Chandra X-ray Observatory

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Chandra X-ray Observatory

(CXO, Chandra, AXAF, Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility) (space X-ray telescope)

Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra or CXO, earlier called the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility or AXAF) is an X-ray observing satellite launched 1999 and still operating in 2024. Instruments (the SIM, i.e., Science Instrument Module):

ACIS "Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer".
HRC "High Resolution Camera" with two detectors:
HRC-I "imaging".
HRC-S "spectroscopy", with Transmission gratings (high resolution spectroscopy):
HETGS (or HETG) "High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer" (0.4-10 keV).
LETGS (or LETG) "Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer" (0.09-3 keV).

Chandra projects to carry out lengthy X-ray observation of objects have been labeled X-ray Visionary Projects (XVPs).

(telescope,X-ray,spacecraft,NASA) Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory
http://chandra.harvard.edu/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/chandra-x-ray-observatory/
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/chandra/chandra.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000SPIE.4012....2W/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PNAS..107.7135W/abstract

Prefix	Example
CXC	CXCGC J174512.0-285754
CXO	CXO CDFS J033225.3-274219
CXOGC	CXOGC J174528.6-285605	galactic center
CXOM31	CXOM31 J004253.1+411422	within M31
CXOU	CXOU J132527.6-430023	"unregistered"

Referenced by pages:
ACIS
AEGIS
AXIS
Boötes Field
Canadian Cluster Comparison Project (CCCP)
Cassiopeia A
Chandra Deep Field North (CDFN)
Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS)
Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO)
Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS)
COUP
DEVILS
Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Survey (ECDFS)
F⁴
GOALS
GOODS
grazing incidence optics (GIO)
HEASARC
LABOCA Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Submillimetre Survey (LESS)
Lynx
MIGHTEE
observatory (obs.)
X-ray

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