An Extreme Physics MIDEX

Details An Extreme Physics MIDEX An Extreme Physics MIDEX

Jul 2004

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X-RAY TIMING 2003: Rossie and Beyond. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 714, pp. 459-462 (2004).

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X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation, Spaceborne And Space Research Instruments, Apparatus, And Components, X- And Gamma-Ray Sources, Mirrors, Gratings, And Detectors

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A moderate sized mission to use bright X-ray sources as physics labs is described. A combination of microchannel plate optics and a 32×32 pixel microcalorimeter would allow the successor to the Rossi XTE to explore new domains of spectroscopic timing in a MIDEX class mission. With ~10 times the area and ~100 times the spectral resolution of the PCA (and 10 times that of silicon detectors) such a mission would be able to explore spectral line shifts in magnetars, neutron stars and black holes. Adding a polarimeter would create a powerful and unique capability. Such a mission would make numerous tests of basic physics, both quantum electrodynamics/chromodynamics (QED/QCD) and general relativity.

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