Kronos: a satellite for astrotomography

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Mar 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004an....325..257p&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.325, Issue 3, p.257-257

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Kronos, a Medium Explorer concept, is designed to initiate a new era in astrophysics, fully opening the domain of time by enabling extended simultaneous multiwavelength (X-ray, UV, and optical) spectroscopic monitoring of variable accretion-driven sources. The primary design goal of the mission is to obtain high-fidelity velocity-delay maps of the broad-line region in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and thus determine the geometry and structure of AGNs on microarcsecond scales. Doppler tomography and eclipse mapping techniques will be used to characterize and map Galactic binary systems, revealing the details of the physics of accretion processes in black hole, neutron star, and white dwarf binary systems. The high-Earth orbit of Kronos enables well-sampled, high time-resolution observations, critical for the innovative and sophisticated methods that are used to understand the accretion flows, mass outflows, jets, and other phenomena found in accreting sources.

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