A High Resolution Intergalactic Explorer for the Soft X-ray/FUV

Details A High Resolution Intergalactic Explorer for the Soft X-ray/FUV A High Resolution Intergalactic Explorer for the Soft X-ray/FUV

2003-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303444v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Paper presented at the August 2002 SPIE meeting "Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation", Kona, Hawaii

Scientific paper

10.1117/12.461471

We present a mission concept for high resolution X-ray spectroscopy with a resolving power, R~6000, (c.f. R=<1000 for Chandra, XMM-Newton). This resolution is physics-driven, since it allows the thermal widths of coronal X-ray lines to be measured, and astrophysics-driven, since 50 km/s resolves internal galaxy motions, and galaxy motions within larger structures. Such a mission could be small and have a rapid response allowing us to `X-ray the Universe' using the afterglows of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) as strong background sources of X-rays, and so illuminate the `Cosmic Web'. The Cosmic Web is predicted to contain most of the normal matter (baryons) in the nearby Universe.

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