History of X-ray telescopes and astronomy

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Aug 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009exa....25..143g&link_type=abstract

Experimental Astronomy, Volume 25, Issue 1-3, pp. 143-156

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History, X-Ray Telescopes, Astronomy, Stellar Systems, Universe

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The development of X-ray telescopes over the last 45 years is briefly summarized. The first applications to the study of solar X-ray emission are described up to the 1973 Skylab mission. The rather convoluted path that led to the first stellar X-ray orbiting telescope Einstein (1978) and later to Chandra (1999) are discussed. During this 45 years period the angular resolution improved from 20 to 0.5 arc sec and the sensitivity by ten billions. X-ray observations have discovered new types of stellar systems (binary X-ray sources containing neutron stars and black holes) and intergalactic high temperature plasmas containing most of the baryonic mass of the universe. They have become an indispensable tool to study the role of energetic phenomena in the creation and dynamic evolution of cosmic structures. The methodology introduced by X-ray astronomy has influenced all of astronomy.

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