44729-2_11
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