Hitomi (ASTRO-H) X-ray Astronomy Satellite
| dc.contributor.author | Takahashi, Tadayuki | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kokubun, Motohide | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mitsuda, Kazuhisa | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kelley, Richard L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pottschmidt, Katja | |
| dc.contributor.author | et al | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-29T19:23:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-08-29T19:23:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-03-13 | |
| dc.description | Authors: - Tadayuki Takahashi, Motohide Kokubun, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard L. Kelley, Takaya Ohashi, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu, Fumie Akimoto, Steven W. Allen, Naohisa Anabuki, Lorella Angelini, Keith A. Arnaud, Makoto Asai, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki, Magnus Axelsson, Philipp Azzarello, Chris Baluta, Aya Bamba, Nobutaka Bando, Marshall W. Bautz, Thomas G. Bialas, Roger D. Blandford, Kevin R. Boyce, Laura W. Brenneman, Gregory V. Brown, Esra Bulbul, Edward M. Cackett, Edgar R. Canavan, Maria Chernyakova, Meng P. Chiao, Paolo S. Coppi, Elisa Costantini, Stephen L. O’ Dell, Michael J. DiPirro, Chris Done, Tadayasu Dotani, John P. Doty, Ken Ebisawa, Megan E. E. Eckart, Teruaki Enoto, Yuichiro Ezoe, Andrew C. Fabian, Carlo Ferrigno, Adam R. Foster, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Yasushi Fukazawa, Stefan Funk, Akihiro Furuzawa, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Luigi C. Gallo, Poshak Gandhi, Kirk Gilmore, Margherita Giustini, Andrea Goldwurm, Liyi Gu, Matteo Guainazzi, Daniel A. Haas, Yoshito Haba, Kouichi Hagino, Kenji Hamaguchi, Ilana M. Harrus, Isamu Hatsukade, Takayuki Hayashi, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Junko S. Hiraga, Kazuyuki Hirose, Ann E. Hornschemeier, Akio Hoshino, John P. Hughes, Yuto Ichinohe, Ryo Iizuka, Hajime Inoue, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Kazunori Ishibashi, Manabu Ishida, Kumi Ishikawa, Kosei Ishimura, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Masayuki Itoh, Masachika Iwai, Naoko Iwata, Naoko Iyomoto, Christopher Jewell, Jelle S. Kaastra, Timothy R. Kallman, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Erin Kara, Jun Kataoka, Satoru Katsuda, Junichiro Katsuta, Madoka Kawaharada, Nobuyuki Kawai, Taro Kawano, Shigeo Kawasaki, Dmitry Khangulyan, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Mark O. Kimball, Ashley L. King, Takao Kitaguchi, Shunji Kitamoto, Tetsu Kitayama, Takayoshi Kohmura, Saori Konami, Tatsuro Kosaka, Alexander S. Koujelev, Katsuji Koyama, Shu Koyama, Peter Kretschmar, Hans A. Krimm, Aya Kubota, Hideyo Kunieda, Philippe Laurent, Shiu-Hang Lee, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Olivier Limousin, Michael Loewenstein, Knox S. Long, David H. Lumb, Grzegorz M. Madejski, Yoshitomo Maeda, Daniel Maier, Kazuo Makishima, Maxim L. Markevitch, Candace Masters, Hironori Matsumoto, Kyoko Matsushita, Daniel McCammon, Daniel S. McGuinness, Brian R. McNamara, Missagh Mehdipour, Joseph J. Miko, Eric D. Miller, Jon M. Miller, Shin Mineshige, Kenji Minesugi, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Takuya Miyazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hideyuki Mori, Koji Mori, Franco Moroso, Samuel H. Moseley, Theodore T. Muench, Koji Mukai, Hiroshi Murakami, Toshio Murakami, Richard F. Mushotzky, Hosei Nagano, Ryo Nagino, Takao Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takeshi Nakamori, Toshio Nakano, Shinya Nakashima, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Yoshiharu Namba, Chikara Natsukari, Yusuke Nishioka, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hirofumi Noda, Masaharu Nomachi, Hirokazu Odaka, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Mina Ogawa, Keiji Ogi, Masanori Ohno, Masayuki Ohta, Takashi Okajima, Atsushi Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Naomi Ota, Masanobu Ozaki, Frederik B. S. Paerels, Stéphane Paltani, Arvind N. Parmar, Robert Petre, Ciro Pinto, Jelle de Plaa, Martin Pohl, James T. Pontius, Frederick S. Porter, Katja Pottschmidt, Brian Ramsey, Christopher S. Reynolds, Helen Russell, Samar Safi-Harb, Shinya Saito, Kazuhiro Sakai, Shin-ichiro Sakai, Hiroaki Sameshima, Toru Sasaki, Goro Sato, Kosuke Sato, Rie Sato, Yoichi Sato, Makoto Sawada, Norbert Schartel, Peter J. Serlemitsos, Hiromi Seta, Yasuko Shibano, Maki Shida, Megumi Shidatsu, Takanobu Shimada, Keisuke Shinozaki, Peter J. Shirron, Aurora Simionescu, Cynthia W. Simmons, Randall K. Smith, Gary A. Sneiderman, Yang Soong, Łukasz F. Stawarz, Yasuharu Sugawara, Satoshi Sugita, Hiroyuki Sugita, Andrew E. Szymkowiak, Hiroyasu Tajima, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Yoh Takei, Toru Tamagawa, Takayuki Tamura, Keisuke Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Yasuo Tanaka, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Makoto S. Tashiro, Yuzuru Tawara, Yukikatsu Terada, Yuichi Terashima, Francesco Tombesi, Hiroshi Tomida, Yohko Tsuboi, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Hiroyuki Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Shutaro Ueda, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shiro Ueno, Shin’ichiro Uno, C. Megan Urry, Eugenio Ursino, Cor P. de Vries, Atsushi Wada, Shin Watanabe, Tomomi Watanabe, Norbert Werner, Daniel R. Wik, Dan R. Wilkins, Brian J. Williams, Shinya Yamada, Takahiro Yamada, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Makoto Yamauchi, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tahir Yaqoob, Yoichi Yatsu, Daisuke Yonetoku, Atsumasa Yoshida, Takayuki Yuasa, Irina Zhuravleva, Abderahmen Zoghbi | en_US |
