Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008head...10.3606g&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #10, #36.06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Simbol-X is a hard X-ray mission, operating in the 0.5-80 keV range, proposed as a collaboration between the French and Italian space agencies with participation of German laboratories. A possible US Intitutions has been proposed in the context of the NASA mission of opportunity call. The launch is foreseen in late 2013. Relying on two spacecrafts in a formation flying configuration, Simbol-X uses for the first time a 20 m focal length X-ray mirror to focus X-rays with energy above 10 keV, resulting in over two orders of magnitude improvement in angular resolution and sensitivity in the hard X-ray range with respect to non-focusing techniques. The Simbol-X revolutionary instrumental capabilities will allow us to elucidate outstanding questions in high energy astrophysics such as those related to black-holes accretion physics and census, and to particle acceleration mechanisms. Simbol--X has been selected for a phase A study which is jointly conducted by CNES and ASI. We give in this paper a general overview of the mission, as consolidated close to the end of the phase A.
Giommi Paolo
Simbol-X Collaboration
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