Space Agency's ESTEC facility. BeppoSAX was named in honour of the Italian physicist Giuseppe "Beppo" Occhialini. SAX stands for "Satellite per Astronomia...
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Giuseppe Occhialini (redirect from Beppo Occhialini)
after him. The satellite SAX, the first Italian satellite for the study of gamma rays, was renamed BeppoSAX from his nickname "Beppo", which is a diminutive...
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initial burst. The breakthrough came in February 1997 when the satellite BeppoSAX detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB 970228) and when the X-ray camera was pointed...
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Trajectory Details (BeppoSAX)". NASA. Archived from the original on 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2008-02-27. "NASA – NSSDC – Spacecraft – Details (BeppoSAX)". NASA. Archived...
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accreting millisecond pulsar discovered in 1998 by the Italian-Dutch BeppoSAX satellite, SAX J1808.4−3658 revealed X-ray pulsations at the 401 Hz neutron star...
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Berger 2005 Mirabal 2006 Greiner 2009 Reddy 2009 Antonelli LA, Fiore F. "BeppoSAX follow-up observations of the region of the Gamma-ray burst GRB 970402"...
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Shoemaker to shut down to prevent damage and to saturate instruments on BeppoSAX, WIND and RXTE. On May 29, 2008, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope discovered...
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GRB 980425 was first detected by the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor onboard BeppoSAX on 25 April 1998 at 21:49 UTC. The burst lasted approximately 30 seconds...
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identified. Success for the BeppoSAX team came in February 1997, less than one year after it had been launched. A BeppoSAX WFC detected a gamma-ray burst...
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observatories were focusing on the event, by then designated "GRB 990123". The BeppoSAX satellite had also seen the burst, and pinned down its location to within...
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such as black hole mergers. In February 1997, Dutch-Italian satellite BeppoSAX was able to trace GRB 970508 to a faint galaxy roughly 6 billion light...
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neutron star in supernova remnant IC 443. Observations by Chandra and BeppoSAX suggest that gamma-ray bursts occur in star-forming regions. Chandra data...
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Argentina, based in Buenos Aires, is established. On 30 April 1996, the BeppoSAX scientific satellite, operated by the firm, was launched. In the following...
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(2002). "Nuclear and global X-ray properties of LINER galaxies: Chandra and BeppoSAX results for Sombrero and NGC 4736". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 383 (1):...
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2000 as a result of the failure of one of its stabilizing gyroscopes. BeppoSAX was launched in 1996 and deorbited in 2003. It predominantly studied X-rays...
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detected by BeppoSAX, an Italian–Dutch satellite originally designed to study X-rays. On Thursday May 8, 1997, at 21:42 UTC, BeppoSAX's Gamma Ray Burst...
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trademark term for a type of AC armoured electrical cable BeppoSAX catalog, also called SAX and 1SAX Brix (°Bx), measurement unit of the dissolved sugar-to-water...
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satellite mission was BeppoSAX, developed in collaboration with the Netherlands and launched in 1996. Named after Giuseppe “Beppo” Occhialini, an important...
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Burst Monitor (GRBM) and one of the Wide Field Cameras (WFCs) on board BeppoSAX, an Italian–Dutch satellite originally designed to study X-rays. The burst...
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(1990) BBXRT HUT Astro-2 (HUT) (1995) Astron (1983–1991) ANS (1974–1976) BeppoSAX (1996–2003) CHIPSat (2003–2008) Compton (CGRO) (1991–2000) CoRoT (2006–2013)...
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bottom, the figure shows an intermediate-duration burst observed with BeppoSAX/WFC from M15 X-2; a mixed H/He burst observed with INTEGRAL/JEM-X from...
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NASA satellite mission. He was also PI of two experiments on board the BeppoSAX satellite launched on 30 April 1996 from Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA):...
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Telescope XRT (1985) Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) – ASM (1995–2012) BeppoSAX – Wide Field Camera (1996–2002) INTEGRAL – IBIS and SPI (2002–present)...
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and internationally publicized the scientific goals of the Italian-Dutch BeppoSAX mission before its launch. In recognition of his contributions to astrophysics...
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L.; In 't Zand, J. J. M.; Frontera, F.; Dal Fiume, D.; et al. (1998). "BeppoSAX follow-up search for the X-ray afterglow of GRB970111". Astronomy and Astrophysics...
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longest burst that had ever been detected by X-ray astronomy satellite BeppoSAX up to that point. GRB 030323 lasted 26 seconds and was detected on 23 March...
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and the MOS cameras in the 0.4–10 keV band. They also used an archival BeppoSAX 1–50 keV observation of to investigate the possible variations of the quasar...
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(1990) BBXRT HUT Astro-2 (HUT) (1995) Astron (1983–1991) ANS (1974–1976) BeppoSAX (1996–2003) CHIPSat (2003–2008) Compton (CGRO) (1991–2000) CoRoT (2006–2013)...
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follow up observations of events detected by several spacecraft (BATSE, BeppoSAX, RossiXTE, IPN, Hete-2, Swift, and Fermi). Results in the GRB field are...
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Minor) SaWe — Sanduleak-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) SAX — Satellite per Astronomia a raggi X (BeppoSAX satellite) SC — Slough catalogue ("Observations of...
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