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Astrophysics Science Division
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HaloSat (HaloSat)

HaloSat was designed to survey the distribution of hot gas in the Milky Way and constrain the mass and geometry of the Galactic halo.

Launch Date

May 2018

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HaloSat was designed to survey the distribution of hot gas in the Milky Way and constrain the mass and geometry of the Galactic halo.

Related Publications

2019. "HaloSat: A CubeSat to Study the Hot Galactic Halo.", The Astrophysical Journal, 884 (2): 162 [10.3847/1538-4357/ab4193] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Design and construction of the x-ray instrumentation onboard the HaloSat CubeSat.", Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 6 (01): 1 [10.1117/1.jatis.6.1.014003] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Global X-Ray Properties of the Vela and Puppis A Supernova Remnants.", The Astronomical Journal, 160 (1): 20 [10.3847/1538-3881/ab93d3] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "A disk-dominated and clumpy circumgalactic medium of the Milky Way seen in X-ray emission.", Nature Astronomy, 4 (11): 1072-1077 [10.1038/s41550-020-01215-w] [Journal Article/Letter]