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The invisible sky : ROSAT and the age of x-ray astronomy / Bernd Aschenbach, Hermann-Michael Hahn and Joachim Trumper ; translated by Helmut Jenkner.

By: Aschenbach, B.
Contributor(s): Hahn, Hermann-Michael | Truemper, J. (Joachim), 1933-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Copernicus, 1998Description: 175 p. : col.ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0387949283.Subject(s): ROSAT. Artificial satellite) | X-ray astronomyDDC classification: 522.6863
Contents:
Introduction -- The history of X-ray astronomy -- ROSAT - Creating a satellite -- X-ray astronomy in our galaxy -- X-ray astronomy outside our galaxy.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Invisible Sky tells the story of one of the most successful scientific instruments ever launched through the words of two of the scientists who were instrumental in the design and launching of the satellite, along with Hermann-Michael Hahn, an accomplished science journalist. This extraordianry collaboration chronicles the beginnings, early failures, construction, and deployment of the most famous of X-ray observatories in a highly readable account of cutting-edge science illustrated with spectacular colour images from ROSAT.

Originally published: Birkhaus Verlag, Basel, Switzerland, 1996.
Includes index.

Introduction -- The history of X-ray astronomy -- ROSAT - Creating a satellite -- X-ray astronomy in our galaxy -- X-ray astronomy outside our galaxy.

Translation of: Der unscihtbare Himmel.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Invisible Sky
  • The History of X-Ray Astronomy
  • X-Rays from the Sun?- A Fortuitous Discovery
  • Filling up the Sky
  • The Moon as Observing Assistant
  • Rotating Blinders
  • With Uhuru Toward New Frontiers
  • Cygnus Cycles
  • Magnetic Remote Sensing
  • Einstein and EXOSAT
  • ROSAT [$$$]Odash Creating a Satellite
  • A New Type of Detector
  • A Key Experience
  • Pulsars [$$$]Odash Energy Beacons in the Universe
  • The HEXE Balloon Program
  • The Search for the Black Hole
  • Contacts with Moscow
  • ROSAT [$$$]Odash The ROentgen SATellite Project
  • Grazing Reflections
  • Technical Preparations
  • Difficult Production
  • How to Glue Glass to Metal?- ROSAT Goes International
  • Imaging of X-Rays
  • An Artificial "Optic Nerve
  • Building a Satellite
  • Commands from Bavari
  • Early Morning Shock
  • The Most Accurate X-Ray Map
  • Astro-Navigation for ROSAT
  • X-Ray Astronomy in Our Galaxy
  • X-Rays from a Comet
  • X-Rays from the Moon
  • The Demystification of the Sky
  • The Sun as a Prototypical Star
  • What Heats the Corona?
  • The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
  • Helpful Mass Screenings
  • Magnetic Fields Determine
  • X-Ray Luminosity
  • ROSAT Registers Strongest X-Ray Burst
  • X-Ray Views into Cosmic Delivery Rooms
  • X-Rays from the Sirius System
  • The End of a Solar-Type Star
  • Consequences of Proximity
  • The Source of the X-Rays
  • Magnetic White Dwarfs
  • A Mysterious Gap
  • Exploding Stars
  • Supernova 1987 A.
  • ROSAT's First Measurements
  • The Fast Supernova 1993
  • Galactic Supernovae
  • A Stellar Explosion in the Stone Age
  • Supersonic Stellar Debris
  • Pulsars in X-Rays
  • Revealing Cooling
  • Enigma Geminga
  • Classical X-Ray Binaries
  • Difficult Search
  • Black Holes
  • The Particle Slingshot SS 433
  • Impenetrable Clouds
  • A Hot Neighborhood
  • Bubbles in the Milky Way
  • The Galactic Center
  • Perhaps a Black Hole?- X-Ray Astronomy Outside Our Galaxy
  • Our Nearest Neighbors
  • Fusion Processes on the Surface
  • A New X-Ray Pulsar
  • Super-Bubbles in the LMC
  • The 30 Doradus Complex
  • The Andromeda Galaxy
  • Starburst Galaxies
  • Active Galaxies
  • An End to the Confusing Variety
  • Multispectral Cooperation
  • Gigantic Energy Beacons
  • Clusters of Galaxies
  • A Deep View Through the Lockman Hole
  • Epilogue
  • List of Acronyms
  • Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

The ROSAT satellite has made a sensitive survey of the sky with its X-ray "eyes" and has revealed new insights about energetic objects in the galaxy and beyond. It is fitting that the results from this important observatory are brought to the public by the same scientists who promoted the project and saw it through to success. The description of the technology is excellent, and the recounting of the effort to recover from a potential disaster in space is riveting. The illustrations are of high quality, and the accompanying text gives the reader a sense of both the excitement and the progress in astrophysics that the X-ray results have brought, and yet the book is disappointing. The text and the illustrations do not complement each other in the way they should to be most helpful to the layperson. As an example, the word description of the complex physical conditions in the Vela supernova remnant is not clarified by the X-ray image presented on a previous page, and the image adjoining the text is of another remnant entirely. Also, the context of the unfamiliar X-ray images could have been better elucidated by greater use of suitably scaled optical images. A more satisfactory approach is that taken in the fine introductory book The New Astronomy, by Nigel Henbest and Michael Marten (1st ed., CH, May'84; 2nd ed., 1996). General readers; lower-division undergraduates. D. E. Hogg; National Radio Astronomy Observatory

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