The EXOSS mission for hard X-ray astronomy

Details The EXOSS mission for hard X-ray astronomy The EXOSS mission for hard X-ray astronomy

Aug 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990aipc..211..325g&link_type=abstract

IN: High-energy astrophysics in the 21st century; Proceedings of the Workshop, Taos, NM, Dec. 11-14, 1989 (A91-47977 20-90). New

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Spaceborne Astronomy, X Ray Astronomy, Exos Satellites, Space Station Payloads

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The basis for the Energetic X-ray Observatory on Space Station is described. Attention is given to the principal scientific objectives of EXOSS, namely, to study in detail AGN and quasars (some 10,000 should be detectable) as well as compact Galactic sources (accreting white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes), and to probe both nonthermal and high-temperature thermal phenomena and the fundamental nature of these objects. The principal technical characteristics of the EXOSS baseline instrument, which overlap in sensitivity in the approximately 40-to-60-keV band, are presented. EXOSS should facilitate efforts to determine: the central power source and the dominant emission mechanisms in AGN, the ways in which the various AGN classes differ as hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray emitters, and the contribution of AGN to the diffuse hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray background.

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