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The Constellation X-ray Mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

N. E. White  and
H. Tananbaum
N. E. White
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20771, U.S.A.
H. Tananbaum
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

Abstract

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The Constellation-X mission is a large collecting-area X-ray facility emphasizing observations at high spectral resolution (E/ΔE ~ 300–3000) while covering a broad energy band (0.25–40 keV). By increasing the telescope aperture and utilizing efficient spectrometers, the mission will achieve a factor of 100 increased sensitivity over current high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy missions. The use of focusing optics across the 10–40 keV band will provide a similar factor of 100 increased sensitivity in this band. When observations commence in ~ 2008, Constellation-X will address many pressing questions concerning the extremes of gravity and the evolution of the Universe.

Type
Part I: Talks
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 195: Highly Energetic Physical Processes and Mechanisms , 2000 , pp. 61 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000 

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