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The X-ray Astronomy Satellite SAX
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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The SAX satellite is forseen for launch at the end of 1992 to study the X-ray emission from galactic and extra-galactic sources in the energy range 0.1-200 keV. The payload consists of four concentrator/spectrometer systems (3 units 1-10keV, 1 unit 0.1-10keV), a high pressure gas scintillation proportional counter (3-120keV), a phoswich scintillation counter (15-200keV), and two wide field cameras (2-30keV). Together these instruments will perform the following:-
- Broad band spectroscopy (E/ΔE=12) in the energy range 0.1-10 keV with imaging resolution of 1 arcmin
- Continuum and cyclotron line spectroscopy (E/ΔE=5-20) in the wide energy range 3-200 keV
- Variability studies of bright source energy spectra on time scales from milliseconds to days and months
- Systematic long term source variability studies in selected regions of the sky down to a source intensity of 1 mCrab.
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- 8. Future X-ray Observatories
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References
Perola, G.C., 1983, Proc. of Workshop on Non-thermal and Very High Temperature Phenomena in X-ray Astronomy, eds. Perola, G.C., and Salvati, M., Rome, 19-20 December 1983, p. 175.Google Scholar
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