تقرير
High-resolution x-ray telescopes
| العنوان: | High-resolution x-ray telescopes |
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| المؤلفون: | O'Dell, S. L., Brissenden, R. J., Davis, W. N., Elsner, R. F., Elvis, M., Freeman, M., Gaetz, T., Gorenstein, P., Gubarev, M. V., Jerius, D., Juda, M., Kolodziejczak, J. J., Murray, S., Petre, R., Podgorski, W., Ramsey, B. D., Reid, P. B., Saha, T., Schwartz, D. A., Trolier-McKinstry, S., Weisskopf, M. C., Wilke, R. H. T., Wolk, S., Zhang, W. W. |
| سنة النشر: | 2010 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| الوصف: | High-energy astrophysics is a relatively young scientific field, made possible by space-borne telescopes. During the half-century history of x-ray astronomy, the sensitivity of focusing x-ray telescopes-through finer angular resolution and increased effective area-has improved by a factor of a 100 million. This technological advance has enabled numerous exciting discoveries and increasingly detailed study of the high-energy universe-including accreting (stellar-mass and super-massive) black holes, accreting and isolated neutron stars, pulsar-wind nebulae, shocked plasma in supernova remnants, and hot thermal plasma in clusters of galaxies. As the largest structures in the universe, galaxy clusters constitute a unique laboratory for measuring the gravitational effects of dark matter and of dark energy. Here, we review the history of high-resolution x-ray telescopes and highlight some of the scientific results enabled by these telescopes. Next, we describe the planned next-generation x-ray-astronomy facility-the International X-ray Observatory (IXO). We conclude with an overview of a concept for the next next-generation facility-Generation X. The scientific objectives of such a mission will require very large areas (about 10000 m2) of highly-nested lightweight grazing-incidence mirrors with exceptional (about 0.1-arcsecond) angular resolution. Achieving this angular resolution with lightweight mirrors will likely require on-orbit adjustment of alignment and figure. Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures, SPIE Conference 7803 "Adaptive X-ray Optics", part of SPIE Optics+Photonics 2010, San Diego CA, 2010 August 2-5 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.862315 |
| الوصول الحر: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.4892Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.1010.4892 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.862315 |
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