The ASTRO-H Mission

By Tadayuki Takahashi, K. Mitsuda, R. Kelley, F. Aharonian, F. Akimoto, S. Allen, N. Anabuki, L. Angelini, K. Arnaud, H. Awaki and 167 more. Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2009

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The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will investigate the physics of the high-energy universe by performing high-resolution, high-throughput spectroscopy with moderate angular resolution. ASTRO-H covers very wide energy range from 0.3 keV to 600 keV. ASTRO-H allows a combination of wide band X-ray spectroscopy (5-80 keV) provided by multilayer coating, focusing hard X-ray mirrors and hard X-ray imaging detectors, and high energy-resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy (0.3-12 keV) provided by thin-foil X-ray optics and a micro-calorimeter array. The mission will also carry an X-ray CCD camera as a focal plane detector for a soft X-ray telescope (0.4-12 keV) and a non-focusing soft gamma-ray detector (40-600 keV) . The micro-calorimeter system is developed by an international collaboration led by ISAS/JAXA and NASA. The simultaneous broad bandpass, coupled with high spectral resolution of ΔE ~7 eV provided by the micro-calorimeter will enable a wide variety of important science themes to be pursued.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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1. A. Mantz
2. S. Allen
3. A. V. D. Linden
4. D. Applegate
5. P. Kelly
6. David Rapetti
7. R. Morris
8. N. Werner

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7. S. Allen
8. D. Applegate

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• Cosmology and astrophysics from relaxed galaxy clusters - II. Cosmological constraints (2014, background): “In the near term, observations with the upcoming ASTRO-H mission (Takahashi et al. 2010) should provide critical insights into the degree of turbulent and bulk gas motions in nearby clusters.”
• X-ray spectroscopy of galaxy clusters: studying astrophysical processes in the largest celestial laboratories (2009, background): “While Astro-H (Takahashi et al. 2009) is already being built, the IXO mission has not yet been fully approved and is still in the first phase of technical studies.”