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AXAF in Context: A Revolution

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

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