AAS 207th Meeting, 8-12 January 2006
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All findings are embargoed until the time of presentation at the meeting.


Constellation-X Town Hall

Monday, January 9, 2006, 12:30-1:30pm, Salon 1

This one-hour town hall session will update the community on the programmatic and technical advances that have been made recently on the Constellation-X (Con-X) mission. Con-X, with more than 100 times the collecting area of any previous spectroscopic mission operating in the 0.25-40 keV bandpass, will enable high-throughput, high spectral resolution studies of sources ranging from the most luminous accreting supermassive black holes in the Universe to the disks around young stars where planets form. Con-X is one of the two flagship missions within NASA's Beyond Einstein space science program (the other being LISA). This mission was ranked second only to JWST in US National Academy of Sciences McKee-Taylor \& Turner Committee reports. For more information, AAS members are encouraged to visit the Con-X website, constellation.gsfc.nasa.gov. The session coordinator is Harvey Tananbaum, Facility Science Team Chair.


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