Banking X-ray Data for the Future
chandra_610d October 8th, 2015
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Waterloo/A.Vantyghem et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Radio: NRAO/VLA
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
- 610d
- Subject Category
- C.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- MS 0735.6+7421
- Credits
- X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Waterloo/A.Vantyghem et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Radio: NRAO/VLA
- Release Date
- 2015-10-08
- Lightyears
- 2,600,000,000.0
- Redshift
- 2,600,000,000.0
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/archives/
- Type
- Collage
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- VLA, Hubble, Chandra
- Instrument
- VLA, ACS, ACIS
- Color Assignment
- Magenta, Yellow, Blue
- Band
- Radio, Optical, X-ray
- Bandpass
- X-band, -, X-ray
- Central Wavelength
- 3.5e7, 850, 0.8267
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 115.426498333, 74.2481045956
- Reference Dimension
- 2400.0, 2400.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3216.25992762, -500.107533525
- Scale
- -1.038231e-05, 1.038231e-05
- Rotation
- -0.15494048234
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.0 revision 213+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- 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_ms0735.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/archives/archives_ms0735.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-10-09T11:09:10-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
