Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF): an overview
Abstract
The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) is the x-ray component of NASA's Great Observatories. To be launched in late 1998, AXAF will provide unprecedented capabilities for high-resolution imaging, spectrometric imaging, and high-resolution dispersive spectroscopy, over the x-ray band from about 0.1 keV to 10 keV. With these capabilities, AXAF observations will address many of the outstanding questions in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology.
- Publication:
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X-Ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Optics
- Pub Date:
- June 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.212599
- Bibcode:
- 1995SPIE.2515..312W