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Lynx X-ray Observatory - Wikipedia
Lynx X-ray Observatory
The Lynx X-ray Observatory (Lynx) is a NASA -funded Large Mission Concept Study commissioned as part of the National Academy of Sciences 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. The concept study phase is complete as of August 2019, and the Lynx final report1 has been submitted to the Decadal Survey for prioritization. If launched, Lynx would be the most powerful X-ray astronomy observatory constructed to date, enabling order-of-magnitude advances in capability2 over the current Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton space telescopes.
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Gaskin, Jessica A.; Ozel, Feryal; Vikhlinin, Alexey; Allen, Steven; Bautz, Mark; Brandt, W. Niel; Bregman, Joel; Donahue, Megan; Haiman, Zoltan; Hickox, Ryan; Jeltema, Tesla; Kollmeier, Juna; Kravtsov, Andrey; Lopez, Laura; Madau, Piero; Osten, Rachel; Paerels, Frits; Pooley, David; Ptak, Andrew; Quataert, Eliot; Reynolds, Christopher; Stern, Daniel (23 August 2019). “Concept Study Report” (PDF). Lynx X-ray Observatory. Retrieved 10 January 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. ↩
Gaskin, Jessica A.; Swartz, Douglas A. (29 May 2019). “Lynx X-Ray Observatory: an overview”. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. 5 (2) 021001. Bibcode:2019JATIS…5b1001G. doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.5.2.021001. hdl:10150/634656. ISSN 2329-4124. ↩
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