Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) also known as Insight (Chinese: 慧眼) is a Chinese X-ray space observatory, launched on June 15, 2017 to observe... 6 KB (327 words) - 08:48, 1 February 2024 |
An X-ray telescope (XRT) is a telescope that is designed to observe remote objects in the X-ray spectrum. X-rays are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere... 25 KB (3,103 words) - 06:24, 1 February 2024 |
This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared... 125 KB (5,425 words) - 14:28, 20 March 2024 |
the X-ray beams for research techniques such as X-ray crystallography, X-ray fluorescence, small-angle X-ray scattering, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase-contrast... 21 KB (2,665 words) - 20:00, 23 March 2024 |
produces flashlights for mounting on weapons Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope or Insight, a Chinese X-ray space observatory Insight (public organization)... 3 KB (393 words) - 17:55, 11 November 2022 |
XPoSat (redirect from X-ray Polarimeter Satellite) cosmic X-rays. It was launched on 1 January 2024 on a PSLV rocket, and it has an expected operational lifespan of at least five years. The telescope was developed... 18 KB (1,596 words) - 18:53, 14 March 2024 |
X-ray telescopes that may soon be able to verify the result conclusively such as China's Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) and NASA's Imaging X-ray... 210 KB (26,476 words) - 11:07, 8 March 2024 |
(such as ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, and gamma rays) and are thus impossible to observe using ground-based telescopes. Being above the atmosphere, these... 65 KB (632 words) - 22:43, 27 March 2024 |
Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (category X-ray telescopes) transmission of solar flare X-ray and gamma ray emissions through to the detectors as the spacecraft spins around the axis of the telescope tube. The modulated... 21 KB (2,483 words) - 14:51, 14 February 2024 |
Cygnus X-1 (abbreviated Cyg X-1) is a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole... 66 KB (7,351 words) - 14:10, 24 March 2024 |
Electromagnetic spectrum (section X-rays) some types of nebulae. However, X-ray telescopes must be placed outside the Earth's atmosphere to see astronomical X-rays, since the great depth of the atmosphere... 46 KB (4,893 words) - 16:20, 28 March 2024 |
Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (category X-ray telescopes) X-rays, in orbit since 1999 List of X-ray space telescopes Scientific research on the International Space Station NuSTAR, NASA Explorer-class hard X-ray... 14 KB (1,278 words) - 19:06, 27 December 2023 |
High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 (category X-ray telescopes) HEAO-1 was an X-ray telescope launched in 1977. HEAO-1 surveyed the sky in the X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (0.2 keV – 10 MeV), providing... 10 KB (1,211 words) - 15:23, 7 January 2024 |
Granat (category X-ray telescopes) reentered the Earth's atmosphere on May 25, 1999. The hard X-ray and low-energy gamma-ray SIGMA telescope was a collaboration between CESR (Toulouse) and CEA... 19 KB (1,806 words) - 19:51, 5 September 2023 |
exhibits quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), has a modulation of 62 days in its X-ray amplitude. M82 X-2: An unusual ULX that was discovered in 2014 to... 15 KB (1,878 words) - 01:09, 4 January 2024 |
energy of hard X-rays and γ-rays is too high to be reflected or refracted, and simply passes through the lenses and mirrors of optical telescopes. Image... 7 KB (760 words) - 08:27, 5 March 2024 |
incorrect estimation of the telescope's sensitivity. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is searching for similar gamma rays. In 2009, an as yet unexplained... 140 KB (15,304 words) - 19:23, 28 March 2024 |
from which the burst had originated, it detected a fading X-ray emission. Ground-based telescopes later identified a fading optical counterpart as well.... 30 KB (4,043 words) - 00:17, 21 July 2023 |
highenergy astrophysics, and led Insight-HXMT (Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope), China's first X-ray astronomical satellite. JPL · 96612 96623 Leani... 9 KB (419 words) - 19:27, 20 November 2023 |
Supernova (section Telescope findings) 56Fe. Later measurements by space gamma-ray telescopes of the small fraction of the 56Co and 57Co gamma rays that escaped the SN 1987A remnant without... 198 KB (21,723 words) - 18:51, 29 February 2024 |
HEAO Program (category Space telescopes) and spectral resolution. The A3, or Modulation Collimator (MC) instrument, provided high-precision positions of X-ray sources, accurate enough to permit... 5 KB (649 words) - 22:09, 24 January 2024 |
annihilation signal, include the Fermi-LAT gamma ray telescope and the VERITAS ground-based gamma ray observatory. Although the annihilation of WIMPs into... 45 KB (5,455 words) - 00:54, 23 December 2023 |
European Retrievable Carrier (category Space telescopes) Occultation Radiometer Instrument (ORI) (Belgium) Wide Angle Telescope for Cosmic Hard X-rays (WATCH) (Denmark) Timeband Capture Cell Experiment (TICCE)... 10 KB (908 words) - 15:34, 18 March 2023 |