The Transient Milky Way A Perspective for MIRAX : São José Dos Campos, Brazil, 7-9 December 2005 - AIP Conference Proceedings

Workshop "The Transient Milky Way: A Perspective for MIRAX", Flavio D'Amico, João Braga, Richard E. Rothschild, MIRAX (Artificial satellite)

2006

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Publisher's Synopsis

The contributions to this conference discuss both scientific and technical aspects of the MIRAX (Monitor e Imageador de RAios-X) x-ray astronomy project, an international satellite mission to be launched in 2011. The main topic was the importance of observing x-ray transient sources and explosive phenomena in the central Galactic plane with a wide-field imaging instrument over long and continuous periods of time.

Book information

ISBN:	9780735403321
Publisher:	American Institute of Physics
Imprint:	American Institute of Physics
Pub date:	01 Jun 2006
Edition:	2006
DEWEY:	523.113
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	144
Weight:	277g
Height:	234mm
Width:	162mm
Spine width:	10mm