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ASCA

(Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics, Astro-D)
(1990s Japanese space X-ray telescope)

ASCA (for Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics) was a space X-ray observatory launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in 1993 and observing from 1994 to 2000. It carried four telescopes, operating simultaneously, two with gas imaging spectrometers (termed GIS) and two with solid-state imaging spectrometers (termed SIS) the former with a larger field of view and the latter with a better spectral resolution. Angular resolution was on the order of an arcminute.

Among its surveys was the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey (AGPS).


(telescope,X-ray,spacecraft,JAXA,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Satellite_for_Cosmology_and_Astrophysics
http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994PASJ...46L..37T/abstract
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/asca/asca2.html
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/asca/asca.html
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/observatories/satellite/asca/mission.html
PrefixExample  
AGPSAGPS 273.4-17.8 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/ascagps.html
AXAX J2019+1127 
AXSAXS J161730-505505"serendipitous"

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