The X-ray Astronomy Satellite ASTRO-H
Pre-published on:
February 10, 2017
Published on:
May 23, 2017
Abstract
ASTRO-H is the 6th Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite having been developed under a vast collaboration of the international X-ray astronomy community. The Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) onboard ASTRO-H can realize fine X-ray spectroscopy with energy resolution of more than 20 times as good as the standard X-ray detector CCD. Since the SXS is a non-dispersive detector, it works not only for point sources but also for diffuse X-ray sources. The advent of the SXS is believed to open up a new era in the field of X-ray spectroscopy. The other main instrument, the hard X-ray imager, will have a larger effective area than NuSTAR, although spatial resolution is somewhat limited. The integration and all the tests of ASTRO-H spacecraft has already been finished. The spacecraft is ready to be shipped to the launch site: Tanegashima Space Center. After the launch site operation to be started in early December 2015, ASTRO-H will be launched by the end of 2016 March.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.255.0073
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