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X-Ray Astronomy with the Einstein Satellite - Proceedings of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society Meeting on X-Ray Astronomy held at the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., January 28-30, 1980 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
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X-Ray Astronomy with the Einstein Satellite - Proceedings of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society Meeting on X-Ray Astronomy held at the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., January 28-30, 1980 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981)
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 87
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Riccardo Giacconi Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The
meeting of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American
Astronomical Society, held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January
28- 30, 1980, marks the coming of age of X-ray astronomy. In the 18
years since the discovery of the first extrasolar X-ray source, Sco
X-l, the field has experienced an extremely rapid instrumentation
development culminating with the launch on November 13, 1978 of the
Einstein Ob servatory (HEAO-2) which first introduced the use of
high resolution imaging telescopes to the study of galactic and
extragalactic X-ray sources. The Einstein Observatory instruments
can detect sources as faint as 10-7 Sco X-lor about 17 magnitudes
fainter. The technological developments in the field have been
paralleled by a host of new discoveries: in the early 1960's the
detection of 9 "X-ray stars," objects 10 times more luminous in
X-rays than the Sun and among the brightest stellar objects at all
wavelengths; in the late 1960's and early 1970's the discovery of
the nature of such systems which were identified as collapsed stars
(neutron stars and black holes) in mass exchange binary systems,
and the detection of the first few extragalactic sources."
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