Presentation details
» X-ray telescope system onboard the Japanese X-ray Astronomy mission Astro-H
Presentation duration: 20 minutes
Presenter: Hisamitsu Awaki
The new Japanese X-ray Astronomy satellite, Astro-H is an international X-ray mission which is currently planed for launch in fiscal 2013. One of the unique features of the mission is an imaging spectroscopy in a unprecedentedly wide energy region from 0.3 to 60 keV. The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) system covers the energy region by means of grazing incidence reflective optics. In the current baseline specification, the XRT system consists of two hard X-ray telescopes which cover 5 to 60 keV, and two soft X-ray telescopes which cover 0.3 to about 20 keV. Both of hard and soft X-ray mirrors employ tightly-nested, conically-approximated thin-foil Wolter-I optics. In this meeting, I will introduce the X-ray telescope system onboard Astro-H.
Coauthors:- Hideyo Kunieda (Nagoya Univ.)
- Y. Tawara (Nagoya Univ.)
- A. Furuzawa (Nagoya Univ.)
- H. Mori (Nagoya Univ.)
- T. Miyazawa (Nagoya Univ.)
- M. Ishida (ISAS/JAXA)
- Y. Maeda (ISAS/JAXA)
- K. Ogi (Ehime UNiv.)
- T. Kosaka (Osaka City Univ.)
- S. Yamauchi (Nara women's Univ.)
- R. Iizuka (Chuo Univ.)
- Y. Namba (Chubu Univ.)
- P.J. Serlemitsos (NASA/GSFC)
- Y.G. Soong (NASA/GSFC)
- T. Okajima (NASA/GSFC)
- Astro-H team