HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.

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The Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT)

artist concept of BBXRT in the Shuttle bay in flight
The Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT) was flown on the space shuttle Columbia (STS-35) as part of the ASTRO-1 payload. It was designed and built at the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at NASA/GSFC.
BBXRT was the first focusing X-ray telescope operating over a broad energy range 0.3-12 keV with a moderate energy resolution (90 eV at 1 keV and 150eV at 6 keV).

Mission Characteristics

* Lifetime : December 2 1990 - December 11 1990
* Energy Range : 0.3 - 12 keV
* Payload :
    Two Co-Aligned Telescopes each with a segmented Si(Li) solid state
    spectrometer (detector A and B) composite of five pixels.
    Total FOV 17.4 ´ diameter, Central pixel FOV 4 ´ diameter
    Total area 765 cm2 at 1.5 keV, and 300 cm2 at 7 keV
* Science Highlight :
  • Resolved iron K line in the binaries Cen X-3 and Cyg X-2
  • Detect evidence of line broadening in NGC 4151
  • Study of cooling flow in clusters
* Archive : HEASARC hosts Spectra, Lightcurves and Raw data
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Page authors: Lorella Angelini Jesse Allen
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HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.