THE ASTROPHYSICAL IMPORTANCE OF ONE OF THE PIONEERING X-RAY OBSERVATORIES
IMAGING X-RAY ASTRONOMY:
A Decade of Einstein Observatory Achievements
Edited by Martin Elvis
Many contributed articles by experts on the first decade of imaging x-ray astronomy
Illustrated with Images, graphs, and diagrams
Description: Martin Elvis, Editor: IMAGING X-RAY ASTRONOMY: A Decade of Einstein Observatory Achievements. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press., 1990 ,7 x 10 in., 248 pp. Many diagrams images and graphs.
Condition: Like new condition-hardbound in pictorial binding. Clean, Crisp, unmarked, and tightly bound. Overall NF condition.
Information: . We are pleased to offer this collection of essays on the results of the pioneering Einstein X-Ray Observatory, based on a symposium held at Harvard in 1989, the first high-resolution imaging x-ray observatory using grazing-incidence optics, and the predecessor of the Chandra X-Ray observatory. Edited by an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for astrophysics, and containing contributions from many of the premier x-ray astronomers of the era. Among the many contributors: Harvey Tananbaum on the history of X-ray astronomy; Jeff Linsky on Stellar sources of X-Rays (chromospherically active stars and the like); Joe Patterson on Cataclysmic variables; Claude Canizares on Thermal Plamas, I.M. Gioia on sky surveys in the X_ray; R. Giacconi on the future of X-Ray Astronomy; Fred Walter on Low Mass Star Formation; Fred Seward on the Vela Supernova Remnant and other SNR; France Cordova on Active Galactic Nuclei; G. Fabbiano on the EInstein Database; Various other authors.
An excellent addition to any astrophysicist's library or a collection on the history and practice of X-Ray astronomy and high-energy astrophysics.
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