The Astronomical Roentgen Telescope X-ray Concentrator ( ART-XC ) is an X-ray telescope with a grazing incidence mirror that is capable of capturing high energy X-ray photons within the 5-30 keV energy range. This telescope is one of the two X-ray telescopes on the Spektr-RG (SRG) mission. The other telescope that SRG carries is eROSITA . The observatory was launched on 13 July 2019 via a Proton rocket from the Russian launch site Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
6-602: ART-XC was developed by the Space Research Institute (IKI) and the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) . The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has developed and fabricated flight models of the X-ray mirror systems. The ART-XC telescope consists of 7 identical mirror modules each made with 28 nickel-cobalt grazing-incidence mirrors. The mirror design
12-439: Is Wolter -I and is coated with iridium. Each module also has its own cadmium-tellurium double-sided strip detector. The typical on-axis half-power diameter of ART-XC is 27 to 34 arcsec, while the effective area of each module is 65 cm (both were estimated at 8 keV). The field of view for each module is about 36′ in diameter. ART-XC will survey the entire sky every six months, and the planned all-sky survey will be completed in
18-604: The Russian Academy of Sciences , SRI RAS , Russian abbreviation : ИКИ РАН, IKI RAN ) is the leading organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences on space exploration to benefit fundamental science . It was formerly known as the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( Russian abbr. : ИКИ АН СССР, IKI AN SSSR ). It is usually known by the shorter name Space Research Institute and especially by
24-611: The first four years of the mission. Roscosmos published the first light image of ART-XC, which was taken on July 30, 2019. The image shows the source Centaurus X-3 imaged with the 7 telescopes, as well as the light curve of the pulsar folded at its pulse period of 4.8s. This article about a specific observatory, telescope or astronomical instrument is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Russian Space Research Institute The Russian Space Research Institute ( Russian : Институт космических исследований Российской академии наук , Space Research Institute of
30-509: The initialism IKI . The institute is located in Moscow with a staff of 289 scientists . It conducts scientific research in the fields of astrophysics , planetary science , solar physics , Sun - Earth relations, cosmic plasma , and geophysics . IKI also develops and tests space technologies in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Federal Space Agency . It
36-560: Was founded on May 15, 1965, by the Soviet Union's Council of Ministers decree #392-147. Initially, the institute formed its staff by drawing scientists from other research organizations. With time, it grew to two thousand employees, including those in a few branches located elsewhere in the country. In 1992, a year after the dissolution of the Soviet Union it was rechristened with its present name. The institute engages in research in
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