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This paper is devoted to a discussion of some results which we have recently obtained from the fourth of the principal instruments on board the Einstein Observatory: M.I.T.’s Focal Plane Crystal Spectrometer (FPCS). We shall begin with a few general remarks about X-ray spectroscopy, followed by a brief description of the FPCS instrument. The results we present here deal primarily with supernova remnants (SNRs): Puppis A and Cas A in the Galaxy, and N132D and N63A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In addition we shall briefly discuss a member of the other class of thermal X-ray source under discussion at present; namely, to report our detection of oxygen emission from the vicinity of M87 in the Virgo Cluster.
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Winkler, P.F. et al. (1980). High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy from the Einstein Observatory. In: Giacconi, R., Setti, G. (eds) X-Ray Astronomy. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9088-3_5
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