Astronomy and astrophysics with the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility

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Mar 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988ssrv...47...47w&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews (ISSN 0038-6308), vol. 47, no. 1-2, 1988, p. 47-93.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Spaceborne Telescopes, X Ray Astronomy, X Ray Astrophysics Facility, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Galactic Clusters, Stellar Physics, X Ray Sources, X Ray Spectroscopy

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The optics and instruments of the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) are described. The instrument capabilities are reviewed so that potential users of AXAF may plan supporting research in the years prior to launch. The AXAF is to be built around a large-area high-resolution grazing-incidence X-ray telescope, with a complement of imaging and spectroscopic instruments which can be maintained and/or replaced in orbit. An important feature of the AXAF is the aspect system. It utilizes solid state star cameras and fiducial lights to permit both image reconstruction (on the ground) with minimal blurring due to spacecraft and internal motions, and placement of the X-ray image on the sky to an accuracy of 1 arcsec.

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