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AXAF in Context: A Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Martin Elvis
Martin Elvis*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden St., Cambridge MA, 02138, USA

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AXAF has been a long time, 20 years, in coming. This has made AXAF so overfamiliar that it is hard to see how revolutionary it still is. Some even describe AXAF as the end of the line in X-ray technology; a never to be repeated venture to high resolution. This view is wrong. To see why we need to see where X-ray astrophysics is going.

Type
Session 2: Future Space Programs
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 188: The Hot Universe , 1998 , pp. 79 - 82
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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