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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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about 1500
seconds making it one of the
longest X-ray
flash observed by
BeppoSAX to date. It lies at a
distance less than z=3.5.
Observations of XRF 011030...
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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...
