The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory
Creators: name: Takahashi, Tadayuki
name: Mitsuda, Kazuhisa
name: Kelley, Richard
name: Aharonian, Henri AartsFelix
name: Akamatsu, Hiroki
name: Akimoto, Fumie
name: Allen, Steve
name: Anabuki, Naohisa
name: Angelini, Lorella
name: Arnaud, Keith
name: Asai, Makoto
name: Audard, Marc
name: Awaki, Hisamitsu
name: Azzarello, Philipp
name: Baluta, Chris
name: Bamba, Aya
name: Bando, Nobutaka
name: Bautz, Mark
name: Blandford, Roger
name: Boyce, Kevin
name: Brown, Greg
name: Cackett, Ed
name: Chernyakova, Maria
name: Coppi, Paolo
name: Costantini, Elisa
name: de Plaa, Jelle
name: Herder, Jan-Willem den
name: DiPirro, Michael
name: Done, Chris
name: Dotani, Tadayasu
name: Doty, John
name: Ebisawa, Ken
name: Eckart, Megan
name: Enoto, Teruaki
name: Ezoe, Yuichiro
name: Fabian, Andrew
name: Ferrigno, Carlo
name: Foster, Adam
name: Fujimoto, Ryuichi
name: Fukazawa, Yasushi
name: Funk, Stefan
name: Furuzawa, Akihiro
name: Galeazzi, Massimiliano
name: Gallo, Luigi
name: Gandhi, Poshak
name: Gendreau, Keith
name: Gilmore, Kirk
name: Haas, Daniel
name: Haba, Yoshito
name: Hamaguchi, Kenji
name: Hatsukade, Isamu
name: Hayashi, Takayuki
name: Hayashida, Kiyoshi
name: Hiraga, Junko
name: Hirose, Kazuyuki
name: Hornschemeier, Ann
name: Hoshino, Akio
name: Hughes, John
name: Hwang, Una
name: Iizuka, Ryo
name: Inoue, Yoshiyuki
name: Ishibashi, Kazunori
name: Ishida, Manabu
name: Ishimura, Kosei
name: Ishisaki, Yoshitaka
name: Ito, Masayuki
name: Iwata, Naoko
name: Iyomoto, Naoko
name: Kaastra, Jelle
name: Kallman, Timothy
name: Kamae, Tuneyoshi
name: Kataoka, Jun
name: Katsuda, Satoru
name: Kawahara, Hajime
name: Kawaharada, Madoka
name: Kawai, Nobuyuki
name: Kawasaki, Shigeo
name: Khangaluyan, Dmitry
name: Kilbourne, Caroline
name: Kimura, Masashi
name: Kinugasa, Kenzo
name: Kitamoto, Shunji
name: Kitayama, Tetsu
name: Kohmura, Takayoshi
name: Kokubun, Motohide
name: Kosaka, Tatsuro
name: Koujelev, Alex
name: Koyama, Katsuji
name: Krimm, Hans
name: Kubota, Aya
name: Kunieda, Hideyo
name: LaMassa, Stephanie
name: Laurent, Philippe
name: Lebrun, Francois
name: Leutenegger, Maurice
name: Limousin, Olivier
name: Loewenstein, Michael
name: Long, Knox
name: Lumb, David
name: Madejski, Grzegorz
name: Maeda, Yoshitomo
name: Makishima, Kazuo
name: Marchand, Genevieve
name: Markevitch, Maxim
name: Matsumoto, Hironori
name: Matsushita, Kyoko
name: McCammon, Dan
name: McNamara, Brian
name: Miller, Jon
name: Miller, Eric
name: Mineshige, Shin
name: Minesugi, Kenji
name: Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki
name: Miyazawa, Takuya
name: Mizuno, Tsunefumi
name: Mori, Hideyuki
name: Mori, Koji
name: Mukai, Koji
name: Murakami, Toshio
name: Murakami, Hiroshi
name: Mushotzky, Richard
name: Nagano, Housei
name: Nagino, Ryo
name: Nakagawa, Takao
name: Nakajima, Hiroshi
name: Nakamori, Takeshi
name: Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
name: Namba, Yoshiharu
name: Natsukari, Chikara
name: Nishioka, Yusuke
name: Nobukawa, Masayoshi
