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COS-B

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | 405 words | Copyright

COS-B A European gamma-ray satellite, launched in 1975August and operated until 1982. It mapped the gamma-ray sky in the energy range 70–5000 MeV (2.5 × 10−7 to 2 × 10−5 nm) with a spark-chamber detector. It also detected several individual sources, including the Vela and Crab Pulsars and the quasar 3C 273. http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=34

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