The Development and Scientific Impact of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Abstract

I review the operational capabilities of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, including some of the spectacular results obtained by the general observer community. A natural theme of this talk is that Chandra is revealing outflows of great quantities of energy that were not previously observable. I highlight the Chandra studies of powerful X-ray jets. This subject is only possible due to the sub-arcsecond resolution of the X-ray telescope.

8 pages, 4 figures. Talk given at the International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (IWARA2003), Olinda, Brasil, October 2003. To appear in the International Journal of Modern Physics D