Optical and Radio Investigations of Sources of Cosmic X-Rays.
Abstract
The work of 1969 has been based primarily on four trips to observatories, where the observations were made as a guest investigator. The 36-inch and 60-inch CTIO reflectors were used for Photoelectric photometry with a special set of narrow-band filters on some identified X-ray sources and on what the author refers to as their 'analogues'--objects with optical peculiarities that somewhat resemble those of X-ray sources and so may shed light on them. The 50-inch and 16-inch KPNO reflectors were used with instrumentation practically identical to that at CTIO on T CrB, CH Cyg, Cyg X-2, and the field of nebulae within 18 degrees of Sco X-1. A new attack on the problem of the effect of interstellar absorption on the observed X-radiation of Sco X-1, and the inverse problem of the effect of the radiation of Sco X-1 on interstellar matter, has been the object of a 21-cm study of neutral hydrogen in the field of Sco X-1. The 48-inch Palomar Schmidt telescope was used as described in quarterly reports with a special pair of filters that pass lambda 4686.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 31, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0717665
Entities
People
- Hugh M. Johnson
Organizations
- Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space