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EXOSAT Database

An X-ray database containing a complete archive of reduced data and scientific data products from the EXOSAT mission. It was made available by ESA in 1990. The design of this database has since been adopted world-wide for subsequent archiving of X-ray astronomy (and related optical and radio) data.

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