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The Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M.C. Weisskopf
M.C. Weisskopf*
Affiliation:
Space Science Laboratory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama 35812

Abstract

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The Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) is a remarkable and unique scientific endeavor. It will be a space-based earth orbiting X-ray observatory, designed to address fundamental questions in astronomy and astrophysics. It is remarkable in that it represents enormous advances in observational capability. It is unique in that it will be the best means of obtaining high resolution, spectrally resolved X-ray images of astronomical objects for the rest of this century and beyond.

Type
II. Future Missions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 123: Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond , 1990 , pp. 71 - 79
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990

References

Weisskopf, M.C., 1988, Astronomy and Astrophysics with the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, Space Science Reviews, 47, pp. 47–93 Google Scholar