The Spacelab 2 X-ray telescope - Coded mask imaging in orbit

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Dec 1988

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Astrophysical Letters and Communications (ISSN 0888-6512), vol. 27, no. 3, 1988, p. 199-209. Research supported by SERC.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Galactic Clusters, Spaceborne Telescopes, Spacelab Payloads, X Ray Imagery, X Ray Telescopes, Crab Nebula, Galactic Structure, Point Spread Functions, X Ray Sources

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The payload of the Spacelab 2 mission included a large coded mask telescope for X-ray observations in the 2.5-25 keV energy range. This is the first time that true sky images have been obtained in this energy range which is particularly important for the study of clusters of galaxies. It is also the first time that a critical evaluation of the coded mask technique used in orbital conditions has been possible. It is shown that both the sensitivity and the imaging quality obtained were very close to the theoretical expectation.

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