Current status of ASTRO-H Hard X-ray telescopes (HXTs)

Hisamitsu Awaka; Hideyo Kunieda; Akihiro Furuzawa; Yoshito Haba; Takayuki Hayashi; Ryo Iizuka; Kazunori Ishibashi; Manabu Ishida; Masayuki Itoh; Tatsuro Kosaka; Yoshitomo Maeda; Hironori Matsumoto; Takuya Miyazawa; Hideyuki Mori; Hosei Nagano; Yoshiharu Namba; Yasushi Ogasaka; Keiji Ogi; Takashi Okajima; Satoshi Sugita; Yoshio Suzuki; Keisuke Tamura; Yuzuru Tawara; Kentato Uesugi; Koujun Yamashita; Shigeo Yamauchi

doi:10.1117/12.926753

Current status of ASTRO-H Hard X-ray telescopes (HXTs)

Hisamitsu Awaka, Hideyo Kunieda, Akihiro Furuzawa, Yoshito Haba, Takayuki Hayashi, Ryo Iizuka, Kazunori Ishibashi, Manabu Ishida, Masayuki Itoh, Tatsuro Kosaka, Yoshitomo Maeda, Hironori Matsumoto, Takuya Miyazawa, Hideyuki Mori, Hosei Nagano, Yoshiharu Namba, Yasushi Ogasaka, Keiji Ogi, Takashi Okajima, Satoshi SugitaYoshio Suzuki, Keisuke Tamura, Yuzuru Tawara, Kentato Uesugi, Koujun Yamashita, Shigeo Yamauchi

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ASTRO-H is an international X-ray mission of ISAS/JAXA, which will be launched in 2014. One of the main characteristics of ASTRO-H is imaging spectroscopy in the hard X-ray band above 10 keV. ASTRO-H will carry two identical Hard X-ray telescopes (HXTs), whose mirror surfaces are coated with Pt/C depth-graded multilayers to enhance hard X-ray effective area up to 80 keV. HXT was designed based on the telescope on board the SUMIT balloon borne experiment. After feasibility study of the HXT design, the FM design has been deteremined. Mass production of the mirror shells at Nagoya University has been going on since August 2010, and production of mirror shells for HXT-1 was completed in March 2012. After the integation of X-ray mirrors for HXT-1, we measured hard X-ray performance of selected mirror shells for HXT-1 at a synchrotron radiation facility, SPring-8 beamline BL20B2. We will perform environment tests and ground calibarations at SPring-8 for HXT-1. In HXT-2, foil production is going on.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926753
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 01-07-2012 → 06-07-2012

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8443
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	01-07-12 → 06-07-12

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Awaka, H., Kunieda, H., Furuzawa, A., Haba, Y., Hayashi, T., Iizuka, R., Ishibashi, K., Ishida, M., Itoh, M., Kosaka, T., Maeda, Y., Matsumoto, H., Miyazawa, T., Mori, H., Nagano, H., Namba, Y., Ogasaka, Y., Ogi, K., Okajima, T., ... Yamauchi, S. (2012). Current status of ASTRO-H Hard X-ray telescopes (HXTs). In Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article 844324 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8443). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926753

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Current status of ASTRO-H Hard X-ray telescopes (HXTs). / Awaka, Hisamitsu; Kunieda, Hideyo; Furuzawa, Akihiro et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. 2012. 844324 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8443).

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