EXOSAT - Present status and future prospects

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Mar 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985iraj...17...31r&link_type=abstract

Irish Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0021-1052), vol., 17, March 1985, p. 31-36.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Exosat Satellite, Satellite Design, Satellite- Borne Instruments, X Ray Astronomy, Black Body Radiation, Scintillation Counters, X Ray Telescopes

Scientific paper

The design and operation of the ESA Exosat orbiting X-ray observatory (launched in May 1983) are reviewed, and some preliminary results are summarized. The value of X-ray observations for investigating hot sources assumed to be driven by accretion into neutron stars is indicated; the low-energy imaging telescopes, medium -energy experiment, and gas scintillation counter making up the Exosat payload are briefly characterized and illustrated with drawings and tables of instrument parameters; the advantages of real- time control via the continuous telemetry link and of orbital- velocity changes to permit lunar-occultation position determinations are discussed; and sample spectra and light curves are shown.

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