An Overview of the Performance and Scientific Results from the Chandra X‐Ray Observatory

MC Weisskopf, B Brinkman, C Canizares… - Publications of the …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
… for the optical bench and for other Chandra structures. The Telescope System also provides
mounts and mechanisms for Chandra's two objective transmission gratings (OTGs) (§ 2.6.2). …

Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO): overview

MC Weisskopf, HD Tananbaum… - X-ray optics …, 2000 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… Finally, after five firings of Chandra's own Integral Propulsion System--the last of which took
… Finally, and despite an initial surprise and setback due to the discovery that the Chandra x-…

Innovations in the analysis of Chandra-ACIS observations

PS Broos, LK Townsley, ED Feigelson… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Chandra X-ray Observatory and as Chandra General Observers, we have developed a wide
variety of data analysis methods that we believe are useful to the Chandra … many Chandra

The chandra source catalog

IN Evans, FA Primini, KJ Glotfelty… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
… Launched in 1999, Chandra continues to provide a unique … Chandra includes two instruments
that record images of the X… serendipitous sources included in Chandra observations is a …

The Chandra Deep Field-South: Optical Spectroscopy. I.

GP Szokoly, J Bergeron, G Hasinger… - The Astrophysical …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of our spectroscopic follow-up program of the X-ray sources detected
in the 942 ks exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDFS). A total of 288 possible …

[BOOK][B] Chandra: a biography of S. Chandrasekhar

KC Wali - 1991 - books.google.com
… Sarma and I did not discuss at length Chandra's scientific work or any details of his life. We
knew, however, that Chandra had settled permanently in the United States. And we were well …

The Chandra COSMOS Legacy survey: overview and point source catalog

F Civano, S Marchesi, A Comastri… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
… We summarize the main properties of the new Chandra COSMOS-Legacy observations in
… The number of background counts is consistent with the expectation for Chandra given the …

The extended Chandra deep field-south survey: Chandra point-source catalogs

BD Lehmer, WN Brandt, DM Alexander… - The Astrophysical …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
… In addition to our main Chandra catalog, we constructed a supplementary source catalog …
We present basic number-count results for our main Chandra catalog and find good agreement …

Chandra Deep Field South: The 1 Ms Catalog

R Giacconi, A Zirm, JX Wang, P Rosati… - The Astrophysical …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
… transform technique developed specifically for Chandra observations. The detection threshold
… /Chandra offsets are small, $100. Coordinate cross-correlation finds 85% of the Chandra

A million second Chandra view of Cassiopeia A

U Hwang, JM Laming, C Badenes… - The Astrophysical …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a million second observation of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A with the
Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The bipolar structure of the Si-rich ejecta (northeast jet and …