Probing the cosmic x-ray laboratory with the Chandra HETGS

Kathryn A. Flanagan; Claude R. Canizares; Daniel Dewey; A. Fredericks; J. C. Houck; J. C. Lee; Herman L. Marshall; Mark L. Schattenburg

doi:10.1117/12.461738

11 March 2003 Probing the cosmic X-ray laboratory with the Chandra HETGS

Kathryn A. Flanagan, Claude R. Canizares, Daniel Dewey, A. Fredericks, J. C. Houck, J. C. Lee, Herman L. Marshall, Mark L. Schattenburg

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Proceedings Volume 4851, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Telescopes and Instruments for Astronomy; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461738
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

The High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) on the Chandra X-ray Observatory is a powerful tool for studying the astrophysical properties of X-ray emitting objects. Emission and absorption lines and features can probe the physical properties of stellar winds, relativistic jets, supernova remnants (SNRs), active galactic nuclei and the intergalactic medium. The capabilities of this instrument are illustrated through highlights of HETGS science, with examples including the jet structure in SS433, a Doppler velocity map of SNR E0102-72, and evidence of abundance anomalies in the microquasar GRS1915+105.

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Kathryn A. Flanagan, Claude R. Canizares, Daniel Dewey, A. Fredericks, J. C. Houck, J. C. Lee, Herman L. Marshall, and Mark L. Schattenburg "Probing the cosmic X-ray laboratory with the Chandra HETGS", Proc. SPIE 4851, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Telescopes and Instruments for Astronomy, (11 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461738

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