Abstract
The ASTRO-H mission was designed and developed through an international collaboration of JAXA, NASA, ESA, and the CSA. It was successfully launched on February 17, 2016, and then named Hitomi. During the in-orbit verification phase, the on-board observational instruments functioned as expected. The intricate coolant and refrigeration systems for soft X-ray spectrometer (SXS, a quantum micro-calorimeter) and soft X-ray imager (SXI, an X-ray CCD) also functioned as expected. However, on March 26, 2016, operations were prematurely terminated by a series of abnormal events and mishaps triggered by the attitude control system. These errors led to a fatal event: the loss of the solar panels on the Hitomi mission. The X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (or, XARM) is proposed to regain the key scientific advances anticipated by the international collaboration behind Hitomi. XARM will recover this science in the shortest time possible by focusing on one of the main science goals of Hitomi,"Resolving astrophysical problems by precise high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy".1 This decision was reached after evaluating the performance of the instruments aboard Hitomi and the mission's initial scientific results, and considering the landscape of planned international X-ray astrophysics missions in 2020's and 2030's. Hitomi opened the door to high-resolution spectroscopy in the X-ray universe. It revealed a number of discrepancies between new observational results and prior theoretical predictions. Yet, the resolution pioneered by Hitomi is also the key to answering these and other fundamental questions. The high spectral resolution realized by XARM will not offer mere refinements; rather, it will enable qualitative leaps in astrophysics and plasma physics. XARM has therefore been given a broad scientific charge: "Revealing material circulation and energy transfer in cosmic plasmas and elucidating evolution of cosmic structures and objects". To fulfill this charge, four categories of science objectives that were defined for Hitomi will also be pursued by XARM; these include (1) Structure formation of the Universe and evolution of clusters of galaxies; (2) Circulation history of baryonic matters in the Universe; (3) Transport and circulation of energy in the Universe; (4) New science with unprecedented high resolution X-ray spectroscopy. In order to achieve these scientific objectives, XARM will carry a 6 × 6 pixelized X-ray micro-calorimeter on the focal plane of an X-ray mirror assembly, and an aligned X-ray CCD camera covering the same energy band and a wider field of view. This paper introduces the science objectives, mission concept, and observing plan of XARM.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
| Editors | Shouleh Nikzad, Jan-Willem A. Den Herder, Kazuhiro Nakazawa |
| Publisher | SPIE |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781510619517 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Event | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Austin, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018 |
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| Name | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
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| Volume | 10699 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0277-786X |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1996-756X |
Conference
| Conference | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Austin |
| Period | 10/06/18 → 15/06/18 |
Keywords
- CCD
- X-ray
- X-ray Astronomy
- microcalorimeter
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Concept of the X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission. / Tashiro, Makoto; Maejima, Hironori; Toda, Kenichi; Kelley, Richard; Reichenthal, Lillian; Lobell, James; Petre, Robert; Guainazzi, Matteo; Costantini, Elisa; Edison, Mark; Fujimoto, Ryuichi; Grim, Martin; Hayashida, Kiyoshi; Den Herder, Jan Willem; Ishisaki, Yoshitaka; Paltani, Stéphane; Matsushita, Kyoko; Mori, Koji; Sneiderman, Gary; Takei, Yoh; Terada, Yukikatsu; Tomida, Hiroshi; Akamatsu, Hiroki; Angelini, Lorella; Arai, Yoshitaka; Awaki, Hisamitsu; Babyk, Lurli; Bamba, Aya; Barfknecht, Peter; Barnstable, Kim; Bialas, Thomas; Blagojevic, Branimir; Bonafede, Joseph; Brambora, Clifford; Brenneman, Laura; Brown, Greg; Brown, Kimberly; Burns, Laura; Canavan, Edgar; Carnahan, Tim; Chiao, Meng; Comber, Brian; Corrales, Lia; De Vries, Cor; Dercksen, Johannes; DIaz-Trigo, Maria; DIllard, Tyrone; DIpirro, Michael; Done, Chris; Dotani, Tadayasu; Ebisawa, Ken; Eckart, Megan; Enoto, Teruaki; Ezoe, Yuichiro; Ferrigno, Carlo; Fujita, Yutaka; Fukazawa, Yasushi; Furuzawa, Akihiro; Gallo, Luigi; Graham, Steve; Gu, Liyi; Hagino, Kohichi; Hamaguchi, Kenji; Hatsukade, Isamu; Hawes, Dean; Hayashi, Takayuki; Hegarty, Cailey; Hell, Natalie; Hiraga, Junko; Hodges-Kluck, Edmund; Holland, Matt; Hornschemeier, Ann; Hoshino, Akio; Ichinohe, Yuto; Iizuka, Ryo; Ishibashi, Kazunori; Ishida, Manabu; Ishikawa, Kumi; Ishimura, Kosei; James, Bryan; Kallman, Timothy; Kara, Erin; Katsuda, Satoru; Kenyon, Steven; Kilbourne, Caroline; Kimball, Mark; Kitaguchi, Takao; Kitamoto, Shunji; Kobayashi, Shogo; Kohmura, Takayoshi; Koyama, Shu; Kubota, Aya; Leutenegger, Maurice; Lockard, Tom; Loewenstein, Mike; Maeda, Yoshitomo; Marbley, Lynette; Markevitch, Maxim; Martz, Connor; Matsumoto, Hironori; Matsuzaki, Keiichi; McCammon, Dan; McNamara, Brian; Miko, Joseph; Miller, Eric; Miller, Jon; Minesugi, Kenji; Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki; Mizuno, Tsunefumi; Mori, Hideyuki; Mukai, Koji; Murakami, Hiroshi; Mushotzky, Richard; Nakajima, Hiroshi; Nakamura, Hideto; Nakashima, Shinya; Nakazawa, Kazuhiro; Natsukari, Chikara; Nigo, Kenichiro; Nishioka, Yusuke; Nobukawa, Kumiko; Nobukawa, Masayoshi; Noda, Hirofumi; Odaka, Hirokazu; Ogawa, Mina; Ohashi, Takaya; Ohno, Masahiro; Ohta, Masayuki; Okajima, Takashi; Okamoto, Atsushi; Onizuka, Michitaka; Ota, Naomi; Ozaki, Masanobu; Plucinsky, Paul; Porter, F. Scott; Pottschmidt, Katja; Sato, Kosuke; Sato, Rie; Sawada, Makoto; Seta, Hiromi; Shelton, Ken; Shibano, Yasuko; Shida, Maki; Shidatsu, Megumi; Shirron, Peter; Simionescu, Aurora; Smith, Randall; Someya, Kazunori; Soong, Yang; Suagawara, Yasuharu; Szymkowiak, Andy; Takahashi, Hiromitsu; Tamagawa, Toru; Tamura, Takayuki; Tanaka, Takaaki; Terashima, Yuichi; Tsuboi, Yohko; Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Tsunemi, Hiroshi; Tsuru, Takeshi; Uchida, Hiroyuki; Uchiyama, Hideki; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Uno, Shinichiro; Walsh, Thomas; Watanabe, Shin; Williams, Brian; Wolfs, Rob; Wright, Michael; Yamada, Shinya; Yamaguchi, Hiroya; Yamaoka, Kazutaka; Yamasaki, Noriko; Yamauchi, Shigeo; Yamauchi, Makoto; Yanagase, Keiichi; Yaqoob, Tahir; Yasuda, Susumu; Yoshioka, Nasa; Zabala, Jaime; Irina, Zhuravleva.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. ed. / Shouleh Nikzad; Jan-Willem A. Den Herder; Kazuhiro Nakazawa. SPIE, 2018. 1069922 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 10699).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
TY - GEN
T1 - Concept of the X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission
AU - Tashiro, Makoto
AU - Maejima, Hironori
AU - Toda, Kenichi
AU - Kelley, Richard
AU - Reichenthal, Lillian
AU - Lobell, James
AU - Petre, Robert
AU - Guainazzi, Matteo
AU - Costantini, Elisa
AU - Edison, Mark
AU - Fujimoto, Ryuichi
AU - Grim, Martin
AU - Hayashida, Kiyoshi
AU - Den Herder, Jan Willem
AU - Ishisaki, Yoshitaka
AU - Paltani, Stéphane
AU - Matsushita, Kyoko
AU - Mori, Koji
AU - Sneiderman, Gary
AU - Takei, Yoh
AU - Terada, Yukikatsu
AU - Tomida, Hiroshi
AU - Akamatsu, Hiroki
AU - Angelini, Lorella
AU - Arai, Yoshitaka
AU - Awaki, Hisamitsu
AU - Babyk, Lurli
AU - Bamba, Aya
AU - Barfknecht, Peter
AU - Barnstable, Kim
AU - Bialas, Thomas
AU - Blagojevic, Branimir
AU - Bonafede, Joseph
AU - Brambora, Clifford
AU - Brenneman, Laura
AU - Brown, Greg
AU - Brown, Kimberly
AU - Burns, Laura
AU - Canavan, Edgar
AU - Carnahan, Tim
AU - Chiao, Meng
AU - Comber, Brian
AU - Corrales, Lia
AU - De Vries, Cor
AU - Dercksen, Johannes
AU - DIaz-Trigo, Maria
AU - DIllard, Tyrone
AU - DIpirro, Michael
AU - Done, Chris
AU - Dotani, Tadayasu
AU - Ebisawa, Ken
AU - Eckart, Megan
AU - Enoto, Teruaki
AU - Ezoe, Yuichiro
AU - Ferrigno, Carlo
AU - Fujita, Yutaka
AU - Fukazawa, Yasushi
AU - Furuzawa, Akihiro
AU - Gallo, Luigi
AU - Graham, Steve
AU - Gu, Liyi
AU - Hagino, Kohichi
AU - Hamaguchi, Kenji
AU - Hatsukade, Isamu
AU - Hawes, Dean
AU - Hayashi, Takayuki
AU - Hegarty, Cailey
AU - Hell, Natalie
AU - Hiraga, Junko
AU - Hodges-Kluck, Edmund
AU - Holland, Matt
AU - Hornschemeier, Ann
AU - Hoshino, Akio
AU - Ichinohe, Yuto
AU - Iizuka, Ryo
AU - Ishibashi, Kazunori
AU - Ishida, Manabu
AU - Ishikawa, Kumi
AU - Ishimura, Kosei
AU - James, Bryan
AU - Kallman, Timothy
AU - Kara, Erin
AU - Katsuda, Satoru
AU - Kenyon, Steven
AU - Kilbourne, Caroline
AU - Kimball, Mark
AU - Kitaguchi, Takao
AU - Kitamoto, Shunji
AU - Kobayashi, Shogo
AU - Kohmura, Takayoshi
AU - Koyama, Shu
AU - Kubota, Aya
AU - Leutenegger, Maurice
AU - Lockard, Tom
AU - Loewenstein, Mike
AU - Maeda, Yoshitomo
AU - Marbley, Lynette
AU - Markevitch, Maxim
AU - Martz, Connor
AU - Matsumoto, Hironori
AU - Matsuzaki, Keiichi
AU - McCammon, Dan
AU - McNamara, Brian
AU - Miko, Joseph
AU - Miller, Eric
AU - Miller, Jon
AU - Minesugi, Kenji
AU - Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki
AU - Mizuno, Tsunefumi
AU - Mori, Hideyuki
AU - Mukai, Koji
AU - Murakami, Hiroshi
AU - Mushotzky, Richard
AU - Nakajima, Hiroshi
AU - Nakamura, Hideto
AU - Nakashima, Shinya
AU - Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
AU - Natsukari, Chikara
AU - Nigo, Kenichiro
AU - Nishioka, Yusuke
AU - Nobukawa, Kumiko
AU - Nobukawa, Masayoshi
AU - Noda, Hirofumi
AU - Odaka, Hirokazu
AU - Ogawa, Mina
AU - Ohashi, Takaya
AU - Ohno, Masahiro
AU - Ohta, Masayuki
AU - Okajima, Takashi
AU - Okamoto, Atsushi
AU - Onizuka, Michitaka
AU - Ota, Naomi
AU - Ozaki, Masanobu
AU - Plucinsky, Paul
AU - Porter, F. Scott
AU - Pottschmidt, Katja
AU - Sato, Kosuke
AU - Sato, Rie
AU - Sawada, Makoto
AU - Seta, Hiromi
AU - Shelton, Ken
AU - Shibano, Yasuko
AU - Shida, Maki
AU - Shidatsu, Megumi
AU - Shirron, Peter
AU - Simionescu, Aurora
AU - Smith, Randall
AU - Someya, Kazunori
AU - Soong, Yang
AU - Suagawara, Yasuharu
AU - Szymkowiak, Andy
AU - Takahashi, Hiromitsu
AU - Tamagawa, Toru
AU - Tamura, Takayuki
AU - Tanaka, Takaaki
AU - Terashima, Yuichi
AU - Tsuboi, Yohko
AU - Tsujimoto, Masahiro
AU - Tsunemi, Hiroshi
AU - Tsuru, Takeshi
AU - Uchida, Hiroyuki
AU - Uchiyama, Hideki
AU - Ueda, Yoshihiro
AU - Uno, Shinichiro
AU - Walsh, Thomas
AU - Watanabe, Shin
AU - Williams, Brian
AU - Wolfs, Rob
AU - Wright, Michael
AU - Yamada, Shinya
AU - Yamaguchi, Hiroya
AU - Yamaoka, Kazutaka
AU - Yamasaki, Noriko
AU - Yamauchi, Shigeo
AU - Yamauchi, Makoto
AU - Yanagase, Keiichi
AU - Yaqoob, Tahir
AU - Yasuda, Susumu
AU - Yoshioka, Nasa
AU - Zabala, Jaime
AU - Irina, Zhuravleva
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The ASTRO-H mission was designed and developed through an international collaboration of JAXA, NASA, ESA, and the CSA. It was successfully launched on February 17, 2016, and then named Hitomi. During the in-orbit verification phase, the on-board observational instruments functioned as expected. The intricate coolant and refrigeration systems for soft X-ray spectrometer (SXS, a quantum micro-calorimeter) and soft X-ray imager (SXI, an X-ray CCD) also functioned as expected. However, on March 26, 2016, operations were prematurely terminated by a series of abnormal events and mishaps triggered by the attitude control system. These errors led to a fatal event: the loss of the solar panels on the Hitomi mission. The X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (or, XARM) is proposed to regain the key scientific advances anticipated by the international collaboration behind Hitomi. XARM will recover this science in the shortest time possible by focusing on one of the main science goals of Hitomi,"Resolving astrophysical problems by precise high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy".1 This decision was reached after evaluating the performance of the instruments aboard Hitomi and the mission's initial scientific results, and considering the landscape of planned international X-ray astrophysics missions in 2020's and 2030's. Hitomi opened the door to high-resolution spectroscopy in the X-ray universe. It revealed a number of discrepancies between new observational results and prior theoretical predictions. Yet, the resolution pioneered by Hitomi is also the key to answering these and other fundamental questions. The high spectral resolution