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Copernicus X-Ray Observations
Copernicus was the third satellite in the OAO program. It was launched the 21 august of 1972 and operated till 1981. The main instrument was an ultraviolet telescope with a spectrometer to measure interstellar absorption lines in the spectra of stellar objects. However it carried also an X-ray experiment provided by University College of London/MSSL consisted in 4 co-aligned experiments sensitive in the 1-10 keV energy range. This database accesses the raw FITS file containing data obtained from the UCL X-ray Experiment (UCLXE) package on board Copernicus. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Complete Metadata
| bureauCode |
[ "026:00" ] |
|---|---|
| identifier | ivo://nasa.heasarc/xcopraw |
| landingPage | https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/xcopraw.html |
| programCode |
[ "026:000" ] |
| theme |
[ "Astrophysics" ] |