| dc.description | SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft x-rays to gamma rays. After a successful launch on February 17, 2016, the spacecraft lost its function on March 26, 2016, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the onboard instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We thank the support from the JSPS Core-to-Core Program. We acknowledge all the JAXA members who have contributed to the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) project. All U.S. members gratefully acknowledge support through the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Stanford and SLAC members acknowledge support via DoE contract to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory No. DE-AC3-76SF00515. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DoE by LLNL under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344. Support from the European Space Agency is gratefully acknowledged. French members acknowledge support from the Centre National d’Études Spatiales. SRON is supported by NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Swiss team acknowledges support of the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation. The Canadian Space Agency is acknowledged for the support of Canadian members. We acknowledge support from JSPS/MEXT KAKENHI Grant Nos. JP15H00773, JP15H00785, JP15H02070, JP15H02090, JP15H03639, JP15H03641, JP15H03642, JP15H05438, JP15H06896, JP15J02737, JP15K05107, JP15K17610, JP15K17657, JP16H00949, JP16H03983, JP16H06342, JP16J00548, JP16J02333, JP16K05295, JP16K05296, JP16K05300, JP16K05309, JP16K13787, JP16K17667, JP16K17672, JP16K17673, JP17H02864, JP17K05393, JP21659292, JP23340055, JP23340071, JP23540280, JP24105007, JP24244014, JP24540232, JP25105516, JP25109004, JP25247028, JP25287042, JP25400236, JP25800119, JP26109506, JP26220703, JP26400228, JP26610047, and JP26800102. The following NASA Grants are acknowledged: NNX15AC76G, NNX15AE16G, NNX15AK71G, NNX15AU54G, NNX15AW94G, and NNG15PP48P to Eureka Scientific. This work was partly supported by Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers, MEXT, Japan, and also by the Research Fellowship of JSPS for Young Scientists. H. Akamatsu acknowledges support of NWO via Veni grant. C. Done acknowledges STFC funding under Grant No. ST/L00075X/1. A. Fabian and C. Pinto acknowledge ERC Advanced Grant No. 340442. P. Gandhi acknowledges JAXA International Top Young Fellowship and UK Science and Technology Funding Council Grant No. ST/J003697/2. Y. Ichinohe, K. Nobukawa, and H. Seta are supported by the Research Fellow of JSPS for Young Scientists. N. Kawai is supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “New Developments in Astrophysics Through Multimessenger Observations of Gravitational Wave Sources.” S. Kitamoto is partially supported by the MEXT Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, 2014 to 2018. B. McNamara and S. Safi-Harb acknowledge support from NSERC. T. Dotani, T. Takahashi, T. Tamagawa, M. Tsujimoto, and Y. Uchiyama acknowledge support from the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Nuclear Matter in Neutron Stars Investigated by Experiments and Astronomical Observations.” N. Werner is supported by the Lendület LP2016-11 Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. D. Wilkins is supported by NASA through Einstein Fellowship Grant No. PF6-170160, awarded by the Chandra X-ray Center, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under Contract No NAS8-03060. We thank contributions by many companies, including in particular, NEC, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Japan Aviation Electronics Industry. We acknowledge contribution and support by late Henri Aarts and Koujun Yamashita. It is our honor that we could have worked together with them for long years. Contributions by Takashi Kubota and Atushi Harayama are gratefully acknowledged. We note that this mission is supported by dedicated works of many graduate and undergraduate students from universities and research institutes participated in this project. Finally, we thank the following engineers ADNET Systems: Michael Witthoeft, Kristin Rutkowski, Robert S. Hill, and Joseph Eggen; Wyle Information Systems: Andrew Sargent and Michael Dutka; SRON: Martin Frericks, Philippe Laubert, and Paul Lowes. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-4/issue-02/021402/Hitomi-ASTRO-H-X-ray-Astronomy-Satellite/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.021402.full?SSO=1 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 14 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2jelr-k0ca | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Takahashi, Tadayuki, Motohide Kokubun, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard L. Kelley, Takaya Ohashi, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu, et al. “Hitomi (ASTRO-H) X-Ray Astronomy Satellite.” Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 4, no. 2 (March 2018): 021402. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.021402. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.021402 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/29429 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | SPIE | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Center for Space Sciences and Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department | |
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| dc.title | Hitomi (ASTRO-H) X-ray Astronomy Satellite | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4656-6881 | en_US |