X-Ray Astronomy: Stellar Endpoints, Agn, and the Diffuse X-Ray Background, Bologna, Italy, 6-10 September 1999

by N. E. White and N.E. White

Based on a meeting organized jointly by ITESRE/CNR and NASA/GSFC, with support from ASI, this book summarizes past discoveries and considers the science challenges of the missions dominating the first decade of the 21st century. It looks back on a successful decade of results from the ROSAT, ASCA, RXTE and BeppoSAX missions. The two main subjects of the book are x-ray binaries and AGN, and the x-ray background. X-ray binaries provide a natural laboratory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735400431
• ISBN13: 9780735400436
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics
• Length: 1041 Pages