The NeXT Mission
Abstract
The NeXT (New exploration X-ray Telescope), the new Japanese X-ray Astronomy Satellite following Suzaku, is an international X-ray mission which is currently planed for launch in 2013. NeXT is a combination of wide band X-ray spectroscopy (3 - 80 keV) provided by multi-layer coating, focusing hard X-ray mirrors and hard X-ray imaging detectors, and high energy-resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy (0.3 - 10 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 and a non-focusing soft gamma-ray detector. With these instruments, NeXT covers very wide energy range from 0.3 keV to 600 keV. The micro-calorimeter system will be developed by international collaboration lead by ISAS/JAXA and NASA. The simultaneous broad bandpass, coupled with high spectral resolution of Delta E ~ 7 eV by the micro-calorimeter will enable a wide variety of important science themes to be pursued.
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@article{arxiv.0807.2007,
title = {The NeXT Mission},
author = {T. Takahashi and R. Kelley and K. Mitsuda and H. Kunieda and R. Petre and N. White and T. Dotani and R. Fujimoto and Y. Fukazawa and K. Hayashida and M. Ishida and Y. Ishisaki and M. Kokubun and K. Makishima and K. Koyama and G. M. Madejski and K. Mori and R. Mushotzky and K. Nakazawa and Y. Ogasaka and T. Ohashi and M. Ozaki and H. Tajima and M. Tashiro and Y. Terada and H. Tsunemi and T. G. Tsuru and Y. Ueda and N. Yamasaki and S. Watanabe and the NeXT team},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2007},
year = {2009}
}
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14 pages, 10 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE meeting, "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation II: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 2008", Marseille (2008)