Fundamental science in ESA's space science programme.
Abstract
European Space Agency missions involving fundamental science are presented. The dark mass problem and the origin of the X-ray background is tackled with the high throughout X-ray spectroscopy mission XMM; the direct measurement of the Hubble constant through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect combining observations from XMM and from the far infrared submillimetric heterodyne spectroscopy mission; an independent check of the existence of massive neutrinos and of the theory of general relativity through helioseismology on board SOHO; and the evolution of our solar system, galaxy, and maybe of the Universe through the analysis of samples of pristine material extracted from the nucleus of a comet.
- Publication:
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ESA Special Publication
- Pub Date:
- May 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988ESASP.283..193B
- Keywords:
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- Cosmology;
- European Space Programs;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- X Rays;
- Background Radiation;
- Comet Nuclei;
- Dark Matter;
- Helioseismology;
- Hubble Constant;
- Missing Mass (Astrophysics);
- Neutrinos;
- Relativity;
- Soho Mission;
- Space Sciences (General)