The Arcus Probe Mission

Smith R, Arenberg J, Bautz M, Behar E, Bhattacharyya D, Bookbinder J, Bregman J, Brenneman L, Brickhouse N, Bulbul GE, Burwitz V, Bushman J, Cheimets P, Costantini E, DeRoo C, Donovan BD, Falcone A, Fleming B, Foster A, France K, Friedrich P, Gallo L, Grant CE, Günther HM, Haggard D, Heilmann RK, Heine S, Hine B, Huenemoerder D, Kaastra J, Kreykenbohm I, Laha S, Marcum P, Marshall H, McEntaffer R, Mehdipour M, Miller ED, Miller JM, Nandra K, Nell N, Nowak M, Paerels F, Poppenhaeger K, Ptak A, Rozanska A, Samra J, Sanders J, Schattenburg ML, Schulz NS, Sparr LM, Temi P, Tripp TM, Valencic L, Wilms J, Walker S, Wilson D, Wolk S (2024)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2024

Publisher: SPIE

Book Volume: 13093

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Event location: Yokohama

ISBN: 9781510675094

DOI: 10.1117/12.3022452

Abstract

The Arcus Probe mission addresses a wide range of Astro2020 Decadal and NASA Science Mission Directorate Priority science areas, and is designed to explore astrophysical feedback across all mass scales. Arcus' three baseline science goals include: (i) Characterizing the drivers of accretion-powered feedback in supermassive black holes, (ii) Quantifying how feedback at all scales drives galaxy evolution and large-scale structure, including the tenuous cosmic web, and (iii) Analyzing stellar feedback from exoplanetary to galactic scales, including its effects on exoplanet environments targeted by current and future NASA missions. These science goals, along with a robust General Observer program, will be achieved using a mission that provides a high-sensitivity soft (10-60Å) X-ray spectrometer (XRS), working simultaneously with a co-aligned UV spectrometer (UVS; 970-1580Å). Arcus enables compelling baseline science and provides the broader astronomy community a revolutionary tool to characterize the full ionization range of warm and hot plasmas - including hydrogen, helium, and all abundant metals - in the Universe, from the halos of galaxies and clusters to the coronae of stars.

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Involved external institutions

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) United States (USA) (US) University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) United States (USA) (US) Smithsonian Institution United States (USA) (US) Northrop Grumman Corporation United States (USA) (US) University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) United States (USA) (US) Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) United States (USA) (US) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States (USA) (US) University of Michigan United States (USA) (US) Washington University in St. Louis United States (USA) (US) Cardiovascular Research Foundation United States (USA) (US) Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam / Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam Germany (DE) Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences Poland (PL) Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) / Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Germany (DE) Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel (IL) University of Colorado at Boulder United States (USA) (US) Johns Hopkins University (JHU) United States (USA) (US) Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) United States (USA) (US) Netherlands Institute for Space Research / Stichting Ruimteonderzoek Nederland (SRON) Netherlands (NL) University of Iowa United States (USA) (US) Saint Mary's University Canada (CA) McGill University Canada (CA)

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APA:

Smith, R., Arenberg, J., Bautz, M., Behar, E., Bhattacharyya, D., Bookbinder, J.,... Wolk, S. (2024). The Arcus Probe Mission. In Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Yokohama, JP: SPIE.

MLA:

Smith, Randall, et al. "The Arcus Probe Mission." Proceedings of the Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Yokohama Ed. Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, SPIE, 2024.

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