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Tier 4 — Narrative / commentaryConference paper

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

This paper is not relevant to Vitagri's Pulse Brain catalogue. It describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) x-ray astronomy satellite mission, a Japanese-led international collaboration launched in February 2016. The paper documents the spacecraft's design, capabilities, instruments, and performance during its brief operational commissioning phase before loss of function in March 2016. This is a space physics/instrumentation paper with no connection to farming systems, soil health, nutrient density, or human nutrition.

UK applicability

Not applicable. This record concerns x-ray astronomy satellite technology and has no relevance to UK agricultural, nutritional, or food systems research.

Theme
General food systems / other
Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Study type
Commentary
Study design
Conference paper
Source type
Conference paper
Status
Published
Geography
International
System type
Other
DOI
10.1117/12.2232379
Catalogue ID
BFmohg5fgd-x8fwit

Topic tags

x-ray astronomyspace missioninstrumentationastrophysics
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