The High Resolution Camera (HRC) on the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO)


Welcome to the HRC home page. The HRC is a single photon counting x-ray camera developed by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Cambridge, MA) for NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (formerly the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility or AXAF). Chandra is an x-ray observatory launched in 1999. The intent of this home page is to be a source of detailed information related to the HRC program.

Early HRC Observations

N132D
PSR 0540-69
Cen A
X-ray spectrum of the central region of the galaxy, NGC 5548


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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), HRC Project
SAO is part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA
Comments to author:

Martin V. Zombeck
mvz@cfa.harvard.edu
Last updated: June 25, 2003
URL: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/HRC/HomePage.html

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