XEUS - The X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission
Abstract
XEUS is under study by ESA as part of the Horizon 2000+ program to utilize the International Space Station (ISS) for astronomical applications. XEUS will be a long-term X-ray observatory with an initial mirror area of 6m2 at 1 keV that will be grown to 30m2 following a visit to the ISS. The 1 keV spatial resolution is expected to be 2-5'' HEW. XEUS will consist of separate detector and mirror spacecraft aligned by active control to provide a focal length of 50m. A new detector spacecraft, complete with the next generation of instruments, will also be added after visiting the ISS. The limiting sensitivity will then be ~4 10-18 erg/cm2/s - around 250 times better than XMM, allowing XEUS to study the properties of the hot baryons and dark matter at high redshift.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9911494,
title = {XEUS - The X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission},
author = {A. N. Parmar and T. Peacock and M. Bavdaz and G. Hasinger and M. Arnaud and X. Barcons and D. Barret and A. Blanchard and H. Bohringer and M. Cappi and A. Comastri and T. Courvoisier and A. C. Fabian and R. Griffiths and P. Malaguti and K. O. Mason and T. Ohashi and F. Paerels and L. Piro and J. Schmitt and M. van der Klis and M. Ward},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9911494},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages. To appear in "Large scale structure in the X-Ray Universe", Santorini, Greece