Wolter type II telescope
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The Wolter type II telescope is a specialized grazing-incidence X-ray telescope design that uses a combination of parabolic and hyperbolic mirror segments arranged differently from the type I configuration to focus high-energy radiation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wolter type II telescope canonical | 1 |
| Wolter type III telescope | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15838841 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wolter type II telescope Context triple: [Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope, hasVariant, Wolter type II telescope]
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Cassegrain telescope
A Cassegrain telescope is a reflecting telescope design that uses a combination of a primary concave mirror and a secondary convex mirror to fold the optical path and produce a compact instrument with a long effective focal length.
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Schmidt telescope
A Schmidt telescope is a wide-field reflecting telescope design that uses a spherical primary mirror and a correcting lens to capture sharp images over a large area of the sky.
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Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope design
The Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope design is a compact catadioptric optical system that combines a spherical primary mirror with a Schmidt corrector plate to provide long focal lengths in a short, portable tube widely used in amateur and professional astronomy.
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Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope design
The Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope design is a compact catadioptric optical system that uses a spherical primary mirror and a meniscus corrector lens to provide long focal lengths with well-corrected, high-contrast images in a relatively short tube.
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Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope
A Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope is a specialized X-ray imaging system that uses nested, shallowly angled mirror surfaces to focus high-energy X-ray photons that would otherwise penetrate or be absorbed by conventional optical mirrors.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wolter type II telescope Target entity description: The Wolter type II telescope is a specialized grazing-incidence X-ray telescope design that uses a combination of parabolic and hyperbolic mirror segments arranged differently from the type I configuration to focus high-energy radiation.
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A.
Cassegrain telescope
A Cassegrain telescope is a reflecting telescope design that uses a combination of a primary concave mirror and a secondary convex mirror to fold the optical path and produce a compact instrument with a long effective focal length.
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B.
Schmidt telescope
A Schmidt telescope is a wide-field reflecting telescope design that uses a spherical primary mirror and a correcting lens to capture sharp images over a large area of the sky.
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C.
Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope design
The Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope design is a compact catadioptric optical system that combines a spherical primary mirror with a Schmidt corrector plate to provide long focal lengths in a short, portable tube widely used in amateur and professional astronomy.
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D.
Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope design
The Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope design is a compact catadioptric optical system that uses a spherical primary mirror and a meniscus corrector lens to provide long focal lengths with well-corrected, high-contrast images in a relatively short tube.
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E.
Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope
A Wolter type I grazing-incidence telescope is a specialized X-ray imaging system that uses nested, shallowly angled mirror surfaces to focus high-energy X-ray photons that would otherwise penetrate or be absorbed by conventional optical mirrors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wolter type III telescope