The unique power of AXAF (NASA's Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility) - due for launch in late 1988 - make it both the culmination of 20 years of X-ray astronomy, and a new starting point for X-ray astrophysics. This short paper tries to show just how revolutionary AXAF is.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9712117,
title = {AXAF in Context: A Revolution},
author = {Martin Elvis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9712117},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, LaTeX, uses crckapb.sty, psfig To appear in `The Hot Universe', IAU Symposium 188