The NeXT X-ray Telescope system: Status update

Yasushi Ogasaka; Hideyo Kunieda; Takuya Miyazawa; Peter Serlemitsos; Yang Soong; Takashi Oka Jima; Yoshitomo Maeda; Hideyuki Mori; Manabu Ishida; Hisamitsu Awaki; Akihiro Furuzawa; Yoshiharu Namba; Kentato Uesugi; Yoshio Suzuki; Yoshito Haba; Keisuke Tamura; Hiroshi Tsunemi; Koujun Yamashita; Masayuki Ito

doi:10.1117/12.788736

The NeXT X-ray Telescope system: Status update

Yasushi Ogasaka, Hideyo Kunieda, Takuya Miyazawa, Peter Serlemitsos, Yang Soong, Takashi Oka Jima, Yoshitomo Maeda, Hideyuki Mori, Manabu Ishida, Hisamitsu Awaki, Akihiro Furuzawa, Yoshiharu Namba, Kentato Uesugi, Yoshio Suzuki, Yoshito Haba, Keisuke Tamura, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Koujun Yamashita, Masayuki Ito

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Japan's NeXT mission has been approved for the Phase-A in 2007. At present NeXT is in the process of transition to the Phase-B. One of the unique feature of the mission is an imaging spectroscopy in unprecedentedly wide energy region from 0.5 to 80 keV. The X-ray Telescope (XRT) system covers the energy region by means of grazing incidence reflective optics. International collaboration has been formed for the project and design and basic study have been carried out so far. Current baseline specification includes two hard X-ray telescopes which are combined with the Hard X-ray Imager (Si + CdTe pixel or strip) and cover 5 to 80 keV, and two soft X-ray telescopes which cover 0.3 to about 20 keV, one combined with a high resolution X-ray micro-calorimeter and the other with an X-ray CCD. Both of hard and soft X-ray mirrors employ same optical design; tightly-nested, conically-approximated thin-foil Wolter-I optics. The mission requirements for XRT system have been identified as 300 cm² at 30 keV for the hard X-ray telescope in total and 400 cm² at 6 keV for the soft X-ray telescope per unit. The requirement on the point spread function is 1.7 arcmin in HPD, as well as the goal being 1.2 arcmin. Based on the current level of technology all the mission requirements are expected to be satisfied.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788736
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Marseille, France Duration: 23-06-2008 → 28-06-2008

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7011
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	France
City	Marseille
Period	23-06-08 → 28-06-08

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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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Ogasaka, Y., Kunieda, H., Miyazawa, T., Serlemitsos, P., Soong, Y., Jima, T. O., Maeda, Y., Mori, H., Ishida, M., Awaki, H., Furuzawa, A., Namba, Y., Uesugi, K., Suzuki, Y., Haba, Y., Tamura, K., Tsunemi, H., Yamashita, K., & Ito, M. (2008). The NeXT X-ray Telescope system: Status update. In Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article 70110P (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7011). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788736

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