The High Resolution X-ray Spectrometer, SXS, on the Astro-H mission

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Sep 2009

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"High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy: Towards IXO, Proceedings of the international workshop held at the Mullard Space Science La

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We will present the science and an overview of the the Soft X-ray Spectrometer onboard the Astro-H mission (formerly known as NeXT). The SXS consists of X-ray focussing mirrors and a microcalorimeter array and is developed by international collaboration lead by JAXA and NASA. The effective area of the instrument will be 290 cm^2 at 6 keV; by a factor of about two larger than that of the X-ray microcalorimeter on board Suzaku. The baseline detector is a 6x6 format array which covers a 2.8 x 2.8 arcmin^2 filed of view, while a larger format array of 8x8 format is being developed. We expect an energy resolution of 6 eV (FWHM) or better at 6 keV. One of the main scientific objectives of the SXS is to determine turbulent and/or macroscopic velocities in the hot gas of clusters of galaxies up to z ~ 1.

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