MASSIM, the Milli-Arc-Second Structure Imager

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Mar 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008head...10.3709s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #10, #37.09

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Optics

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The MASSIM (Milli-Arc-Second Structure Imager) mission will use a set of achromatic diffractive-refractive Fresnel lenses to achieve imaging in the X-ray band with unprecedented angular resolution. It has been proposed for study within the context of NASA's "Astrophysics Strategic Mission Concept Studies” program. Lenses on an optics spacecraft will focus 5-11 keV X-rays onto detectors on a second spacecraft flying in formation 1000 km away. It will have a point-source sensitivity comparable with that of the current generation of major X-ray observatories (Chandra, XMM-Newton) but an angular resolution some three orders of magnitude better. MASSIM is optimized for the study of jets and other phenomena that occur in the immediate vicinity of black holes and neutron stars. It can also be used for studying other phenomena on the milli-arc-second scale, such as those involving proto-stars, the surfaces and surroundings of nearby active stars and interacting winds.

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