The Chandra X-ray Observatory: An Astronomical Facility Available to the World
Abstract
The Chandra X-ray observatory, one of NASA’s “Great Observatories,” provides high angular and spectral resolution X-ray data which is freely available to all. In this review I describe the instruments on Chandra along with their current calibration, as well as the Chandra proposal system, the freely-available Chandra analysis software package CIAO, and the Chandra archive. As Chandra is in its 6th year of operation, the archive already contains calibrated observations of a large range of X-ray sources. The Chandra X-ray Center is committed to assisting astronomers from any country who wish to use data from the archive or propose for observations.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- December 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s10509-006-9193-x
- Bibcode:
- 2006Ap&SS.305..321S
- Keywords:
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- Scientific operations;
- Scientific analysis;
- Science data distribution;
- X-ray astronomy