HaloSat targets to study the hot Galactic halo

DOI

HaloSat is a small satellite (CubeSat) designed to map soft X-ray oxygen line emission across the sky in order to constrain the mass and spatial distribution of hot gas in the Milky Way. The goal of HaloSat is to help determine if hot gas gravitationally bound to individual galaxies makes a significant contribution to the cosmological baryon budget. HaloSat was deployed from the International Space Station in 2018 July and began routine science operations in 2018 October. We describe the goals and design of the mission, the on-orbit performance of the science instrument, and initial observations.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/884/162/table5 (HaloSat targets)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.18840162
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/162
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/884/162
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/884/162
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/884/162
Provenance
Creator Kaaret P.; Zajczyk A.; LaRocca D.M.; Ringuette R.; Bluem J.; Fuelberth W.,Gulick H.; Jahoda K.; Johnson T.E.; Kirchner D.L.; Koutroumpa D.,Kuntz K.D.; McCurdy R.; Miles D.M.; Robison W.T.; Silich E.M.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2021
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics