Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
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The Active Double Star System AR Lac
ROSAT PSPC picture of the region around the active double star system AR Lac. The observation covers more than two of the double star's orbital periods of two days each. During that interval of time, the strongest outburst of X-rays ever observed from AR Lac was measured.
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ROSAT (Röntgensatellit) 1991
Images from the X-ray sky with the ROSAT telescope · All rights reserved:
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The X-ray images are produced by the SASS/EXSAS software MPE, ESO-MIDAS.
The ROSAT project is managed by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany on behalf of the Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF).
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