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- From: nousek@astro.psu.edu (John A. Nousek)
- Subject: Re: Japanese X-ray satellite: Astro_D
- In-Reply-To: rwmurphr@wildcat.ecn.uoknor.edu's message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:09:21 GMT
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- Astro-D will be an outstanding spectroscopic observatory, but
- it is not the first X-ray spectroscopy experiment. The Focal
- Plane Crystal Spectrometer on Einstein had higher spectral
- resolving power, but due to the low efficiency of Bragg scattering
- off the crystals had low quantum efficiency. Other spectroscopic
- instruments included the Objective Gratings on Einstein and EXOSAT,
- the SSS (a Si(Li) detector on Einstein) and the BBXRT on the Astro-1
- mission.
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- But for the combination of moderate spatial resolution and large
- effective area the Astro-D instrument will be able to take ground
- breaking spectra of nearly every source that it looks at (and
- won't be matched until the launches of AXAF-I and XMM around 1998-2000).
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- John Nousek
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