The Invisible Sky Rosat and the Age of X-Ray Astronomy
- 7 Astronomy is not confined to the exploration of the "courage of omission" and concentrate on those visible sky: Since the fifties, scientists have opened areas that can be conveyed without substantial more and more new windows to the universe, prerequisites; but we have tried to take i...
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Copernicus
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Invisible Sky
- The History of X-Ray Astronomy
- X-Rays from the Sun?- A Fortuitous Discovery
- Filling up the Sky
- The Moon as Observing Assistant
- Rotating Blinders
- With Uhuru Toward New Frontiers
- Cygnus Cycles
- Magnetic Remote Sensing
- Einstein and EXOSAT
- ROSAT Ödash Creating a Satellite
- A New Type of Detector
- A Key Experience
- Pulsars Ödash Energy Beacons in the Universe
- The HEXE Balloon Program
- The Search for the Black Hole
- Contacts with Moscow
- ROSAT Ödash The ROentgen SATellite Project
- Grazing Reflections
- Technical Preparations
- Difficult Production
- How to Glue Glass to Metal?- ROSAT Goes International
- Imaging of X-Rays
- An Artificial "Optic Nerve
- Building a Satellite
- Commands from Bavari
- Early Morning Shock
- The Most Accurate X-Ray Map
- Astro-Navigation for ROSAT
- X-Ray Astronomy in Our Galaxy
- X-Rays from a Comet
- X-Rays from the Moon
- The Demystification of the Sky
- The Sun as a Prototypical Star
- What Heats the Corona?
- The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
- Helpful Mass Screenings
- Magnetic Fields Determine
- X-Ray Luminosity
- ROSAT Registers Strongest X-Ray Burst
- X-Ray Views into Cosmic Delivery Rooms
- X-Rays from the Sirius System
- The End of a Solar-Type Star
- Consequences of Proximity
- The Source of the X-Rays
- Magnetic White Dwarfs
- A Mysterious Gap
- Exploding Stars
- Supernova 1987 A
- ROSAT's First Measurements
- The Fast Supernova 1993
- Galactic Supernovae
- A Stellar Explosion in the Stone Age
- Supersonic Stellar Debris
- Pulsars in X-Rays
- Revealing Cooling
- Enigma Geminga
- Classical X-Ray Binaries
- Difficult Search
- Black Holes
- The Particle Slingshot SS 433
- Impenetrable Clouds
- A Hot Neighborhood
- Bubbles in the Milky Way
- The Galactic Center
- Perhaps a Black Hole?- X-Ray Astronomy Outside Our Galaxy
- Our Nearest Neighbors
- Fusion Processes on the Surface
- A New X-Ray Pulsar
- Super-Bubbles in the LMC
- The 30 Doradus Complex
- The AndromedaGalaxy
- Starburst Galaxies
- Active Galaxies
- An End to the Confusing Variety
- Multispectral Cooperation
- Gigantic Energy Beacons
- Clusters of Galaxies
- A Deep View Through the Lockman Hole
- Epilogue
- List of Acronyms
- Index