X-RAY ASTRONOMY

• MPE - Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching
  • X-ray Astronomy
  • ABRIXAS
  • AXAF
  • ROSAT
  • XMM

• AIP - Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
  • ABRIXAS
  • ROSAT Results Archive
  • XMM Survey Science Center

• IAAT - Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen
  • Hard X-Ray Group
  • GXUV Data Center (ROSAT)

• University of Leicester
  • X-ray astronomy group

• IoA - Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge/GB
  • IoA X-ray Group

• University of Calgary, Astronomy (Canada)
  • X-ray Astronomy
  [NEW - Jan 12]

• ISAS - X-ray Group, Kanagawa, Japan

• University of Tokyo (Makishima/Kamae Group)
  • Theoretical Astrophysics
  • Relativity and Astrophysics, Gravitational Wave Physics (Tsubono Group)
  • Research Centre for the Early Universe (109k-Homepage!)
  • X-ray astronomy (Makishima group)

• Osaka University
  X-Ray Astrononmy Group

• NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center,
  LHEA - Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
  • LHEA - X-ray Astrophysics Branch

  • HEASARC - High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center

  • ROSAT Guest Observer Facility at HEASARC
  • ASCA Guest Observer Facility at HEASARC
  • RXTE Guest Observer Facility at HEASARC

• Pennsylvania State University

• 1969: Vela 5A/B
• 1970: Uhuru
• 1975: OSO-8
• 1977: HEAO 1
• 1978: HEAO 2 = Einstein
• 1983: Exosat Observatory Data Center [ESA Estec]
• 1987: GINGA = Astro-C
• 1989: GRANAT [IKI]
  • GRANAT [NASA HEASARC]
• 1990: ROSAT
  • ROSAT Scientific Data Center [MPE]
  • ROSAT Data Archive Centre at [Leicester]
    
  • ROSAT Guest Observer Facility [NASA HEASARC]
  • ROSAT Results Archives:
    [RRA at MPE] * [RRA at AIP] * [RRA at GSFC] * [RRA at SAO] * [RRA at Leicester]
    
• 1990: BBXRT - on Columbia (STS-35)/Astro-1
• 1993: ASCA = Astro-D
  • ASCA Guest Observer Facility [NASA HEASARC]
• 1993: ALEXIS [LANL]
• 1995: RXTE - Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
  
  • RXTE Guest Observer Facility [NASA HEASARC]
• 1996: BeppoSAX
  • BeppoSAX Science Data Center [ASI]
  • The LECS Instrument on BeppoSAX [ESA]
• 1999: Chandra (AXAF)
  • Chandra Science Center [Harvard]
  • LETG Spectrometer for AXAF [MPE]
  • [Leicester]
  • AXAF: Exploring the X-ray Universe [NASA MSFC]
• 1999: ABRIXAS
  • ABRIXAS at AIP
  • ABRIXAS at MPE
• 1999: Spectrum-X-Gamma [IKI]
  • US Spectrum X-Gamma Coordination Facility [Harvard]
• 2000: XMM
  • XMM Science Operation Centre [ESA]
  • XMM Survey Science Centre [AIP]
  • XMM Survey Science Centre [MPE]
  • XMM Survey Science Centre [Leicester]
• 2000: Astro-E [ISAS]
• 2000: CATSAT [UNH]
  • Soft X-ray Spectrometer SXR [Leicester]
• 2004: Constellation-X [NASA]

• General information about High-Energy Astrophysics Missions [HEASARC]

ROSAT

ASCA

ABRIXAS

Comets - Who should have imagined ??

• Comet Hyakutake [HEASARC]
• X-Rays from Comets [MPE]

• LHEA X-ray Branch Active Galactic Nuclei Page
• IoA X-ray Group

• ROSAT Images [NASA HEASARC]
  • Stars
  • Supernova Remnants
  • Galaxies
  • Clusters of Galaxies

• Catalogues of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey
• ROSAT Source Catalogue of Pointed PSPC Observations
• ROSAT Source Browser

• WGACAT: The ROSAT WGA Catlog of ROSAT Point Sources [NASA LHEA]
• WARPS: The Wide Angle ROSAT Pointed Survey [NASA LHEA]

• Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) in X-ray Astronomy [ESA]
• Coded Aperture Imaging in High-Energy Astronomy [LHEA]
• Capillary X-ray optics will expand window on high-energy universe. [NASA] [NEW - Jan 17]
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• Center for X-ray Optics (University at Albany) [NEW - Jan 17]
• X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc. (Albany) [NEW - Jan 17]