Next: CCD Operation Up: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) Previous: Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) . ... However it is only now that a number of important X-ray astronomical applications of CCDs have reached critical development stages, so that this is an appropriate time to review the application of space-borne CCD instruments to cosmic X-ray astronomy, and highlight the particular concerns which are being addressed for X-ray instruments, as distinct from optical applications. ...
INNER POLAR RINGS REGULAR LENTICULAR GALAXIES 1 K. Sil'chenko 2 Sternberg Astronomical Institute, 119992 Moscow, Russia; Isaac Newton Institute Chile, Moscow Branch; olga@sai.msu.su Afanasiev Special Astrophysical Observatory, 369167 Nizhnij Arkhyz, Russia; vafan@sao.ru Received 2003 December accepted February 4 ABSTRACT have investigated a sample of galaxies, mostly with circumnuclear dust lanes orthogonal their major axes, chosen from Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images. ...