Hard x-ray telescopes to be onboard ASTRO-H.

The new Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite, ASTRO-H, will carry two identical hard x-ray telescopes (HXTs), which cover the energy range of 5 to 80 keV. The HXT mirrors employ tightly nested, conically approximated thin-foil Wolter-I optics, and the mirror surfaces are coated with Pt/C depth-graded multilayers to enhance the hard x-ray effective area by means of Bragg reflection. The HXT comprises foils 120-450 mm in diameter and 200 mm in length, with a focal length of 12 m.

Internucleotide-linkage formation via the phosphoramidite method using a carboxylic acid as a promoter.

This paper describes utility of a carboxylic acid, such as 2,4-dinitrobenzoic acid, as a promoter for internucleotide-linkage formation via the phosphoramidite method.