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Antonella Fruscione

Center for Astrophysics

Astrophysicist

Antonella Fruscione

afruscione@cfa.harvard.edu

About

I am an Astrophysicist in the High Energy Astrophysics Division and a member of the Chandra X-Ray Center (CXC). I mainly study the X-ray and multiwavelength emission from galaxies and quasars. My work includes a substantial effort aimed both at teaching and disseminating the Chandra data analysis system to the worldwide astronomical community and at supporting all astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Telescopes and Instruments

Einstein Observatory

NASA’s Einstein Observatory was the first X-ray space telescope designed to produce images of astronomical X-ray sources. The spacecraft operated from 1978 through 1981, providing important observations of pulsars, supernova remnants, supermassive black holes in other galaxies, and many more, paving the way for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The X-ray telescope was designed by researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

Chandra

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA’s flagship X-ray observatory, providing essential data on everything from the environment surrounding newborn stars to the emissions from hot plasma inside galaxy clusters. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), as part of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, manages Chandra’s day-to-day operations, providing spacecraft control, observation planning, and data processing for astronomers. Chandra is one of NASA’s orbiting Great Observatories, along with the Hubble.

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