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Axaf in Context: A Revolution

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The Hot Universe

Part of the book series: International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale ((IAUS,volume 188))

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AXAF has been a long time, 20 years, in coming. This has made AXAF so overfamiliar that it is hard to see how revolutionary it still is. Some even describe AXAF as the end of the line in X-ray technology; a never to be repeated venture to high resolution. This view is wrong. To see why we need to see where X-ray astrophysics is going.

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Elvis, M. (1998). Axaf in Context: A Revolution. In: Koyama, K., Kitamoto, S., Itoh, M. (eds) The Hot Universe. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 188. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4970-9_18

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