The ALEXIS data processing package: An update
The ALEXIS experiment (Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors), is a mini-satellite containing six wide angle EUV/ultrasoft x-ray telescopes. Its purpose is to map out the sky in three narrow (5%) bandpasses around 66, 71, and 93 eV. The 66 and 71 eV bandpasses are centered on intense Fe emission lines which are characteristic of million-degree plasmas such as the one thought to produce the soft x-ray background. The 93 eV bandpass is not near any strong emission lines and is more sensitive to continuum sources. The mission will be launched on the Pegasus Air-Launched Vehicle in early 1993 into a 400-nautical-mile, high-inclination orbit and will be controlled entirely from a small ground station located at Los Alamos. The project is a collaborative effort between Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, and the University of California-Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 10131135
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-93-263; CONF-9211188-1; ON: DE93007374
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Astronomical data analysis software and systems,Boston, MA (United States),2-4 Nov 1992; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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