The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) x-ray astronomy satellite

Tadayuki Takahashi, M. Kokubun, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard L. Kelley, Takaya Ohashi, F. Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu, Fumie Akimoto, S. W. Allen, Naohisa Anabuki, L. Angelini, Keith A. Arnaud, Makoto Asai, M. Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki, M. Axelsson, P. Azzarello, Chris Baluta, Aya Bamba, Nobutaka Bando, Marshall W. Bautz, Thomas G. Bialas, R. D. Blandford, K. R. Boyce, Laura Brenneman, G. V. Brown, Esra Bülbül, Edward Cackett, Edgar R. Canavan, M. Chernyakova, Meng P. Chiao, P. Coppi, Elisa Costantini, J. de Plaa, Jan‐Willem den Herder, Michael DiPirro, Chris Done, Tadayasu Dotani, J. Doty, Ken Ebisawa, Megan E. Eckart, Teruaki Enoto, Yuichiro Ezoe, A. C. Fabian, C. Ferrigno, Adam Foster, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Yasushi Fukazawa, Akihiro Furuzawa, M. Galeazzi, Luigi Gallo, P. Gandhi, K. Gilmore, M. Giustini, A. Goldwurm, Liyi Gu, M. Guainazzi, Daniel Haas, Yoshito Haba, Kouichi Hagino, Kenji Hamaguchi, Atsushi Harayama, I. Harrus, Isamu Hatsukade, Takayuki Hayashi, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Junko S. Hiraga, Kazuyuki Hirose, A. E. Hornschemeier, Akio Hoshino, John P. Hughes, Yuto Ichinohe, Ryo Iizuka, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Hajime Inoue, Kazunori Ishibashi, M. Ishida, Kumi Ishikawa, Kosei Ishimura, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Masayuki Itoh, Naoko Iwata, Naoko Iyomoto, C. Jewell, J. S. Kaastra, T. R. Kallman, T. Kamae, Erin Kara, J. Kataoka, Satoru Katsuda, J. Katsuta, Madoka Kawaharada, N. Kawai, Taro Kawano, Shigeo Kawasaki, D. Khangulyan, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Mark O. Kimball, Ashley L. King

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2016

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Summary

The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft X-rays to gamma-rays. After a successful launch on 2016 February 17, the spacecraft lost its function on 2016 March 26, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the on-board instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instrum

Source type: Peer-reviewed study
DOI: 10.1117/12.2232379
Catalogue ID: BFmoakvhek-x35n99

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