Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982tspa.confe...2z&link_type=abstract
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, and Optical Societ
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Grazing Incidence Telescopes, Spaceborne Astronomy, X Ray Astronomy, X Ray Astrophysics Facility, Focal Plane Devices, High Resolution, Mirrors, Photometers, Polarimeters, Spaceborne Experiments, X Ray Spectroscopy
Scientific paper
The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) now under study is to be a long-lived X-ray observatory in space. It is to be launched by the Space Shuttle, maintainable on-orbit, and retrievable for ground re-furbishment. The AXAF is conceived as an X-ray telescope with 6 nested grazing incidence X-ray mirrors (with a maximum aperture of 1.2 m) and interchangeable and replaceable focal plane instruments. The optics will provide 0.5 arcsecond imagery over a several arcminute field and somewhat reduced resolution over 1 degree in the X-ray band from 0.1 to 10 keV (1.2 to 120 A). The characteristics and expected performance of the observatory are described.
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