- Introduction
- Introduction
- Proportional counters
- Ionization chamber, Proportional Counters, Pulse Amplification, Detector Gas, Cascade, PSPC, Energy Resolution, Quenching, Ageing, Example: RXTE-PCA
- Scintillation Detectors
- Introduction, Anorganic Scintillators, Photomultipliers, Typical Numbers, HEXTE
- Wolter Telescopes
- Imaging, Wolter Telescopes, Mirror manufacture, Practical Example: XMM-Newton, Practical Example: Chandra
- Charge Coupled Devices
- Reminder: Semi-Conductors, Strip Detectors, CCDs, XMM-Newton: EPIC-pn CCD, XMM-Newton: EPIC-MOS CCD, Chandra: ACIS
- Imaging above 10keV
- Collimators, Coded Mask Telescopes, INTEGRAL: IBIS, INTEGRAL: SPI
- X-Ray Data Analysis
- Formal Data Analysis, Effective Area, Response Matrix, $\chi ^2$-minimization