Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997ngxo.conf..203g&link_type=abstract
The Next Generation of X Ray Observatories, p. 203
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
X Ray Telescopes, X Ray Astronomy, Space Missions, Grazing Incidence Telescopes, Angular Resolution, Wavelengths, Sensitivity, Gamma Rays, Germanium, Charge Coupled Devices, Detection
Scientific paper
The Hard X Ray Telescope (HXT) was selected for study as a possible new intermediate size mission for the early 21st century. Its principal attributes are: (1) multiwavelength observing with a system of focussing telescopes that collectively observe from the UV to over 1 MeV, (2) much higher sensitivity and much better angular resolution in the 10100 keV band, and (3) higher sensitivity for detecting gamma ray lines of known energy in the 100 keV to 1 MeV band. The institutions collaborating in the study are: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Marshall Space Flight Center, Naval Research Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, Argonne National Laboratory, Danish Space Research Institute, Osservatorio Astronomica di Brera (Merate), and Centre d'Etudes Spatiale des Rayonnements (Toulouse). The instrumentation includes several grazing incidence double conical telescopes with multilayer coatings that focus up to 100 keV and a single Laue crystal telescope that functions to 1 MeV. The detectors are CCDs, and germanium, and/or CdZnTe position sensitive arrays.
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