APEX, the Astrophysical Plasmadynamic EXplorer: An EUV High Resolution Spectroscopic Observatory

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Jan 2005

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Highlights of Astronomy, Vol. 13, as presented at the XXVth General Assembly of the IAU - 2003 [Sydney, Australia, 13 - 26 July

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The termination of the EUVE mission has left a hole in spectral coverage at crucial EUV wavelengths (~70-600 Å) where hot (0.1-10 MK) plasmas radiate most strongly and produce critical spectral diagnostics often not available at other wavelengths. CHIPS will fill this hole only partially as it is optimized for diffuse emission and has only moderate resolution (R~150). For discrete sources we have successfully flown on a sounding rocket a follow-on instrument to the EUVE spectrometer (Aeff ~1 cm2 R ~400) the high-resolution spectrometer J-PEX (Aeff ~3 cm2 R ~3000). An upgraded version with higher resolution and effective area has been approved for another rocket flight. Here we build on the J-PEX prototype and present a proposed design for an orbiting spectroscopic observatory APEX a SMEX-class instrument containing a suite of spectrometers that together achieve both high effective area (>20 cm2) and high spectral resolution (>10000) in the EUV. We discuss instrumental characteristics such as optical design wavelength coverage resolution and effective area. We also summarize science objectives for observations of stellar coronae accretion phenomena in cataclysmic variables and extragalactic objects white dwarfs and the interstellar medium.

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