Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21725413m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #254.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Physics
Scientific paper
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), scheduled for launch in February 2012, will open the high energy extragalactic sky in the 5 - 80 keV band to sensitive study for the first time. The baseline 2-year mission includes a mixture of field surveys and targeted observations of known sources. A deep, several-month campaign observing the COSMOS and GOODS fields will significantly enhance our understanding of the sources contributing to the X-ray background at its 30 keV peak. In particular, models predict a population of heavily-obscured AGN, undetected in the soft X-rays, that will be seen in the hard X-ray observations of NuSTAR. Targeted observations include high energy studies of galaxy clusters to constrain non-thermal X-ray emission, coordinated blazar monitoring campaigns, observations of local starburst galaxies, and detailed studies of well-known AGN in order to study the physics of their high energy emission.
Madsen Kristin
NuSTAR Team
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