The X-ray Timing Explorer

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Jul 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983stia...8441045m&link_type=abstract

Summer Workshop in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Santa Cruz, CA, July 11-22, 1983, Paper. 9 p.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Spaceborne Astronomy, X Ray Astronomy, X Ray Timing Explorer, All Sky Photography, Proportional Counters, Research And Development, Satellite-Borne Instruments, Spaceborne Experiments

Scientific paper

Near the end of this decade, the X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) will provide X-ray astronomers with a tool of unprecedented sensitivity for the study of compact X-ray sources. The principal instruments, a 1 sq m proportional counter array and a 2000 sq cm phoswich array, will view the sky through coaligned one-degree collimators and provide high sensitivity over a 2-200 keV energy range. During the course of each satellite orbit, the entire sky will be scrutinized by the sky monitor experiment to a sensitivity of 0.05 Crab.

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