The ASTRO-H X-ray Astronomy Satellite

• Published in: arXiv.org 2014-12
• Main Authors: Mitsuda, Kazuhisa, Arnaud, Keith, Asai, Makoto, Baluta, Chris, Bamba, Aya, Blandford, Roger, Boyce, Kevin, Brenneman, Laura, Chernyakova, Maria, Chiao, Meng, Coppi, Paolo, Costantini, Elisa, DiPirro, Michael, Enoto, Teruaki, Fukazawa, Yasushi, Furuzawa, Akihiro, Galeazzi, Massimiliano, Gilmore, Kirk, Haas, Daniel, Hamaguchi, Kenji, Hwang, Una, Ishibashi, Kazunori, Ishikawa, Kumi, Ishimura, Kosei, Ito, Masayuki, Iwata, Naoko, Iyomoto, Naoko, Jewell, Chris, Kaastra, Jelle, Kallman, Timothy, Kawai, Nobuyuki, Kawasaki, Shigeo, Khangulyan, Dmitry, Kimura, Masashi, Kitamoto, Shunji, Kokubun, Motohide, Koujelev, Alex, Koyama, Katsuji, Kunieda, Hideyo, Laurent, Philippe, Leutenegger, Maurice, Madejski, Grzegorz, Markevitch, Maxim, Masters, Candace, Matsumoto, Hironori, McCammon, Dan, Miko, Joseph, Muench, Theodore, Murakami, Toshio, Nakagawa, Takao, Nakajima, Hiroshi, Nakashima, Shinya, Namba, Yoshiharu, Natsukari, Chikara, Nomachi, Masaharu, O' Dell, Steve, Ogawa, Hiroyuki, Ogawa, Mina, Okajima, Takashi, Ota, Naomi, Paltani, St'ephane, Pontius, James, Reis, Rubens, Reynolds, Christopher, Ricci, Claudio, Russell, Helen, Safi-Harb, Samar, Sakai, Shin-ichiro, Sameshima, Hiroaki, Sato, Yoichi, Sato, Kosuke, Sato, Rie, Sawada, Makoto, Serlemitsos, Peter, Seta, Hiromi, Maki Shida, Shinozaki, Keisuke, Smith, Randall, Soong, Yang, Stawarz, Lukasz, Takahashi, Hiroaki, Takei, Yoh, Tamagawa, Toru, Tamura, Takayuki, Tanaka, Takaaki, Terashima, Yuichi, Tsujimoto, Masahiro, Tsuru, Takeshi, Uchiyama, Yasunobu, Ueda, Yoshihiro, Ueda, Shutaro, Ueno, Shiro, Urry, Meg, Wada, Atsushi, Watanabe, Tomomi, Yamada, Takahiro, Yonetoku, Daisuke, Yuasa, Takayuki, Zoghbi, Abderahmen, ZuHone, John
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Acceleration; Astronomy; Cosmic rays; Dark matter; Energy resolution; Galactic clusters; Galaxies; Galaxy distribution; Large scale structure of the universe; Rocket launches; Soft x rays; Space missions; Spectral resolution; Universe; X-rays
• ISSN: 2331-8422
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.1356

The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), with a planned launch in 2015. The ASTRO-H mission is equipped with a suite of sensitive instruments with the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 3 keV and a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft X-rays to gamma-rays. The simultaneous broad band pass, coupled with the high spectral resolution of Delta E < 7 eV of the micro-calorimeter, will enable a wide variety of important science themes to be pursued. ASTRO-H is expected to provide breakthrough results in scientific areas as diverse as the large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution, the behavior of matter in the gravitational strong field regime, the physical conditions in sites of cosmic-ray acceleration, and the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters at different redshifts.