Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-01-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Proc. of the workshop "Simbol-X: The hard X-ray universe in focus", Bologna 14-16 May, 2007
Scientific paper
Simbol-X is a French-Italian mission, with a participation of German laboratories, for X-ray astronomy in the wide 0.5-80 keV band. Taking advantage of emerging technology in mirror manufacturing and spacecraft formation flying, Simbol-X will push grazing incidence imaging up to ~80 keV, providing an improvement of roughly three orders of magnitude in sensitivity and angular resolution compared to all instruments that have operated so far above 10 keV. This will open a new window in X-ray astronomy, allowing breakthrough studies on black hole physics and census and particle acceleration mechanisms. We describe briefly the main scientific goals of the Simbol-X mission, giving a few examples aimed at highlighting key issues of the Simbol-X design.
Arnaud Monique
Briel Ulrich
Cappi Massimo
Ceca Roberto Della
Comastri Andrea
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