Paper
13 June 2006 The new XEUS science case
G. Hasinger, M. Arnaud, X. Barcons, D. Barret, J. A. Bleeker, H. Böhringer, A. Comastri, A. C. Fabian, J. S. Kaastra, H. Kunieda, M. Mendez, A. N. Parmar, G. G. C. Palumbo, T. Takahashi, M. J. L. Turner
Author Affiliations +
Abstract
XEUS is the potential successor to ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory and is being proposed in response to the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 long term plan for ESA's Science Programme. A new mission configuration was developed in the last year, accommodating the boundary conditions of a European-led mission with a formation-flying mirror and detector spacecraft in L2 with a focal length of 35m and an effective area of >5 m2 at 1 keV. Here the new capabilities are compared with the key scientific questions presented to the Cosmic Vision exercise: the evolution of large scale structure and nucleosynthesis, the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, and the study of matter under extreme conditions.
© (2006) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
G. Hasinger, M. Arnaud, X. Barcons, D. Barret, J. A. Bleeker, H. Böhringer, A. Comastri, A. C. Fabian, J. S. Kaastra, H. Kunieda, M. Mendez, A. N. Parmar, G. G. C. Palumbo, T. Takahashi, and M. J. L. Turner "The new XEUS science case", Proc. SPIE 6266, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation II: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 62661N (13 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672919
Lens.org Logo
CITATIONS
Cited by 7 scholarly publications.
Advertisement
Advertisement
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission  Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace
KEYWORDS
X-rays

Galactic astronomy

Iron

Stars

Sensors

Absorption

Observatories

RELATED CONTENT


Back to Top