Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005exa....20..483d&link_type=abstract
Experimental Astronomy, Volume 20, Issue 1-3, pp. 483-495
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4
Space System, Astrophysics, Gamma Ray Imaging, Pre-Project Study
Scientific paper
In 2004 CNES decided to perform 4 phase 0 studies dedicated to Astrophysics and achieved thanks to Formation Flying space systems: ASPICS (A Solar Physics Mission to observe in UV and Visible the Solar Corona between 1.01 and 3.2 Solar Radius), PEGASE (an IR interferometry mission to observe Hot Jupiter, Brown Dwarfs and Proto planetary disks), SIMBOL-X (hard X-rays telescope to observe: Accretion onto compact objects, Black Holes, obscured Galactic Nuclei, ˙˙˙˙) and MAX (a Nuclear Astrophysics Mission to observe: Supernovae, Neutron Stars,˙). For this last mission, presented here, two spectral bands around important gamma-ray lines have been selected (450 530 and 800 900 keV). The formation flight allows to realise a long focal length of 80 90 m which is necessary to build a reasonably sized gamma-ray telescope based on a Laue crystal lens. The Space System design allows to have a good spacecrafts mass margin in High Elliptical Orbit with a Soyuz launch (Initial Orbit: Perigee altitude ˜44,000 km and Apogee altitude ˜253,000 km).
No associations
LandOfFree
MAX: Formation flying for nuclear astrophysics does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with MAX: Formation flying for nuclear astrophysics, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and MAX: Formation flying for nuclear astrophysics will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1431957