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Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2018
Book Volume: 4
Journal Issue: 2
DOI: 10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.021402
The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft x-rays to gamma rays. After a successful launch on February 17, 2016, the spacecraft lost its function on March 26, 2016, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the onboard instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
APA:
Takahashi, T., Kokubun, M., Mitsuda, K., Kelley, R.L., Ohashi, T., Aharonian, F.,... Zoghbi, A. (2018). Hitomi (ASTRO-H) X-ray Astronomy Satellite. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 4(2). https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.021402
MLA:
Takahashi, Tadayuki, et al. "Hitomi (ASTRO-H) X-ray Astronomy Satellite." Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 4.2 (2018).
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