The making of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory: The project scientist's perspective
Abstract
The history of the development of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory is reviewed from a personal perspective. This review is necessarily biased and limited by space because it attempts to cover a time span approaching five decades.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- April 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.0913067107
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1003.1990
- Bibcode:
- 2010PNAS..107.7135W
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 17 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.