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The Wide Field Camera (WFC) is a British XUV imaging telescope, rigidly fixed to the main ROSAT X-ray telescope and aligned parallel to it, which extends the wavelength coverage of the ROSAT mission to around 700Å. WFC data from the 6-month all-sky survey phase of the mission, which finished in February 1991, are still being analysed but it is already clear that the WFC has increased the number of known XUV sources by a factor of about 200.
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Harris, A.W., Pankiewicz, G.S. (1992). The XUV Wide Field Camera On-Board ROSAT: Ground System and Data Processing. In: Di Gesù, V., Scarsi, L., Buccheri, R., Crane, P., Maccarone, M.C., Zimmermann, H.U. (eds) Data Analysis in Astronomy IV. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 59. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3388-7_19
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