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Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium: Panel Reports (2001)
Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (CPSMA)
Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA)

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. "1 Report of the Panel on High-Energy Astrophysics from Space." Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium: Panel Reports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2001.

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Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium: Panel Reports

QPOs

—quasi-periodic oscillations, x-ray pulses from compact objects

ROSAT

—Roentgen Satellite (German-U.S.-U.K. collaboration)

RXTE

—Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer

SAO

—Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

SIM

—Space Interferometry Mission

STScI

—Space Telescope Science Institute

ULDB

—ultralong-duration balloon

VERITAS

—Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System

VLBI

—very long baseline interferometry

XMM-Newton

—X-ray Multi-Mirror Observatory, a European collaboration x-ray space mission

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