Abstract
The West German astronomy satellite ROSAT comprises two imaging telescopes — an X-ray instrument covering the energy band 0.15–2keV and an EUV instrument (provided by the UK) covering the range 0.02–0.21keV. A primary aim of the mission is to perform a sensitive all-sky survey with both telescopes (two ‘colours’ in the EUV) in the first 6 months. This will be followed by a least one year of pointed observations at specific targets. This paper briefly describes the ROSAT instrumentation and discusses the likely impact of the survey on white dwarf studies.
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Barstow, M.A. (1989). ROSAT — an all-sky X-ray and EUV survey of white dwarfs. In: Wegner, G. (eds) White Dwarfs. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 328. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51031-1_310
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