The ASTRO-H X-ray observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8443, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Takahashi, Tadayuki ^a   Mitsuda, Kazuhisa ^a   Kelley, Richard ^b   Aarts, Henri ^c   Aharonian, Felix ^d   Akamatsu, Hiroki ^c   Akimotoe, Fumie ^e   Allen, Steve ^f   Anabuki, Naohisa ^g   Angelini, Lorella ^b   Arnaud, Keith ^h   Asai, Makoto ^f   Audard, Marc ⁱ   Awaki, Hisamitsu ^j   Azzarello, Philipp ⁱ   Baluta, Chris ^a   Bamba, Aya ^k   Bando, Nobutaka ^a   Bautz, Mark ^l   Blandford, Roger ^f   Boyce, Kevin ^b   Brown, Greg ^m   Cackett, Ed ⁿ   Chernyakova, Maria ^d   Coppi, Paolo ^o   Costantini, Elisa ^c   De Plaa, Jelle ^c   Den Herder, Jan Willem ^c   DiPirro, Michael ^b   Done, Chris ^p   Dotani, Tadayasu ^a   Doty, John ^q   Ebisawa, Ken ^a   Eckart, Megan ^b   Enoto, Teruaki ^r   Ezoe, Yuichiro ^s   Fabian, Andrew ⁿ   Ferrigno, Carlo ⁱ   Foster, Adam ^t   Fujimoto, Ryuichi ^u   Fukazawa, Yasushi ^v   Funk, Stefan ^f   Furuzawa, Akihiro ^e   Galeazzi, Massimiliano ^w   Gallo, Luigi ^x   Gandhi, Poshak ^a   Gendreau, Keith ^b   Gilmore, Kirk ^f   Haas, Daniel ^c   Haba, Yoshito ^e   Hamaguchi, Kenji ^h   Hatsukade, Isamu ^y   Hayashi, Takayuki ^a   Hayashida, Kiyoshi ^g   Hiraga, Junko ^z   Hirose, Kazuyuki ^a   Hornschemeier, Ann ^b   Hoshino, Akio ^u   Hughes, John ^aa   Hwang, Una ^ab   Iizuka, Ryo ^ac   Inoue, Yoshiyuki ^f   Ishibashi, Kazunori ^e   Ishida, Manabu ^aa   Ishimura, Kosei ^a   Ishisaki, Yoshitaka ^s   Ito, Masayuki ^ad   Iwat, Naoko ^aa   Iyomoto, Naoko ^ae   Kaastr, Jelle ^ac   Kallman, Timothy ^b   Kamae, Tuneyoshi ^f   Kataoka, Jun ^af   Katsuda, Satoru ^q   Kawahara, Hajime ^s   Kawaharada, Madoka ^a   Kawai, Nobuyuki ^ag   Kawasaki, Shigeo ^a   Khangaluyan, Dmitry ^a   Kilbourne, Caroline ^b   Kimura, Masashi ^g   Kinugasaa, Kenzo ^h   Kitamoto, Shunji ^ai   Kitayama, Tetsu ^aj   Kohmura, Takayoshi ^ak   Kokubun, Motohide ^a   Kosaka, Tatsuro ^al   Koujelev, Alex ^am   Koyama, Katsuji ^an   Krimm, Hans ^b   Kubota, Aya ^ao   Kunieda, Hideyo ^e   LaMass, Stephanie ^ao   Laurent, Philippe ^ap   Lebrun, Francois ^ap   Leutenegger, Maurice ^b   Limousin, Olivier ^aq   Loewenstein, Michael ^b   Long, Knox ^aq   Lumb, David ^ar   Madejski, Grzegorz ^f   Maedaa, Yoshitomo ^aa   Makishima, Kazuo ^z   Marchand, Genevieve ^am   Markevitch, Maxim ^b   Matsumoto, Hironori ^e   Matsushita, Kyoko ^as   McCammona, Dan ^t   McNamara, Brian ^au   Miller, Jon ^av   Miller, Eric ^l   Mineshige, Shin ^an   Minesugi, Kenji ^a   Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki ^s   Miyazaw, Takuya ^ae   Mizuno, Tsunefumi ^v   Mori, Hideyuki ^a   Mori, Koji ^y   Mukai, Koji ^b   Murakami, Toshio ^u   Murakami, Hiroshi ^ai   Mushotzky, Richard ^h   Nagano, Housei ^e   Nagino, Ryo ^g   Nakagaw, Takao ^aa   Nakajim, Hiroshi ^ag   Nakamori, Takeshi ^af   Nakazaw, Kazuhiro ^az   Namba, Yoshiharu ^aw   Natsukari, Chikara ^a   Nishiok, Yusuke ^ay   Nobukawa, Masayoshi ^an   Nomachi, Masaharu ^g   O'Dell, Steve ^ax   Odak, Hirokazu ^aa   Ogaw, Hiroyuki ^a   Ogaw, Mina ^a   Ogi, Keiji ^j   Ohashi, Takaya ^s   Ohno, Masanori ^v   Ohta, Masayuki ^a   Okajima, Takashi ^b   Okamotoa, Atsushi ^ay   Okazaki, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ota, Naomi ^az   Ozaki, Masanobu ^a   Paerelsb, Frits ^m   Paltanii, Stephane ⁱ   Parmar, Arvind ^bb   Petre, Robert ^b   Pohl, Martin ⁱ   Porter, F Scott ^b   Ramsey, Brian ^ax   Reis, Rubens ^av   Reynolds, Christopher ^h   Russell, Helen ^au   Sa Harb, Samar ^bc   Sakai, Shin Ichiro ^a   Sameshima, Hiroaki ^h   Sanders, Jeremy ⁿ   Sato, Goro ^a   Sato, Rie ^l   Sato, Yoichi ^ay   Sato, Kosuke ^as   Sawada, Makoto ^k   Serlemitsos, Peter ^b   Seta, Hiromi ^ai   Shibano, Yasuko ^a   Shida, Maki ^f   Shimada, Takanobu ^a   Shinozaki, Keisuke ^ay   Shirron, Peter ^b   Simionescu, Aurora ^e   Simmons, Cynthia ^b   Smith, Randall ^bd   Sneiderman, Gary ^b   Soong, Yang ^b   Stawarz, Lukasz ^a   Sugawara, Yasuharu ^ac   Sugita, Hiroyuki ^ay   Sugit, Satoshi ^ae   Szymkowiak, Andrew ^o   Tajim, Hiroyasu ^ae   Takahashi, Hiromitsu ^v   Takeda, Shin Ichiro ^ad   Takei, Yoh ^a   Tamagawa, Toru ^ab   Tamura, Takayuki ^ao   Tamura, Keisuke ^e   Tanaka, Takaaki ^an   Tanaka, Yasuo ^a   Tashiro, Makoto ^bd   Tawara, Yuzuru ^e   Terada, Yukikatsu ^bd   Terashima, Yuichi ^j   Tombesi, Francesco ^b   Tomida, Hiroshi ^a   Tsuboi, Yoko ^ac   Tsujimoto, Masahiro ^a   Tsunemi, Hiroshi ^g   Tsuru, Takeshi ^an   Uchida, Hiroyuki ^an   Uchiyam, Yasunobu ^af   Uchiyam, Hideki ^az   Ueda, Yoshihiro ^an   Ueno, Shiro ^ay   Unobe, Shinichiro ^be   Urry, Meg ^o   Ursino, Eugenio ^w   De Vries, Cor ^ah   Wada, Atsushi ^ay   Watanabe, Shin ^a   Werner, Norbert ^at   White, Nicholas ^b   Yamada, Takahiro ^a   Yamada, Shinya ^r   Yamaguchi, Hiroya ^t   Yamasaki, Noriko ^a   Yamauchi, Shigeo ^az   Yamauchi, Makoto ^y   Yatsuag, Yoichi ^ba   Yonetok, Daisuke ^u   Yoshida, Atsumasa ^k   Yuasa, Takayuki ^a   more..

