Discovering the Treasures in Chandra's Archives
chandra_640c October 14th, 2016
Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO
The Chandra Data Archive is a sophisticated digital system that ultimately contains all of the data obtained by the telescope, creating an invaluable resource for both the scientific community and the public. These six new images showcase data from Chandra's archive to help celebrate American Archive Month. These images also include data from telescopes covering other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as visible and infrared light, and they represent just a small fraction of the treasures that reside in Chandra's unique X-ray archive.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/archives/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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Distance
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 640c
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.9.1
- Subject Name
- PSR J1509-5850
- Credits
- NASA/CXC/SAO
- Release Date
- 2016-10-14
- Lightyears
- 12,400
- Redshift
- 12,400
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/archives/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, DSS, DSS, ATCA
- Instrument
- ACIS, DSS2R, DSS2IR, -
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Cyan, Orange, Magenta
- Band
- X-ray, Optical, Optical, Radio
- Bandpass
- X-ray, R-band, IR-band, -
- Central Wavelength
- 0.8267, 660, 798, 6e7
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 227.3544044, -58.8050082
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1801.0
- Scale
- 0.000166956, 0.00016695638
- Rotation
- 0.21
- 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_psrj1509.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/archives/archives_psrj1509.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2016-10-19T11:30:23-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
