InFOCμS: A Balloon Instrument with <10 Arc Second Hard X-ray Imaging

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Mar 2012

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American Physical Society, APS April Meeting 2012, March 31-Apr 3, 2012, abstract #K1.088

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The International Focusing Optics Collaboration for μCrab Sensitivity (InFOCμS) is currently funded to develop balloon payload with a multilayer hard X-ray telescope based on slumped glass technology similar to NuSTAR, but fully utilizing the IXO technology to achieve a spatial resolution of <10 arcseconds (PSF area <1/25 of NuSTAR). The key science goal for this technology is a deep hard X-ray survey to understand role of AGN/black holes in the formation of galaxies. Due to obscuration, this can only be achieved in the hard X-ray band, where absorption is insignificant and that only hard X-ray measurements can unambiguously determine the luminosities of individual AGN. InFOCμS will demonstrate the technology necessary to resolve the cosmic hard X-ray background missed by NuSTAR, which can only resolve 45-65% of the background due to source confusion, and make a complete census of black hole growth at the peak of their formation between z=0.5 and z=2. We will present our approach to high spatial resolution hard X-ray imaging at low cost, which will be demonstrated by a resolved image of the Crab Nebula from a balloon and can be scaled to a deep-survey Explorer mission. InFOCμS is being prepared for a flight in the fall of 2013.

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