The ASTRO-H X-ray Astronomy Satellite
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2015-06-23 v1
Abstract
The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), with a planned launch in 2015. The ASTRO-H mission is equipped with a suite of sensitive instruments with the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 3 keV and a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft X-rays to gamma-rays. The simultaneous broad band pass, coupled with the high spectral resolution of Delta E < 7 eV of the micro-calorimeter, will enable a wide variety of important science themes to be pursued. ASTRO-H is expected to provide breakthrough results in scientific areas as diverse as the large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution, the behavior of matter in the gravitational strong field regime, the physical conditions in sites of cosmic-ray acceleration, and the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters at different redshifts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.1356,
title = {The ASTRO-H X-ray Astronomy Satellite},
author = {Tadayuki Takahashi and Kazuhisa Mitsuda and Richard Kelley and Felix Aharonian and Hiroki Akamatsu and Fumie Akimoto and Steve Allen and Naohisa Anabuki and Lorella Angelini and Keith Arnaud and Makoto Asai and Marc Audard and Hisamitsu Awaki and Philipp Azzarello and Chris Baluta and Aya Bamba and Nobutaka Bando and Marshall Bautz and Thomas Bialas and Roger Blandford and Kevin Boyce and Laura Brenneman and Greg Brown and Edward Cackett and Edgar Canavan and Maria Chernyakova and Meng Chiao and Paolo Coppi and Elisa Costantini and Jelle de Plaa and Jan-Willem den Herder and Michael DiPirro and Chris Done and Tadayasu Dotani and John Doty and Ken Ebisawa and Megan Eckart and Teruaki Enoto and Yuichiro Ezoe and Andrew Fabian and Carlo Ferrigno and Adam Foster and Ryuichi Fujimoto and Yasushi Fukazawa and Stefan Funk and Akihiro Furuzawa and Massimiliano Galeazzi and Luigi Gallo and Poshak Gandhi and Kirk Gilmore and Matteo Guainazzi and Daniel Haas and Yoshito Haba and Kenji Hamaguchi and Atsushi Harayama and Isamu Hatsukade and Takayuki Hayashi and Katsuhiro Hayashi and Kiyoshi Hayashida and Junko Hiraga and Kazuyuki Hirose and Ann Hornschemeier and Akio Hoshino and John Hughes and Una Hwang and Ryo Iizuka and Yoshiyuki Inoue and Kazunori Ishibashi and Manabu Ishida and Kumi Ishikawa and Kosei Ishimura and Yoshitaka Ishisaki and Masayuki Ito and Naoko Iwata and Naoko Iyomoto and Chris Jewell and Jelle Kaastra and Timothy Kallman and Tuneyoshi Kamae and Jun Kataoka and Satoru Katsuda and Junichiro Katsuta and Madoka Kawaharada and Nobuyuki Kawai and Taro Kawano and Shigeo Kawasaki and Dmitry Khangulyan and Caroline Kilbourne and Mark Kimball and Masashi Kimura and Shunji Kitamoto and Tetsu Kitayama and Takayoshi Kohmura and Motohide Kokubun and Saori Konami and Tatsuro Kosaka and Alex Koujelev and Katsuji Koyama and Hans Krimm and Aya Kubota and Hideyo Kunieda and Stephanie LaMassa and Philippe Laurent and Franccois Lebrun and Maurice Leutenegger and Olivier Limousin and Michael Loewenstein and Knox Long and David Lumb and Grzegorz Madejski and Yoshitomo Maeda and Kazuo Makishima and Maxim Markevitch and Candace Masters and Hironori Matsumoto and Kyoko Matsushita and Dan McCammon and Daniel Mcguinness and Brian McNamara and Joseph Miko and Jon Miller and Eric Miller and Shin Mineshige and Kenji Minesugi and Ikuyuki Mitsuishi and Takuya Miyazawa and Tsunefumi Mizuno and Koji Mori and Hideyuki Mori and Franco Moroso and Theodore Muench and Koji Mukai and Hiroshi Murakami and Toshio Murakami and Richard Mushotzky and Housei Nagano and Ryo Nagino and Takao Nakagawa and Hiroshi Nakajima and Takeshi Nakamori and Shinya Nakashima and Kazuhiro Nakazawa and Yoshiharu Namba and Chikara Natsukari and Yusuke Nishioka and Masayoshi Nobukawa and Hirofumi Noda and Masaharu Nomachi and Steve O' Dell and Hirokazu Odaka and Hiroyuki Ogawa and Mina Ogawa and Keiji Ogi and Takaya Ohashi and Masanori Ohno and Masayuki Ohta and Takashi Okajima and Atsushi Okamoto and Tsuyoshi Okazaki and Naomi Ota and Masanobu Ozaki and Frits Paerels and St'ephane Paltani and Arvind Parmar and Robert Petre and Ciro Pinto and Martin Pohl and James Pontius and F. Scott Porter and Katja Pottschmidt and Brian Ramsey and Rubens Reis and Christopher Reynolds and Claudio Ricci and Helen Russell and Samar Safi-Harb and Shinya Saito and Shin-ichiro Sakai and Hiroaki Sameshima and Goro Sato and Yoichi Sato and Kosuke Sato and Rie Sato and Makoto Sawada and Peter Serlemitsos and Hiromi Seta and Yasuko Shibano and Maki Shida and Takanobu Shimada and Keisuke Shinozaki and Peter Shirron and Aurora Simionescu and Cynthia Simmons and Randall Smith and Gary Sneiderman and Yang Soong and Lukasz Stawarz and Yasuharu Sugawara and Hiroyuki Sugita and Satoshi Sugita and Andrew Szymkowiak and Hiroyasu Tajima and Hiromitsu Takahashi and Hiroaki Takahashi and Shin-ichiro Takeda 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 Yohko Tsuboi and Masahiro Tsujimoto and Hiroshi Tsunemi and Takeshi Tsuru and Hiroyuki Uchida and Yasunobu Uchiyama and Hideki Uchiyama and Yoshihiro Ueda and Shutaro Ueda and Shiro Ueno and Shinichiro Uno and Meg Urry and Eugenio Ursino and Cor de Vries and Atsushi Wada and Shin Watanabe and Tomomi Watanabe and Norbert Werner and Nicholas White and Dan Wilkins and Takahiro Yamada and Shinya Yamada and Hiroya Yamaguchi and Kazutaka Yamaoka and Noriko Yamasaki and Makoto Yamauchi and Shigeo Yamauchi and Tahir Yaqoob and Yoichi Yatsu and Daisuke Yonetoku and Atsumasa Yoshida and Takayuki Yuasa and Irina Zhuravleva and Abderahmen Zoghbi and John ZuHone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.1356},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
24 pages, 18 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray"