The ASTRO-H Mission
Abstract
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 Delta E ~7 eV provided by the micro-calorimeter will enable a wide variety of important science themes to be pursued.
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@article{arxiv.1010.4972,
title = {The ASTRO-H Mission},
author = {Tadayuki Takahashi and Kazuhisa Mitsuda and Richard Kelley and Felix Aharonian and Fumie Akimoto and Steve Allen and Naohisa Anabuki and Lorella Angelini and Keith Arnaud and Hisamitsu Awaki and Aya Bamba and Nobutaka Bando and Mark Bautz and Roger Blandford and Kevin Boyce and Greg Brown and Maria Chernyakova and Paolo Coppi and Elisa Costantini and Jean Cottam and John Crow and Jelle de Plaa and Cor de Vries and Jan-Willem den Herder and Michael DiPirro and Chris Done and Tadayasu Dotani and Ken Ebisawa and Teruaki Enoto and Yuichiro Ezoe and Andrew Fabian and Ryuichi Fujimoto and Yasushi Fukazawa and Stefan Funk and Akihiro Furuzawa and Massimiliano Galeazzi and Poshak Gandhi and Keith Gendreau and Kirk Gilmore and Yoshito Haba and Kenji Hamaguchi and Isamu Hatsukade and Kiyoshi Hayashida and Junko Hiraga and Kazuyuki Hirose and Ann Hornschemeier and John Hughes and Una Hwang and Ryo Iizuka and Kazunori Ishibashi and Manabu Ishida and Kosei Ishimura and Yoshitaka Ishisaki and Naoki Isobe and Masayuki Ito and Naoko Iwata and Jelle Kaastra and Timothy Kallman and Tuneyoshi Kamae and Hideaki Katagiri and Jun Kataoka and Satoru Katsuda and Madoka Kawaharada and Nobuyuki Kawai and Shigeo Kawasaki and Dmitry Khangaluyan and Caroline Kilbourne and Kenzo Kinugasa and Shunji Kitamoto and Tetsu Kitayama and Takayoshi Kohmura and Motohide Kokubun and Tatsuro Kosaka and Taro Kotani and Katsuji Koyama and Aya Kubota and Hideyo Kunieda and Philippe Laurent and Francois Lebrun and Olivier Limousin and Michael Loewenstein and Knox Long and Grzegorz Madejski and Yoshitomo Maeda and Kazuo Makishima and Maxim Markevitch and Hironori Matsumoto and Kyoko Matsushita and Dan McCammon and Jon Miller and Shin Mineshige and Kenji Minesugi and Takuya Miyazawa and Tsunefumi Mizuno and Koji Mori and Hideyuki Mori and Koji Mukai and Hiroshi Murakami and Toshio Murakami and Richard Mushotzky and Yujin Nakagawa and Takao Nakagawa and Hiroshi Nakajima and Takeshi Nakamori and Kazuhiro Nakazawa and Yoshiharu Namba and Masaharu Nomachi and Steve O' Dell and Hiroyuki Ogawa and Mina Ogawa and Keiji Ogi and Takaya Ohashi and Masanori Ohno and Masayuki Ohta and Takashi Okajima and Naomi Ota and Masanobu Ozaki and Frits Paerels and Stéphane Paltani and Arvind Parmer and Robert Petre and Martin Pohl and Scott Porter and Brian Ramsey and Christopher Reynolds and Shin-ichiro Sakai and Rita Sambruna and Goro Sato and Yoichi Sato and Peter Serlemitsos and Maki Shida and Takanobu Shimada and Keisuke Shinozaki and Peter Shirron and Randall Smith and Gary Sneiderman and Yang Soong and Lukasz Stawarz and Hiroyuki Sugita and Andrew Szymkowiak and Hiroyasu Tajima and Hiromitsu Takahashi and Yoh Takei and Toru Tamagawa and Takayuki Tamura and Keisuke Tamura and Takaaki Tanaka and Yasuo Tanaka and Yasuyuki Tanaka and Makoto Tashiro and Yuzuru Tawara and Yukikatsu Terada and Yuichi Terashima and Francesco Tombesi and Hiroshi Tomida and Miyako Tozuka and Yoko Tsuboi and Masahiro Tsujimoto and Hiroshi Tsunemi and Takeshi Tsuru and Hiroyuki Uchida and Yasunobu Uchiyama and Hideki Uchiyama and Yoshihiro Ueda and Shinichiro Uno and Meg Urry and Shin Watanabe and Nicholas White and Takahiro Yamada and Hiroya Yamaguchi and Kazutaka Yamaoka and Noriko Yamasaki and Makoto Yamauchi and Shigeo Yamauchi and Yoichi Yatsu and Daisuke Yonetoku and Atsumasa Yoshida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.4972},
year = {2015}
}
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18 pages, 12 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray"