Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission: Imaging the Hard X-ray Sky

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Aug 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004head....8.4105h&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #8, #41.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1207

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NuSTAR, a NASA's SMEX mission currently undergoing a Phase A study to be deployed at the end of the decade into an low-Earth equatorial orbit, will be the first highly-sensitive, focusing telescope to image the hard X-ray (8 - 80 keV) sky. NuSTAR's instrumentation approach is based on mature, developed technology, yet its unprecedented combination of sensitivity, angular and spectral resolution will enable it to carry out a number of high priority scientific investigations, including: 1) taking a census of black holes on all scales, achieved through deep, wide-field surveys of extragalactic fields and the Galactic center, 2) mapping recently-synthesized material in 44Ti in young supernova remnants to constrain nucleosynthesis and explosion models, and 3) studying the spectra and time-variability in the most extreme AGN. NuSTAR will team with GLAST to observe extreme phenomena, provide timely follow-up for Spitzer and Chandra, and, through a series of wide-area surveys, be a pathfinder for Constellation-X. In addition to its core science program, NuSTAR will offer opportunities for a broad range of science investigations, with priorities established through community peer review.

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