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Hubert Chen: The High-Energy Universe in Focus: A New Telescope of High-Energy X-Rays 5/24/2007
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Supernovae, black holes, and neutron stars are just a few examples of the many exotic celestial phenomena that produce X-rays. Hubert Chen, Caltech graduate student in physics, presented an Everhart Lecture in which he discussed the significance of high-energy X-rays in observational astronomy and described new technologies for focusing high-energy X-rays, including the High Energy Focusing Telescope (HEFT), which was launched for the first time in May 2005 by Chen and his colleagues.
 

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