Abstract
AbstractJET-X is one of the main payload elements in the Soviet Spectrum-X Gamma mission scheduled for launch in 1993. It consists of two Wolter I X-ray telescopes feeding cooled arrays of CCD’s. The combination of good angular resolution and long exposures during the four day orbit of Spectrum-X Gamma, will allow the JET-X telescopes to reach a sensitivity level ten times fainter than that of the Einstein Observatory deep survey. The CCD’s will provide good spectral data for many thousands of brighter sources over an energy band ~0.3–10 keV. The JET-X project is an international collaboration involving groups in the United Kingdom, Italy, West Germany and the Soviet Union together with an input from the Space Science Department at ESTEC. A brief description is given of the design and anticipated performance of JET-X together with illustrations of the anticipated scientific results.
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