The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory
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 via a suite of four instruments, covering a very wide energy range, from 0.3 keV to 600 keV. These instruments include a high-resolution, high-throughput spectrometer sensitive over 0.3-2 keV with high spectral resolution of Delta E < 7 eV, enabled by a micro-calorimeter array located in the focal plane of thin-foil X-ray optics; hard X-ray imaging spectrometers covering 5-80 keV, located in the focal plane of multilayer-coated, focusing hard X-ray mirrors; a wide-field imaging spectrometer sensitive over 0.4-12 keV, with an X-ray CCD camera in the focal plane of a soft X-ray telescope; and a non-focusing Compton-camera type soft gamma-ray detector, sensitive in the 40-600 keV band. The simultaneous broad bandpass, coupled with high spectral resolution, will enable the pursuit of a wide variety of important science themes.
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@article{arxiv.1210.4378,
title = {The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory},
author = {Tadayuki Takahashi and Kazuhisa Mitsuda and Richard Kelley and Henri AartsFelix 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 Mark Bautz and Roger Blandford and Kevin Boyce and Greg Brown and Ed Cackett and Maria Chernyakova 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 Keith Gendreau and Kirk Gilmore and Daniel Haas and Yoshito Haba and Kenji Hamaguchi and Isamu Hatsukade and Takayuki 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 Kosei Ishimura and Yoshitaka Ishisaki and Masayuki Ito and Naoko Iwata and Naoko Iyomoto and Jelle Kaastra and Timothy Kallman and Tuneyoshi Kamae and Jun Kataoka and Satoru Katsuda and Hajime Kawahara and Madoka Kawaharada and Nobuyuki Kawai and Shigeo Kawasaki and Dmitry Khangaluyan and Caroline Kilbourne and Masashi Kimura and Kenzo Kinugasa and Shunji Kitamoto and Tetsu Kitayama and Takayoshi Kohmura and Motohide Kokubun 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 Francois 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 Genevieve Marchand and Maxim Markevitch and Hironori Matsumoto and Kyoko Matsushita and Dan McCammon and Brian McNamara and Jon Miller and Eric Miller and Shin Mineshige and Kenji Minesugi and Ikuyuki Mitsuishi and Takuya Miyazawa and Tsunefumi Mizuno and Hideyuki Mori and Koji Mori and Koji Mukai and Toshio Murakami and Hiroshi Murakami and Richard Mushotzky and Housei Nagano and Ryo Nagino and Takao Nakagawa and Hiroshi Nakajima and Takeshi Nakamori and Kazuhiro Nakazawa and Yoshiharu Namba and Chikara Natsukari and Yusuke Nishioka and Masayoshi Nobukawa 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 Stephane Paltani and Arvind Parmar and Robert Petre and Martin Pohl and F. Scott Porter and Brian Ramsey and Rubens Reis and Christopher Reynolds and Helen Russell and Samar Safi-Harb and Shin-ichiro Sakai and Hiroaki Sameshima and Jeremy Sanders and Goro Sato and Rie Sato and Yoichi Sato and Kosuke 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 Shin-ichiro Takeda and Yoh Takei and Toru Tamagawa and Takayuki Tamura and Keisuke Tamura and Takaaki Tanaka and Yasuo Tanaka and Makoto Tashiro and Yuzuru Tawara and Yukikatsu Terada and Yuichi Terashima and Francesco Tombesi and Hiroshi Tomida 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 Shiro Ueno and Shinichiro Uno and Meg Urry and Eugenio Ursino and Cor de Vries and Atsushi Wada and Shin Watanabe and Norbert Werner and Nicholas White and Takahiro Yamada and Shinya Yamada and Hiroya Yamaguchi and Noriko Yamasaki and Shigeo Yamauchi and Makoto Yamauchi and Yoichi Yatsu and Daisuke Yonetoku and Atsumasa Yoshida and Takayuki Yuasa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4378},
year = {2015}
}
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22 pages, 17 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray"