Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session C04: Twenty Years of the Chandra X-ray Observatory
1:30 PM–3:18 PM,
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Plaza F
Sponsoring
Unit:
DAP
Chair: Daniel Castro, Harvard-Smithsonian
Abstract: C04.00001 : Chandra's Impact on Astrophysics and Active Galaxy Research*
1:30 PM–2:06 PM
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Abstract
Presenter:
Belinda J Wilkes
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Author:
Belinda J Wilkes
(Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
Shuttle Columbia. Now celebrating its 20th year of operations, Chandra
continues to be an indispensable tool for expanding the frontiers of knowledge
throughout astrophysics. Chandra's unique, sub-arcsecond, spatial resolution
and high precision spectroscopy have led to major advances in our understanding
of celestial sources from exo-planetary atmospheres to clusters of galaxies,
cosmology to the merging neutron stars found via gravitational waves.
I will provide a review of Chandra and its broad scientific impact (>7300
science papers to date), before concentrating on Chandra's impact on our
knowledge and understanding of active galaxies, and the super-massive black holes located in
their cores.
*This work is supported by NASA Contract NAS8-03060 (Chandra X-ray Center) awarded to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for the operation and science support of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
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