Science with Simbol-X
Abstract
Simbol-X is a French-Italian mission, with a participation of German laboratories, for X-ray astronomy in the wide 0.5-80 keV band. Taking advantage of emerging technology in mirror manufacturing and spacecraft formation flying, Simbol-X will push grazing incidence imaging up to ~80 keV, providing an improvement of roughly three orders of magnitude in sensitivity and angular resolution compared to all instruments that have operated so far above 10 keV. This will open a new window in X-ray astronomy, allowing breakthrough studies on black hole physics and census and particle acceleration mechanisms. We describe briefly the main scientific goals of the Simbol-X mission, giving a few examples aimed at highlighting key issues of the Simbol-X design.
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@article{arxiv.0801.0409,
title = {Science with Simbol-X},
author = {F. Fiore and M. Arnaud and U. Briel and M. Cappi and A. Comastri and A. Decourchelle and R. Della Ceca and Ph. Ferrando and C. Feruglio and R. Gilli and P. Giommi and A. Goldwurn and P. Grandi and Ph. Laurent and F. Lebrun and G. Malaguti and G. Micela and G. Pareschi and E. Piconcelli and S. Puccetti and J. -P. Roques and G. Tagliaferri and C. Vignali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0409},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Proc. of the workshop "Simbol-X: The hard X-ray universe in focus", Bologna 14-16 May, 2007