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The Joint European Telescope for X-Ray Astronomy (JET-X)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

K. A. Pounds
K. A. Pounds*
Affiliation:
X-ray Astronomy Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of LeicesterLeicester LE1 7RH, England

Abstract

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JET-X is one of the main payload elements in the Soviet Spectrum-X Gamma mission scheduled for launch in 1993. It consists of two Wolter I X-ray telescopes feeding cooled arrays of CCD’s. The combination of good angular resolution and long exposures during the four day orbit of Spectrum-X Gamma, will allow the JET-X telescopes to reach a sensitivity level ten times fainter than that of the Einstein Observatory deep survey. The CCD’s will provide good spectral data for many thousands of brighter sources over an energy band ~0.3–10 keV. The JET-X project is an international collaboration involving groups in the United Kingdom, Italy, West Germany and the Soviet Union together with an input from the Space Science Department at ESTEC. A brief description is given of the design and anticipated performance of JET-X together with illustrations of the anticipated scientific results.

Type
II. Future Missions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 123: Observatories in Earth Orbit and Beyond , 1990 , pp. 111 - 118
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990

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