2004/02/12 by Daniel A. Schwartz, D. A. Schwartz
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Observable #Observatory #Observer (physics) #Physics #Telescope #X-ray telescope #astro-ph
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published as Int.J.Mod.Phys. D13 (2004) 1239-1248 · 8 pages, 4 figures. Talk given at the International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (IWARA2003), Olinda, Brasil, October 2003. To appear in the International Journal of Modern Physics D
arxiv created 2004/02/12 · openalex publication_date 2004/08/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
I review the operational capabilities of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, including some of the spectacular results obtained by the general observer community. A natural theme of this talk is that Chandra is revealing outflows of great quantities of energy that were not previously observable. I highlight the Chandra studies of powerful X-ray jets. This subject is only possible due to the sub-arcsecond resolution of the X-ray telescope.