A Spacelab facility for spectroscopy and polarimetry of X-ray sources (EXPOS)
Abstract
A payload achieving high sensitivity and flexibility in its configuration for a series of flights on Spacelab on the NASA space shuttle to measure emission and absorption lines X-ray emitters such as cluster of galaxies, supernovae remnants, and X-ray binary systems is described. It consists of four different systems: the Bragg crystal spectrometer and polarimeter, the transmission grating spectroscopy system, the nondispersive spectrometer, and the large area nondispersive spectrometer. The energy domain and achievable spectral resolution are calculated.
- Publication:
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In its Phys. and Astrophys. from Spacelab p 63-79 (SEE N78-15089 06-12
- Pub Date:
- May 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977PhASp.......63M
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Spectroscopy;
- Expos (Spacelab Payload);
- Spacelab;
- X Ray Sources;
- Binary Stars;
- Emission Spectra;
- Performance Prediction;
- Space Shuttles;
- Supernova Remnants;
- Space Radiation