Einstein Probe
(EP)
(Chinese X-ray space observatory)
The Einstein Probe (EP) is a Chinese X-ray space observatory
launched in January 2024, with first light announced in April 2024.
Instruments:
The former has a 60°×60° FOV, to sense X-ray flashes,
and the latter, 1°×1°.
Note that other astronomy-related observatory-concepts, space and ground,
have been named for Einstein, among them another X-ray space observatory:
the c1980 NASA satellite HEAO-2 also went by the name
Einstein Observatory. Also, a current concept for a future ground
gravitational-wave detector is named the Einstein Telescope.
(telescope,spacecraft,Chinese,X-ray)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_Probe
http://english.nao.cas.cn/Research2015/rp2015/201701/t20170120_173611.html
https://www.nssdc.ac.cn/nssdc_en/html/task/einstein.html
https://astro.tsinghua.edu.cn/__local/F/13/78/36E0634A93C786617483052AE97_C263499A_782C51.pdf
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Einstein_Probe_factsheet
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/einstein-probe.htm
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022hxga.book...86Y/abstract
https://www.mpe.mpg.de/8007188/news20240427
| WaveL | Freq | Photon
Energy | | |
| 155pm | 2.0EHz | 8keV | begin | Einstein Probe |
| 2.5nm | 121PHz | .5keV | end | Einstein Probe |
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Referenced by pages:
Einstein Telescope (ET)
HEAO-2
Satech-01
X-ray
Index