Overview of the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS)

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dc.contributor.authorReynolds, Christopher S.
dc.contributor.authorKara, Erin A.
dc.contributor.authorMushotzky, Richard F.
dc.contributor.authorPtak, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorFoord, Adi
dc.contributor.authorMeyer, Eileen T.
dc.contributor.authorAXIS Team
dc.contributor.authoret al.
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-26T13:47:35Z
dc.date.available2023-10-26T13:47:35Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-05
dc.descriptionSPIE Optical Engineering + Applications; San Diego, California, United States; 2023en_US
dc.descriptionAuthors: - Christopher S. Reynolds, Erin A. Kara, Richard F. Mushotzky, Andrew Ptak, Michael J. Koss, Brian J. Williams, Steven W. Allen, Franz E. Bauer, Marshall Bautz, Arash Bogadhee, Kevin B. Burdge, Nico Cappelluti, Brad Cenko, George Chartas, Kai-Wing Chan, Lía Corrales, Tansu Daylan, Abraham D. Falcone, Adi Foord, Catherine E. Grant, Mélanie Habouzit, Daryl Haggard, Sven Herrmann, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Oleg Kargaltsev, George W. King, Marina Kounkel, Laura A. Lopez, Stefano Marchesi, Michael McDonald, Eileen Meyer, Eric D. Miller, Melania Nynka, Takashi Okajima, Fabio Pacucci, Helen R. Russell, Samar Safi-Harb, Keivan G. Strassun, Anna Trindade Falcão, Stephen A. Walker, Joern Wilms, Mihoko Yukita, William W. Zhang
dc.description.abstractThe Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a Probe-class concept that will build on the legacy of the Chandra x-ray Observatory by providing low-background, arcsecond-resolution in the 0.3-10 keV band across a 450 arcminute² field of view, with an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity. AXIS utilizes breakthroughs in the construction of lightweight segmented x-ray optics using single-crystal silicon, and developments in the fabrication of large-format, small-pixel, high readout rate CCD detectors with good spectral resolution, allowing a robust and cost-effective design. Further, AXIS will be responsive to target-of-opportunity alerts and, with onboard transient detection, will be a powerful facility for studying the time-varying x-ray universe, following on from the legacy of the Neil Gehrels (Swift) x-ray observatory that revolutionized studies of the transient x-ray Universe. In this paper, we present an overview of AXIS, highlighting the prime science objectives driving the AXIS concept and how the observatory design will achieve these objectives.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipC.S.R. and R.F.M. gratefully acknowledge support of the AXIS Program from the Department of Astronomy, College of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, and Vice President for Research Office at the University of Maryland via the Big Opportunity Fund. The MIT focal plane team gratefully acknowledges support from NASA through the Strategic Astrophysics Technology (SAT) program, grants 80NSSC18K0138, 80NSSC19K0401 and 80NSSC23K0211 to MIT, and from the Kavli Research Infrastructure Fund of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Stanford team members acknowledge support from NASA through Astrophysics Research and Analysis (APRA) grants 80NSSC19K0499 and 80NSSC22K1921, and from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. D.H. acknowledges support from the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant program. K.W.C acknowledges the support by NASA through the CRESST-II Cooperative Agreement under award number 80GSFC21M0002. HRR acknowledges support from an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship and an Anne McLaren Fellowship. S.S.H. acknowledges support from NSERC through the Canada Research Chairs program and the Discovery Grants program, and from the Canadian Space Agency. F.E.B. acknowledges support from ANID-Chile BASAL CATA FB210003, FONDECYT Regular 1200495, and Millennium Science Initiative Program – ICN12_009.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12678/126781E/Overview-of-the-advanced-x-ray-imaging-satellite-AXIS/10.1117/12.2677468.fullen_US
dc.format.extent23 pagesen_US
dc.genreconference papers and proceedingsen_US
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dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m26ey2-uz7l
dc.identifier.citationChristopher S. Reynolds, Erin A. Kara, Richard F. Mushotzky, Andrew Ptak, Michael J. Koss, Brian J. Williams, Steven W. Allen, Franz E. Bauer, Marshall Bautz, Arash Bogadhee, Kevin B. Burdge, Nico Cappelluti, Brad Cenko, George Chartas, Kai-Wing Chan, Lía Corrales, Tansu Daylan, Abraham D. Falcone, Adi Foord, Catherine E. Grant, Mélanie Habouzit, Daryl Haggard, Sven Herrmann, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Oleg Kargaltsev, George W. King, Marina Kounkel, Laura A. Lopez, Stefano Marchesi, Michael McDonald, Eileen Meyer, Eric D. Miller, Melania Nynka, Takashi Okajima, Fabio Pacucci, Helen R. Russell, Samar Safi-Harb, Keivan G. Strassun, Anna Trindade Falcão, Stephen A. Walker, Joern Wilms, Mihoko Yukita, and William W. Zhang "Overview of the advanced x-ray imaging satellite (AXIS)", Proc. SPIE 12678, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII, 126781E (5 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677468en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/30383
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dc.titleOverview of the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS)en_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS): An Overview
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