Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer

Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer

ACIS, the AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer, is an instrument built by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Space Research and the Pennsylvania State University for the Chandra X-ray Observatory (formerly, AXAF)

External links

* [http://acis.mit.edu/acis/ Official ACIS website at MIT]


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