The ASTRO-H Mission

Tadayuki Takahashi , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Richard Kelley , Felix Aharonian , Fumie Akimoto , Steve Allen , Naohisa Anabuki , Lorella Angelini , Keith Arnaud , Hisamitsu Awaki , Aya Bamba , Nobutaka Bando , Mark Bautz , Roger Blandford , Kevin Boyce , Greg Brown , Mara Chernyakova , Paolo Coppi , Elisa Costantini , Jean Cottam , John Crow , Jelle de Plaa , Cor de Vries , Jan-Willem den Herder , Michael Dipirro , Chris Done , Tadayasu Dotani , Ken Ebisawa , Teruaki Enoto , Yuichiro Ezoe , Andrew Fabian , Ryuichi Fujimoto , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Akihiro Furuzawa , Massimiliano Galeazzi , Poshak Gandhi , Keith Gendreau , Kirk Gilmore , Yoshito Haba , Kenji Hamaguchi , Isamu Hatsukade , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Junko Hiraga , Kazuyuki Hirose , Ann Hornschemeier , John Hughes , Una Hwang , Ryo Iizuka , Kazunori Ishibashi , Manabu Ishida , Kosei Ishimura , Yoshitaka Ishisaki , Naoki Isobe , Masayuki Ito , Naoko Iwata , Jelle Kaastra , Tim Kallman , Tuneyoshi Kamae , Hideaki Katagiri , Jun Kataoka , Satoru Katsuda , Madoka Kawaharada , Nobuyuki Kawai , Shigeo Kawasaki , Dmitry Khangaluyan , Caroline Kilbourne , Kenzo Kinugasa , Shunji Kitamoto , Tetsu Kitayama , Takayoshi Kohmura , Motohide Kokubun , Tatsuro Kosaka , Taro Kotani , Katsuji Koyama , Aya Kubota , Hideyo Kunieda , Philippe Laurent (1) , F. Lebrun (1) , O. Limousin (2) , Michael Loewenstein , Knox Long , Grzegorz Madejski , Yoshitomo Maeda , Kazuo Makishima , Maxim Markevitch , Hironori Matsumoto , Kyoko Matsushita , Dan Mccammon , Jon Miller , Shin Mineshige , Kenji Minesugi , Takuya Miyazawa , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Koji Mori , Hideyuki Mori , Koji Mukai , Hiroshi Murakami , Toshio Murakami , Richard Mushotzky , Yujin Nakagawa , Takao Nakagawa , Hiroshi Nakajima , Takeshi Nakamori , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Yoshiharu Namba , Masaharu Nomachi , Stephen O'Dell , Hiroyuki Ogawa , Mina Ogawa , Keiji Ogi , Takaya Ohashi , Masanori Ohno , Masayuki Ohta , Takashi Okajima , Naomi Ota , Masanobu Ozaki , Frederik Paerels , Stéphane Paltani , Arvind Parmar , Robert Petre , Martin Pohl , S. Porter , Brian Ramsey , Christopher Reynolds , Shin-Ichiro Sakai , Rita Sambruna , Goro Sato , Yoichi Sato , Peter Serlemitsos , Maki Shida , Takanobu Shimada , Keisuke Shinozaki , Peter Shirron , Randall Smith , Gary Sneiderman , Yang Soong , Lukasz Stawarz , Hiroyuki Sugita , Andrew Szymkowiak , Hiroyasu Tajima , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Yoh Takei , Tohru Tamagawa , Takayuki Tamura , Keisuke Tamura , Takaaki Tanaka , Yasayuki Tanaka , Yasuo Tanaka , Makoto Tashiro , Yuzuru Tawara , Yukikatsu Terada , Yuichi Terashima , Francesco Tombesi , Hiroshi Tomida , Miyako Tozuka , Yohko Tsuboi , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Hiroshi Tsunemi , Takeshi Tsuru , Hiroyuki Uchida , Yasunobu Uchiyama , Hideki Uchiyama , Yoshihiro Ueda , Shinichiro Uno , Meg Urry , Shin Watanabe , Nicholas White , Takahiro Yamada , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Kazutaka Yamaoka , Noriko Yamasaki , Makoto Yamauchi , Shigeo Yamauchi , Yoichi Yatsu , Daisuke Yonetoku , Atsumasa Yoshida

1 APC - AHE - APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies
2 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers

The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will investigate the physics of the high-energy universe by performing high-resolution, high-throughput spectroscopy with moderate angular resolution. ASTRO-H covers very wide energy range from 0.3 keV to 600 keV. ASTRO-H allows a combination of wide band X-ray spectroscopy (5-80 keV) provided by multilayer coating, focusing hard X-ray mirrors and hard X-ray imaging detectors, and high energy-resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy (0.3-12 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 (0.4-12 keV) and a non-focusing soft gamma-ray detector (40-600 keV) . The micro-calorimeter system is developed by an international collaboration led by ISAS/JAXA and NASA. The simultaneous broad bandpass, coupled with high spectral resolution of ΔE ~7 eV provided by the micro-calorimeter will enable a wide variety of important science themes to be pursued.

Domaines: Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]; Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]

Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard Kelley, Felix Aharonian, Fumie Akimoto, et al.. The ASTRO-H Mission. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010, Jun 2010, San Diego (California), United States. pp.77320Z, ⟨10.1117/12.857875⟩. ⟨hal-00715259⟩