Resolve Instrument on X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (XARM)

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作者
Ishisaki, Y. [1 ]
Ezoe, Y. [1 ]
Yamada, S. [1 ]
Ichinohe, Y. [1 ]
Fujimoto, R. [2 ]
Takei, Y. [3 ]
Yasuda, S. [3 ]
Ishida, M. [3 ]
Yamasaki, N. Y. [3 ]
Maeda, Y. [3 ]
Tsujimoto, M. [3 ]
Iizuka, R. [3 ]
Koyama, S. [3 ]
Noda, H. [4 ]
Tamagawa, T. [5 ]
Sawada, M. [6 ]
Sato, K. [7 ]
Kitamoto, S. [8 ]
Hoshino, A. [8 ]
Brown, G. V. [9 ]
Eckart, M. E. [10 ]
Hayashi, T. [10 ]
Kelley, R. L. [10 ]
Kilbourne, C. A. [10 ]
Leutenegger, M. A. [10 ]
Mori, H. [10 ]
Okajima, T. [10 ]
Porter, F. S. [10 ]
Soong, Y. [10 ]
McCammon, D. [11 ]
Szymkowiak, A. E. [12 ]
机构
[1] Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Tokyo, Japan
[2] Kanazawa Univ, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
[3] JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[4] Tohoku Univ, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
[5] RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
[6] Aoyama Gakuin Univ, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
[7] Tokyo Univ Sci, Shinjuku Ku, Tokyo, Japan
[8] Rikkyo Univ, Toshima, Japan
[9] LLNL, Livermore, CA USA
[10] NASA, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD USA
[11] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[12] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT USA
关键词
X-ray astronomy; Microcalorimeter; Cryogenic detector;
D O I
10.1007/s10909-018-1913-4
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
The X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (XARM) is a recovery mission of ASTRO-H/Hitomi, which is expected to be launched in Japanese Fiscal Year of 2020 at the earliest. The Resolve instrument on XARM consists of an array of 6 x 6 silicon-thermistor microcalorimeters cooled down to 50 mK and a high-throughput X-ray mirror assembly with the focal length of 5.6 m. Hitomi was launched into orbit in February 2016 and observed several celestial objects, although the operation of Hitomi was terminated in April 2016. The soft X-ray spectrometer (SXS) on Hitomi demonstrated high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of similar to 5eV FWHM in orbit for most of the pixels. The Resolve instrument is planned to mostly be a copy of the Hitomi SXS and soft X-ray telescope designs, though several changes are planned based on the lessons learned from Hitomi. We report a brief summary of the SXS performance and the status of the Resolve instrument.
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页码:991 / 995
页数:5
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