The Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility Instrument Interface Requirements

Martin C. Weisskopf

doi:10.1117/12.943780

23 October 1984 The Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility Instrument Interface Requirements

Martin C. Weisskopf

Proceedings Volume 0493, Optical Platforms; (1984) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.943780
Event: The National Symposium and Workshop on Optical Platforms, 1984, Huntsville, United States

Abstract

The Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility will be an X-ray observatory built around a large-area, high-resolution grazing incidence X-ray telescope. Designed to operate in space for at least 15 years, AXAF will be operated as a major national facility with the majority of the observing time set aside for guest investigators. The instruments that will detect the X-rays will be supplied to the observatory by the scientific community. A discussion of the categories of instrumentation and the interface requirements that they will most likely impose is presented.

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Martin C. Weisskopf "The Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility Instrument Interface Requirements", Proc. SPIE 0493, Optical Platforms, (23 October 1984); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.943780

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