Abstract
Ginga (Astro-C), the X-ray astronomy observatory of Japan, was launched on February 5, 1987. The main features and capabilities of Ginga are described. Some of the results of the observations of galactic and extragalactic sources obtained so far are presented.
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Tanaka, Y. (1988). First Results from Ginga. In: Pallavicini, R. (eds) Hot Thin Plasmas in Astrophysics. NATO ASI Series, vol 249. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3065-0_24
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