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D. Willingale

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The NHXM observatory

2011

Exploration of the X-ray sky has established X-ray astronomy as a fundamental astrophysical discipline. While our knowledge of the sky below 10 keV has increased dramatically (∼8 orders of magnitude) by use of grazing incidence optics, we still await a similar improvement above 10 keV, where to date only collimated instruments have been used. Also ripe for exploration is the field of X-ray polarimetry, an unused fundamental tool to understand the physics and morphology of X-ray sources. Here we present a novel mission, the New Hard X-ray Mission (NHXM) that brings together for the first time simultaneous high-sensitivity, hard-X-ray imaging, broadband spectroscopy and polarimetry. NHXM will…

Black-holesAcceleration mechanismCosmic Visionmedia_common.quotation_subjectPolarimetry7. Clean energy01 natural sciencesMissionsCosmologyPhysical cosmologyNon-thermal emissionAcceleration mechanism; Accretion physics; Black-holes; Compact objects; Cosmology; Missions; Non-thermal emission; X-ray imaging; X-ray polarimetry; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Space and Planetary ScienceObservatory0103 physical sciencesBroadbandX-ray polarimetry010303 astronomy & astrophysicsCompact objectsmedia_commonPhysics010308 nuclear & particles physicsX-ray imagingVegaAstronomyAstronomy and AstrophysicsAccretion physicsCosmologySkySpace and Planetary ScienceExperimental Astronomy
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The x-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer onboard Athena

2012

Trabajo presentado a la conferencia: "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray" celebrada en Amsterdam (Holanda) el 1 de julio de 2012.-- et al.

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