realized by XARM will not offer mere refinements; rather, it will enable qualitative leaps in astrophysics and plasma physics. XARM has therefore been given a broad scientific charge: "Revealing material circulation and energy transfer in cosmic plasmas and elucidating evolution of cosmic structures and objects". To fulfill this charge, four categories of science objectives that were defined for Hitomi will also be pursued by XARM; these include (1) Structure formation of the Universe and evolution of clusters of galaxies; (2) Circulation history of baryonic matters in the Universe; (3) Transport and circulation of energy in the Universe; (4) New science with unprecedented high resolution X-ray spectroscopy. In order to achieve these scientific objectives, XARM will carry a 6 × 6 pixelized X-ray micro-calorimeter on the focal plane of an X-ray mirror assembly, and an aligned X-ray CCD camera covering the same energy band and a wider field of view. This paper introduces the science objectives, mission concept, and observing plan of XARM.
AB - The ASTRO-H mission was designed and developed through an international collaboration of JAXA, NASA, ESA, and the CSA. It was successfully launched on February 17, 2016, and then named Hitomi. During the in-orbit verification phase, the on-board observational instruments functioned as expected. The intricate coolant and refrigeration systems for soft X-ray spectrometer (SXS, a quantum micro-calorimeter) and soft X-ray imager (SXI, an X-ray CCD) also functioned as expected. However, on March 26, 2016, operations were prematurely terminated by a series of abnormal events and mishaps triggered by the attitude control system. These errors led to a fatal event: the loss of the solar panels on the Hitomi mission. The X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (or, XARM) is proposed to regain the key scientific advances anticipated by the international collaboration behind Hitomi. XARM will recover this science in the shortest time possible by focusing on one of the main science goals of Hitomi,"Resolving astrophysical problems by precise high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy".1 This decision was reached after evaluating the performance of the instruments aboard Hitomi and the mission's initial scientific results, and considering the landscape of planned international X-ray astrophysics missions in 2020's and 2030's. Hitomi opened the door to high-resolution spectroscopy in the X-ray universe. It revealed a number of discrepancies between new observational results and prior theoretical predictions. Yet, the resolution pioneered by Hitomi is also the key to answering these and other fundamental questions. The high spectral resolution realized by XARM will not offer mere refinements; rather, it will enable qualitative leaps in astrophysics and plasma physics. XARM has therefore been given a broad scientific charge: "Revealing material circulation and energy transfer in cosmic plasmas and elucidating evolution of cosmic structures and objects". To fulfill this charge, four categories of science objectives that were defined for Hitomi will also be pursued by XARM; these include (1) Structure formation of the Universe and evolution of clusters of galaxies; (2) Circulation history of baryonic matters in the Universe; (3) Transport and circulation of energy in the Universe; (4) New science with unprecedented high resolution X-ray spectroscopy. In order to achieve these scientific objectives, XARM will carry a 6 × 6 pixelized X-ray micro-calorimeter on the focal plane of an X-ray mirror assembly, and an aligned X-ray CCD camera covering the same energy band and a wider field of view. This paper introduces the science objectives, mission concept, and observing plan of XARM.
KW - CCD
KW - X-ray
KW - X-ray Astronomy
KW - microcalorimeter
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BT - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018
A2 - Nikzad, Shouleh
A2 - Den Herder, Jan-Willem A.
A2 - Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
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T2 - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Y2 - 10 June 2018 through 15 June 2018
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