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The Legacy Journal Club
Nick White
HEASARC
Every issue of Legacy highlights articles published elsewhere that are of
particular interest to archival research in the high energy domain. This issue
reviews an article by Bradt, Ohashi and Pounds which will appear in Reviews
of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 30, September 1992.
X-ray astronomy from orbiting spacecraft is a relatively young activity with
very few flight opportunities. There have been 25 X-ray missions launched over
the past 25 yrs. Some, like Uhuru, are household names to astrophysicists while
others are less well-known. Virtually every mission has contributed a new facet
to the understanding of the X-ray sky. Bradt, Ohashi and Pounds (1992) have
written an excellent review that summarizes the various X-ray missions that
have been launched and their principle accomplishments. They also list the
future missions that are expected to be launched over the coming decade.
All of these data sets are potentially of interest to HEASARC users. The
HEASARC staff is currently looking into the status of each dataset and will
work with the HEASARC users group to decide which datasets should be recovered.
We reproduce here a summary of all the X-ray missions listed by Bradt, Ohashi
and Pounds (Table 1), along with the references that describe each mission
(Table 2). The users group or the HEASARC staff would be interested to hear
about any of these datasets, especially those from the less well-known
missions, which might have some feature of particular interest.
Table 1. Missions with Celestial X-ray Astronomy Instrumentsa
Mission Dates X-ray Instruments Featuresb Sciene
(Spin/Point) (sample)
OSO-3 1967-1968 H S Diffuse bkgnd.
OSO-5 1969-1972 H S Diffuse bkgnd.
Velaseries 1969-1979 M 4 satellites X-ray bursts
Uhuru 1970-1973 M S, survey Binaries, clusters
OSO-7 1971-1973 M, H S, survey 4-color catalog
Copernicus(OAO-3) 1972-1981 M, C P, primarily UV SNR mapping
ANS 1974-1976 L, M, C, B P X-ray burst
Salyut-4 1974-1975 L, M P Cyg X-1, Her X-1
Ariel-5 1974-1980 M, B, Pol, SM, MC S, survey AGN, transients
Apollo-Soyuz 1975 L, P SMC X-1 pulsing
SAS-3 1975-1979 L, M, MC, C S, P Bursts, positions
OSO-8 1975-1978 L, M, H, B, Pol S, low bkgnd. Fe line emission
HEAO-1 1977-1979 L, M, H, MC S, P, Large area All-sky catalog
Einstein 1978-1981 F, IPC, HRI, P, X-ray imaging Clusters, QSO's,
B, SS, M, TG SNR
Ariel-6 1979-1981 L, M, C Pri. Cosmic ray GX 1+4
Hakucho 1979-1984 L, M, MC, SM S Bursts
Astron 1983-1988 M P Her X-1 low state
Tenma 1983-1984 L, M, G, C, SM, MC S, Good spectral resol. Fe lines
EXOSAT 1983-1986 L, M, G, F, TG P, 4-day orbit QPO's
Ginga 1987-1991 M, SM P, Large area SN1987A, AGN
Kvant/Mir 1987- M, H, CM, G Space Sta. MIR SN1987A
Granat 1989 M, H, CM P, 4-day orbit Gal. Ctr. imaging
ROSAT 1990- F, IPC, HRI P Soft survey
Astro 1 (BBXRT) 1990 CF, SS P, 8-d mission Spectra
cAstro-D 1993 CF, CCD, G P Spectros., Imaging
cSpectrum-X 1994 F, CM, SM, Pol, P, 4-day orbit Spectros., Imaging
SS, IPC, CCD
c SAX 1994 CF, G(L,M), H, CM P, Equatorial orbit Spectra, Timing
c XTE 1996 M, H, SM P, Rapid resp. to Timing, Spectra
transients
cAXAF 1998 F, TG, HRI, B, P, 0.5" ang. Imaging, Spectros.
Cal, CCD resol.
c XMM 1998 F, RG, CCD, P 24-h orbit, Imaging, Spectros.
Opt/UV High throughput,
Resol. 15"
a See Table 2 for references
b Low-earth orbits (period ~ 95 min) unless otherwise
indicated
c Planned missions: Capabilities and dates may be uncertain
B: Bragg Crystal Spectroscopy
Cal: Microcalorimeter
C: Collector (reflecting)
CF: Conical approx. focusing
CM: Coded-Mask imaging
F: Focusing optics
G: Gas Scintillation Prop. Ctr.
H: High Energy (10-200 keV) crystal scintillator
HRI: High resol. ImagerIPC: Imaging Prop. Ctr.
L: Low energy (0.1 - 1 keV) prop ctr.
M: Medium energy (1 - 20 keV) prop ctr.
MC: Modulation Collimator
Pol: Polarimetry
RG: Reflection grating
SM: Sky Monitor
SS: Solid-state spectrometer
TG: Transmission Gratings
P: Pointed (= 3-axis stabilized)
S: Spinners (instr. FOV may lie along spin axis)
Table 2: References for mission/instrument descriptions
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