Banking X-ray Data for the Future
chandra_610a October 8th, 2015
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Georgia/R.Shelton & NASA/CXC/GSFC/R.Petre; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
These six images represent the potential for new images and discoveries housed in the Chandra Data Archive. To celebrate October as American Archive Month, these images - which include supernova remnants, pulsars, black holes, and clusters of galaxies - are being released. Each image represents data that are available to both the professional scientific community as well as the general public.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/archives/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 610a
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- W44, G34.7-0.4
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Georgia/R.Shelton & NASA/CXC/GSFC/R.Petre; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Release Date
- 2015-10-08
- Lightyears
- 8,300
- Redshift
- 8,300
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/archives/
- Type
- Collage
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, XMM, Spitzer, Spitzer, Spitzer
- Instrument
- ACIS, PN, IRAC, IRAC, IRAC
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Blue, Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- X-ray, X-ray, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- X-ray, X-ray, Near-IR, Near-IR, Mid-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 0.8267, -, 3600, 4500, 8000
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 283.9814406, 1.3525125
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1801.0
- Scale
- 0.000201087, 0.00020108677
- Rotation
- -5.07
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- archives_w44.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/archives/archives_w44.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-10-09T11:08:41-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