name: Nomachi, Masaharu
name: Dell, Steve O'
name: Odaka, Hirokazu
name: Ogawa, Hiroyuki
name: Ogawa, Mina
name: Ogi, Keiji
name: Ohashi, Takaya
name: Ohno, Masanori
name: Ohta, Masayuki
name: Okajima, Takashi
name: Okamoto, Atsushi
name: Okazaki, Tsuyoshi
name: Ota, Naomi
name: Ozaki, Masanobu
name: Paerels, Frits
name: Paltani, Stephane
name: Parmar, Arvind
name: Petre, Robert
name: Pohl, Martin
name: Porter, F. Scott
name: Ramsey, Brian
name: Reis, Rubens
name: Reynolds, Christopher
name: Russell, Helen
name: Safi-Harb, Samar
name: Sakai, Shin-ichiro
name: Sameshima, Hiroaki
name: Sanders, Jeremy
name: Sato, Goro
name: Sato, Rie
name: Sato, Yoichi
name: Sato, Kosuke
name: Sawada, Makoto
name: Serlemitsos, Peter
name: Seta, Hiromi
name: Shibano, Yasuko
name: Shida, Maki
name: Shimada, Takanobu
name: Shinozaki, Keisuke
name: Shirron, Peter
name: Simionescu, Aurora
name: Simmons, Cynthia
name: Smith, Randall
name: Sneiderman, Gary
name: Soong, Yang
name: Stawarz, Lukasz
name: Sugawara, Yasuharu
name: Sugita, Hiroyuki
name: Sugita, Satoshi
name: Szymkowiak, Andrew
name: Tajima, Hiroyasu
name: Takahashi, Hiromitsu
name: Takeda, Shin-ichiro
name: Takei, Yoh
name: Tamagawa, Toru
name: Tamura, Takayuki
name: Tamura, Keisuke
name: Tanaka, Takaaki
name: Tanaka, Yasuo
name: Tashiro, Makoto
name: Tawara, Yuzuru
name: Terada, Yukikatsu
name: Terashima, Yuichi
name: Tombesi, Francesco
name: Tomida, Hiroshi
name: Tsuboi, Yoko
name: Tsujimoto, Masahiro
name: Tsunemi, Hiroshi
name: Tsuru, Takeshi
name: Uchida, Hiroyuki
name: Uchiyama, Yasunobu
name: Uchiyama, Hideki
name: Ueda, Yoshihiro
name: Ueno, Shiro
name: Uno, Shinichiro
name: Urry, Meg
name: Ursino, Eugenio
name: de Vries, Cor
name: Wada, Atsushi
name: Watanabe, Shin
name: Werner, Norbert
name: White, Nicholas
name: Yamada, Takahiro
name: Yamada, Shinya
name: Yamaguchi, Hiroya
name: Yamasaki, Noriko
name: Yamauchi, Shigeo
name: Yamauchi, Makoto
name: Yatsu, Yoichi
name: Yonetoku, Daisuke
name: Yoshida, Atsumasa
name: Yuasa, Takayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will investigate the physics of the high-energy universe via a suite of four instruments, covering a very wide energy range, from 0.3 keV to 600 keV. These instruments include a high-resolution, high-throughput spectrometer sensitive over 0.3-2 keV with high spectral resolution of Delta E &lt; 7 eV, enabled by a micro-calorimeter array located in the focal plane of thin-foil X-ray optics; hard X-ray imaging spectrometers covering 5-80 keV, located in the focal plane of multilayer-coated, focusing hard X-ray mirrors; a wide-field imaging spectrometer sensitive over 0.4-12 keV, with an X-ray CCD camera in the focal plane of a soft X-ray telescope; and a non-focusing Compton-camera type soft gamma-ray detector, sensitive in the 40-600 keV band. The simultaneous broad bandpass, coupled with high spectral resolution, will enable the pursuit of a wide variety of important science themes.
description: 22 pages, 17 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray"