SIMBOL-X : a new generation hard X-ray telescope
Abstract
SIMBOL-X is a hard X-ray mission, operating in the 0.5-70 keV range, which is proposed by a consortium of European laboratories for a launch around 2010. Relying on two spacecraft in a formation flying configuration, SIMBOL-X uses a 30 m focal length X-ray mirror to achieve an unprecedented angular resolution (30 arcsec HEW) and sensitivity (100 times better than INTEGRAL below 50 keV) in the hard X-ray range. SIMBOL-X will allow to elucidate fundamental questions in high energy astrophysics, such as the physics of accretion onto Black Holes, of acceleration in quasar jets and in supernovae remnants, or the nature of the hard X-ray diffuse emission. The scientific objectives and the baseline concepts of the mission and hardware design are presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0309424,
title = {SIMBOL-X : a new generation hard X-ray telescope},
author = {P. Ferrando and M. Arnaud and B. Cordier and A. Goldwurm and O. Limousin and J. Paul and J. L. Sauvageot and P. O. Petrucci and M. Mouchet and G. Bignami and O. Citterio and S. Campana and G. Pareschi and G. Tagliaferri and U. Briel and G. Hasinger and L. Strueder and P. Lechner and E. Kendziorra and M. Turner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0309424},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 16 fig., Proc. SPIE conf. 5168, San Diego, Aug. 2003