ORIGIN: Metal Creation and Evolution from the Cosmic Dawn
Abstract
ORIGIN is a proposal for the M3 mission call of ESA aimed at the study of metal creation from the epoch of cosmic dawn. Using high-spectral resolution in the soft X-ray band, ORIGIN will be able to identify the physical conditions of all abundant elements between C and Ni to red-shifts of z=10, and beyond. The mission will answer questions such as: When were the first metals created? How does the cosmic metal content evolve? Where do most of the metals reside in the Universe? What is the role of metals in structure formation and evolution? To reach out to the early Universe ORIGIN will use Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) to study their local environments in their host galaxies. This requires the capability to slew the satellite in less than a minute to the GRB location. By studying the chemical composition and properties of clusters of galaxies we can extend the range of exploration to lower redshifts (z ~ 0.2). For this task we need a high-resolution spectral imaging instrument with a large field of view. Using the same instrument, we can also study the so far only partially detected baryons in the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM). The less dense part of the WHIM will be studied using absorption lines at low redshift in the spectra for GRBs.
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@article{arxiv.1104.2048,
title = {ORIGIN: Metal Creation and Evolution from the Cosmic Dawn},
author = {J. W. den Herder and L. Piro and T. Ohashi and C. Kouveliotou and D. H. Hartmann and J. S. Kaastra and L. Amati and M. I. Andersen and M. Arnaud and J-L. Attéia and S. Bandler and M. Barbera and X. Barcons and S. Barthelmy and S. Basa and S. Basso and M. Boer and E. Branchini and G. Branduardi-Raymont and S. Borgani and A. Boyarsky and G. Brunetti and C. Budtz-Jorgensen and D. Burrows and N. Butler and S. Campana and E. Caroli and M. Ceballos and F. Christensen and E. Churazov and A. Comastri and L. Colasanti and R. Cole and R. Content and A. Corsi and E. Costantini and P. Conconi and G. Cusumano and J. de Plaa and A. De Rosa and M. Del Santo and S. Di Cosimo and M. De Pasquale and R. Doriese and S. Ettori and P. Evans and Y. Ezoe and L. Ferrari and H. Finger and T. Figueroa-Feliciano and P. Friedrich and R. Fujimoto and A. Furuzawa and J. Fynbo and F. Gatti and M. Galeazzi and N. Gehrels and B. Gendre and G. Ghirlanda and G. Ghisellini and M. Gilfanov and P. Giommi and M. Girardi and J. Grindlay and M. Cocchi and O. Godet and M. Guedel and F. Haardt and R. den Hartog and I. Hepburn and W. Hermsen and J. Hjorth and H. Hoekstra and A. Holland and A. Hornstrup and A. van der Horst and A. Hoshino and J. in 't Zand and K. Irwin and Y. Ishisaki and P. Jonker and T. Kitayama and H. Kawahara and N. Kawai and R. Kelley and C. Kilbourne and P. de Korte and A. Kusenko and I. Kuvvetli and M. Labanti and C. Macculi and R. Maiolino and M. Mas Hesse and K. Matsushita and P. Mazzotta and D. McCammon and M. Méndez and R. Mignani and T. Mineo and K. Mitsuda and R. Mushotzky and S. Molendi and L. Moscardini and L. Natalucci and F. Nicastro and P. O'Brien and J. Osborne and F. Paerels and M. Page and S. Paltani and K. Pedersen and E. Perinati and T. Ponman and E. Pointecouteau and P. Predehl and S. Porter and A. Rasmussen and G. Rauw and H. Röttgering and M. Roncarelli and P. Rosati and E. Quadrini and O. Ruchayskiy and R. Salvaterra and S. Sasaki and K. Sato and S. Savaglio and J. Schaye and S. Sciortino and M. Shaposhnikov and R. Sharples and K. Shinozaki and D. Spiga and R. Sunyaev and Y. Suto and Y. Takei and N. Tanvir and M. Tashiro and T. Tamura and Y. Tawara and E. Troja and M. Tsujimoto and T. Tsuru and P. Ubertini and J. Ullom and E. Ursino and F. Verbunt and F. van de Voort and M. Viel and S. Wachter and D. Watson and M. Weisskopf and N. Werner and N. White and R. Willingale and R. Wijers and N. Yamasaki and K. Yoshikawa and S. Zane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.2048},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
34 pages, 13 figures. ESA Cosmic Vision medium-class mission (M3) proposal. Accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy. Including minor corrections in the author list