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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ROSAT : The Roentgen Satellite

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The Roentgen Satellite, ROSAT, a Germany/US/UK collaboration, was launched on June 1, 1990 and operated for almost 9 years. The first 6 months of the mission were dedicated to the all sky-survey (using the Position Sensitive Proportional Counter detector), followed by the pointed phase. The survey obtained by ROSAT was the first X-ray and XUV all-sky survey using an imaging telescope with an X-ray sensitivity of about a factor of 1000 better than that of UHURU. During the pointed phase ROSAT made deep observations of a wide variety of objects.

Mission Characteristics

* Lifetime : 1 June 1990 - 12 February 1999
* Energy Range : X-ray 0.1 - 2.5 keV , EUV 62-206 eV
* Special Feature : All sky-survey in the soft X-ray band
* Payload :
  • An X-ray telescope used in conjunction with one of the following instruments (0.1-2.5 keV)
    • Position Sensitive Proportional Counter
      (PSPC) 2 units : detector B, used for the pointed phase, & detector C ,used for the survey
      FOV 2 ° diameter eff area 240 cm2 at 1 keV
      energy resolution of deltaE/E=0.43 (E/0.93)-0.5
    • High Resolution Imager (HRI)
      FOV 38 ' square ; eff area 80 cm2 at 1 keV
      ~ 2 arcsec spatial resolution (FWHM)
  • A Wide Field Camera with its own mirror system
    (62-206 eV) FOV 5 ° diameter
* Science Highlights:
  • X-ray all-sky survey catalog, more than 150000 objects
  • XUV all-sky survey catalog (479 objects)
  • Source catalogs from the pointed phase (PSPC and HRI) containing ~ 100000 serendipitous sources
  • Detailed morphology of supernova remnants and clusters of galaxies.
  • Detection of shadowing of diffuse X-ray emission by molecular clouds.
  • Detection (Finally!) of pulsations from Geminga.
  • Detection of isolated neutron stars.
  • Discovery of X-ray emission from comets.
  • Observation of X-ray emission from the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy with Jupiter.
* Archive : HEASARC hosts Catalogs, Spectra, Lightcurves, Images 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.