The Transient Milky Way: A Perspective for Mirax

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735403325
• ISBN13: 9780735403321
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.0"