What does RGPS stand for?

ROSAT (Roentgen Satellite) Galactic Plane Survey

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The team is using observations from a variety of sources, such as archival measurements from the ROSAT X-ray satellite, and more recent measurements from ground-based telescopes.

Orange stars may have planets having life

Without warning one day, the ROSAT satellite turned, seemingly inexplicably, toward the sun.

THE TAKING OF NASA'S SECRETS

The researchers' work built on an X-ray spectrum survey of the entire sky taken by the orbiting telescope ROSAT in the early 1990s.

Galaxy clusters slide to the south: mysterious flow could call ...

Because young stars emit intense X rays, they stand out prominently in the ROSAT survey.

Captured on Camera: Are They Planets?

satellite ROSAT and spectra taken by the Japanese satellite ASCA indicate the existence of a few relatively distant galaxy clusters, but the data aren't good enough to determine whether the clusters are as massive and as hot as the ones that Evrard's team predicts.

Cosmos in a Computer

Bernd Aschenbach of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, discovered the remnant while examining X-ray images taken by the satellite ROSAT.

Young, nearby supernova remnant shows up

Walter of the State University of New York at Stony Brook suspected he had come upon something different when he spotted a steady, intense source of low-energy X rays in images by the ROSAT satellite.

Hubble sizes up a lone neutron star

Lying near one of the spiral arms in the galaxy NGC 6946, the point glows brightly in visible light and even more brilliantly in X rays, according to ground-based observations by Blair's team and data from the German-British satellite ROSAT.

Hubble images capture colliding supernovas