Arcus: The Soft X-ray Grating Explorer

被引:12
作者
Smith, Randall K. [1 ]
Abraham, Margaret [2 ]
Baird, Grace [3 ,4 ]
Bautz, Marshall [5 ]
Bookbinder, Jay [6 ]
Bregman, Joel [7 ]
Brenneman, Laura [1 ]
Brickhouse, Nancy [1 ]
Burrows, David [8 ]
Burwitz, Vadim [9 ]
Bushman, Joseph [3 ,4 ]
Canizares, Claude [5 ]
Chakrabarty, Deepto [5 ]
Cheimets, Peter [1 ]
Costantini, Elisa [10 ]
Dawson, Simon [6 ]
DeRoo, Casey [11 ]
Falcone, Abraham [8 ]
Foster, Adam [1 ]
Gallo, Luigi [12 ]
Grant, Catherine E. [5 ]
Gunther, H. Moritz [5 ]
Heilmann, Ralf K. [5 ]
Hine, Butler [6 ]
Huenemoerder, David [5 ]
Jara, Steve [6 ]
Kaastra, Jelle [10 ]
Kreykenbohm, Ingo [13 ]
Madsen, Kristin [14 ]
McDonald, Michael [5 ]
McEachen, Michael [3 ,4 ]
McEntaffer, Randall [8 ]
Marshall, Herman
Miller, Eric [5 ]
Miller, Jon [7 ]
Morse, Elisabeth [3 ,4 ]
Mushotzky, Richard [15 ]
Nandra, Kirpal
Nowak, Michael [16 ]
Paerels, Frits [17 ]
Petre, Robert [18 ]
Poppenhaeger, Katja [19 ]
Ptak, Andrew [18 ]
Reid, Paul [1 ]
Ronzano, Karolyn [6 ]
Sanders, Jeremy [9 ]
Schattenburg, Mark [5 ]
Schonfeld, Jonathan [1 ]
Schulz, Norbert [5 ]
Smale, Alan [18 ]
机构
[1] Ctr Astrophys Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] Aerosp Corp, Pasadena, CA USA
[3] Northrop Grumman, Dulles, VA USA
[4] Northrop Grumman, Goleta, CA USA
[5] MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[6] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA USA
[7] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[8] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[9] MPI Extraterr Phys, Garching, Germany
[10] SRON Netherlands Inst Space Res, SRON, Utrecht, Netherlands
[11] Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA
[12] St Marys Univ, Halifax, NS, Canada
[13] FAU Erlangen Nuernberg, Bamberg, Germany
[14] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[15] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[16] Washington Univ, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
[17] Columbia Univ, New York, NY USA
[18] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA
[19] Leibniz Inst Astrophys, Potsdam, Germany
[20] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD USA
[21] Univ Leicester, Leicester, Leics, England
来源
UV, X-RAY, AND GAMMA-RAY SPACE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY XXI | 2019年 / 11118卷
关键词
GAS; ACCRETION; DENSITY;
D O I
10.1117/12.2529499
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Arcus provides high-resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy in the 12-50 angstrom bandpass with unprecedented sensitivity, including spectral resolution > 2500 and effective area > 250 cm(2). The three top science goals for Arcus are (1) to measure the effects of structure formation imprinted upon the hot baryons that are predicted to lie in extended halos around galaxies, (2) to trace the propagation of outflowing mass, energy, and momentum from the vicinity of the black hole to extragalactic scales as a measure of their feedback, and (3) to explore how stars form and evolve. Arcus uses the same 12 m focal length grazing-incidence Silicon Pore X-ray Optics (SPOs) that ESA has developed for the Athena mission; the focal length is achieved on orbit via an extendable optical bench. The focused X-rays from these optics are diffracted by high-efficiency Critical-Angle Transmission (CAT) gratings, and the results are imaged with flight-proven CCD detectors and electronics. Combined with the high-heritage NGIS LEOStar-2 spacecraft and launched into 4:1 lunar resonant orbit, Arcus provides high sensitivity and high efficiency observing of a wide range of astrophysical sources.
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