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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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