The NeXT Mission
| Autor: | Y. Ogasaka, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, H. Tajima, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, G. M. Madejski, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Shin Watanabe, Yukikatsu Terada, Kazuo Makishima, Katsuji Koyama, Motohide Kokubun, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Takeshi Go Tsuru, K. Mori, Y. Ishisaki, Yoshihiro Ueda, Yasushi Fukazawa, N. E. White, M. Ozaki, Manabu Ishida, Robert Petre, Tadayasu Dotani, R. F. Mushotzky, Tadayuki Takahashi, Makoto Tashiro, Takaya Ohashi, Hideyo Kunieda, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, NeXT team, R. L. Kelley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Physics
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors business.industry Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics (astro-ph) Detector Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics FOS: Physical sciences Focal plane detector Astrophysics law.invention Telescope Optics Band-pass filter law Satellite Wide band Spectral resolution Spectroscopy business |
| Zdroj: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.789640 |
| Popis: | The NeXT (New exploration X-ray Telescope), the new Japanese X-ray Astronomy Satellite following Suzaku, is an international X-ray mission which is currently planed for launch in 2013. NeXT is a combination of wide band X-ray spectroscopy (3 - 80 keV) provided by multi-layer coating, focusing hard X-ray mirrors and hard X-ray imaging detectors, and high energy-resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy (0.3 - 10 keV) provided by thin-foil X-ray optics and a micro-calorimeter array. The mission will also carry an X-ray CCD camera as a focal plane detector for a soft X-ray telescope and a non-focusing soft gamma-ray detector. With these instruments, NeXT covers very wide energy range from 0.3 keV to 600 keV. The micro-calorimeter system will be developed by international collaboration lead by ISAS/JAXA and NASA. The simultaneous broad bandpass, coupled with high spectral resolution of Delta E ~ 7 eV by the micro-calorimeter will enable a wide variety of important science themes to be pursued. 14 pages, 10 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE meeting, "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation II: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 2008", Marseille (2008) |
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