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Bldg 142   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^j EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^o Yale University   (United States)

^p DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^q Noqsi Aerospace   (United States)

^r RIKEN   (Japan)

^s TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^t HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^u KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^v HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^w UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^x SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^y UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^z UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^aa RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ac CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ad KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ae Department of Applied Quantum Physics and Nuclear Engnieering ^*  (Japan)

^af WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ag TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^ah Gunma Astronomical Observatory   (Japan)

^ai RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^aj TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ak KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^al KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^am CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^an KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ao SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^ap CEA SACLAY   (France)

^aq Space Science Telescope Institute ^*  (United States)

^ar EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^as TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^at University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^au UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^av UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^aw CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ax NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^ay JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^az NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ba Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^bb EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^bc UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^bd SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^be NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Gamma ray; Gamma ray Astronomy; Hard X ray; Micro calorimeter; X ray; X ray Astronomy

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; COMPTON CAMERAS; FOCAL PLANE; GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY; HARD X RAY; HARD X-RAY IMAGING; HARD X-RAY MIRRORS; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; INSTITUTE OF SPACE AND ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCE; MICRO-CALORIMETER ARRAY; MICROCALORIMETER; SOFT GAMMA-RAY DETECTOR; SOFT X-RAY; WIDE ENERGY RANGE; WIDE FIELD IMAGING; X-RAY ASTRONOMY; X-RAY CCD; X-RAY MISSION; X-RAY OBSERVATORY;

ASTRONOMY; CALORIMETERS; CCD CAMERAS; FOCUSING; GAMMA RAYS; MULTILAYERS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

X RAYS;

EID: 84871726495     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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