The ASTRO-H X-ray Astronomy Satellite

Takahashi T, Mitsuda K, Kelley R, Aharonian F, Akamatsu H, Akimoto F, Allen S, Anabuki N, Angelini L, Arnaud K, Asai M, Audard M, Awaki H, Azzarello P, Baluta C, Bamba A, Bando N, Bautz M, Bialas T, Blandford R, Boyce K, Brenneman L, Brown G, Cackett E, Canavan E, Chernyakova M, Chiao M, Coppi P, Costantini E, De Plaa J, Den Herder JW, Dipirro M, Done C, Dotani T, Doty J, Ebisawa K, Enotor T, Ezoe Y, Fabian A, Ferrigno C, Foster A, Fujimoto R, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Furuzawa A, Galeazzi M, Gallo L, Gandhi P, Gilmore K, Guainazzi M, Haas D, Haba Y, Hamaguchi K, Harayama A, Hatsukade I, Hayashi K, Hayashi T, Hayashida K, Hiraga J, Hirose K, Hornschemeier A, Hoshino A, Hughes J, Hwang U, Iizuka R, Inoue Y, Ishibashi K, Ishida M, Ishikawa K, Ishimura K, Ishisaki Y, Itoh M, Iwata N, Iyomoto N, Jewell C, Kaastra J, Kallman T, Kamae T, Kataoka J, Katsuda S, Katsuta J, Kawaharada M, Kawai N, Kawano T, Kawasaki S, Khangaluyan D, Kilbourne C, Kimball M, Kimura M, Kitamoto S, Kitayama T, Kohmura T, Kokubun M, Konami S, Kosaka T, Koujelev A, Koyama K, Krimm H, Kubota A, Kunieda H, Lamassa S, Laurent P, Lebrun F, Leutenegger M, Limousin O, Loewenstein M, Long K, Lumb D, Madejski G, Maeda Y, Makishima K, Markevitch M, Masters C, Matsumoto H, Matsushita K, Mccammon D, Mcguinness D, Mcnamara B, Miko J, Miller J, Miller E, Mineshige S, Minesugi K, Mitsuishi I, Miyazawa T, Mizuno T, Mori K, Mori H, Moroso F, Muench T, Mukai K, Murakami H, Murakami T, Mushotzky R, Nagano H, Nagino R, Nakagawa T, Nakajima H, Nakamori T, Nakashima S, Nakazawa K, Namba Y, Natsukari C, Nishioka Y, Nobukawa M, Noda H, Nomachi M, Dell SO, Odaka H, Ogawa H, Ogawa M, Ogi K, Ohashi T, Ohno M, Ohta M, Okajima T, Okazaki T, Ota N, Ozaki M, Paerels F, Paltani S, Parmar A, Petre R, Pinto C, Pohl M, Pontius J, Porter FS, Pottschmidt K, Ramsey B, Reis R, Reynolds C, Ricci C, Russell H, Safi-Harb S, Saito S, Sakai SI, Sameshima H, Sato K, Sato R, Sato G, Sawada M, Serlemitsos P, Seta H, Shibano Y, Shida M, Shimada T, Shirron P, Simionescu A, Simmons C, Smith R, Sneiderman G, Soong Y, Stawarz L, Sugawara Y, Sugita S, Szymkowiak A, Tajima H, Takahashi H, Takahashi H, Takeda SI, Takei Y, Tamagawa T, Tamura K, Tamura T, Tanaka T, Tanaka Y, Tanaka Y, Tashiro M, Tawara Y, Terada Y, Terashima Y, Tombesi F, Tomida H, Tsuboi Y, Tsujimoto M, Tsunemi H, Tsuru T, Uchida H, Uchiyama H, Uchiyama Y, Ueda Y, Uedag S, Ueno S, Uno S, Urry M, Ursino E, De Vries C, Wada A, Watanabe S, Watanabe T, Werner N, White N, Wilkins D, Yamada S, Yamada T, Yamaguchi H, Yamaoka K, Yamasaki N, Yamauchi M, Yamauchi S, Yadoob T, Yatsu Y, Yonetoku D, Yoshida A, Yuasa T, Zhuravleva I, Zoghbi A, Zuhone J (2014)


Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2014

Journal

Publisher: International Society for Optical Engineering; 1999

Book Volume: 9144

DOI: 10.1117/12.2055681

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.

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APA:

Takahashi, T., Mitsuda, K., Kelley, R., Aharonian, F., Akamatsu, H., Akimoto, F.,... Zuhone, J. (2014). The ASTRO-H X-ray Astronomy Satellite. International Society for Optical Engineering; 1999.

MLA:

Takahashi, Tadayuki, et al. "The ASTRO-H X-ray Astronomy Satellite." International Society for Optical Engineering; 1999, 2014.

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