The Chandra X-ray Observatory: An Astronomical Facility Available to the World |
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| Authors: | Randall K Smith |
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| Institution: | (1) NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA;(2) Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA |
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| Abstract: | The Chandra X-ray observatory, one of NASA’s “Great Observatories,” provides high angular and spectral resolution X-ray data which is freely available to all. In this review I describe the instruments on Chandra along with their current calibration, as well as the Chandra proposal system, the freely-available Chandra analysis software package CIAO, and the Chandra archive. As Chandra is in its 6th year of operation, the archive already contains calibrated observations of a large range of X-ray sources. The Chandra X-ray Center is committed to assisting astronomers from any country who wish to use data from the archive or propose for observations. |
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| Keywords: | Scientific operations Scientific analysis Science data distribution X-ray astronomy |
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