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1. Initial state of the recombining plasma in supernova remnant W 28

Author

Rui Himono, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Shigeo Yamauchi, Kumiko K Nobukawa, and Nari Suzuki

Subjects
Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Abstract

We have investigated supernova remnant (SNR) W 28 using Suzaku archival data, and we report here the results of our spatially resolved analyses. We carried out spectral analyses using a recombining-plasma (RP) model with element-dependent initial ionization temperatures, obtaining ∼0.5 keV for Ne, ∼0.7 keV for Mg, ∼1.0 keV for Si, ∼1.2 keV for S, ∼1.4 keV for Ar, ∼1.7 keV for Ca, and ∼0.7 keV for Fe in the initial RP phase. In addition to the north-east regions where RPs have been reported previously, we find that the ionization temperatures in the south-east and south-west regions exhibit trends that are similar to those in the central region in the initial RP phase. We also find that the time elapsed from the initial phase of the RP to the present is shorter in the central region, ∼300 yr, and longer in the outside regions, ∼103–104 yr. Our results cannot be explained by simple scenarios involving thermal conduction into molecular clouds or by adiabatic cooling (due to rarefaction), indicating that more complex mechanisms or other scenarios are required. We also estimate the ejecta mass to be ≳14 M⊙, which indicates that this SNR was produced by a massive star.

Published
2023

2. Spectral study of the Galactic ridge X-ray emission with Suzaku: Comparison of the spectral shape with point sources

Author

Kumiko Yamamoto, Shigeo Yamauchi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Kumiko K Nobukawa, and Hideki Uchiyama

Subjects
Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Abstract

The Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) is unresolved X-ray emission located on the Galactic plane, and whether the GRXE comes from truly diffuse plasma or unresolved point sources is still debatable. We present results of spectral analysis of the GRXE with Suzaku. In order to examine the point source origin, we fitted the GRXE spectra in the 1.2–10 keV energy band with a point source model, which is a mixture of active binary stars (ABs) and non-magnetic cataclysmic variables (non-mCVs), and found that the model cannot represent the GRXE spectral shape as long as the standard metal abundances of these species are assumed. In particular, the standard abundance model cannot account for the observed intensities of Si, S, and Ar lines as well as the previously reported Fe line. Assuming spatial densities in the solar neighborhood, integration of the ABs and non-mCVs accounts for only 30% of the observed GRXE flux. Other species of the point sources or diffuse emission with stronger Si, S, Ar, and Fe emission lines shall explain the rest.

Published
2023

3. A broadband x-ray imaging spectroscopy in the 2030s: the FORCE mission

Author

Koji Mori, Takeshi G. Tsuru, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shin Watanabe, Takaaki Tanaka, Manabu Ishida, Hironori Matsumoto, Hisamitsu Awaki, Hiroshi Murakami, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Ayaki Takeda, Yasushi Fukazawa, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Tadayuki Takahashi, Ann E. Hornschemeier, Takashi Okajima, William W. Zhang, Brian J. Williams, Tonia Venters, Kristin Madsen, Mihoko Yukita, Hiroki Akamatsu, Aya Bamba, Teruaki Enoto, Yutaka Fujita, Akihiro Furuzawa, Kouichi Hagino, Kosei Ishimura, Masayuki Itoh, Tetsu Kitayama, Shogo B. Kobayashi, Takayoshi Kohmura, Aya Kubota, Misaki Mizumoto, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Nakajima, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Hirofumi Noda, Hirokazu Odaka, Naomi Ota, Toshiki Sato, Megumi Shidatsu, Hiromasa Suzuki, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Atsushi Tanimoto, Yukikatsu Terada, Yuichi Terashima, Hiroyuki Uchida, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Hiroya Yamaguchi, and Yoichi Yatsu

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract

In this multi-messenger astronomy era, all the observational probes are improving their sensitivities and overall performance. The Focusing on Relativistic universe and Cosmic Evolution (FORCE) mission, the product of a JAXA/NASA collaboration, will reach a 10 times higher sensitivity in the hard X-ray band ($E >$ 10~keV) in comparison with any previous hard X-ray missions, and provide simultaneous soft X-ray coverage. FORCE aims to be launched in the early 2030s, providing a perfect hard X-ray complement to the ESA flagship mission Athena. FORCE will be the most powerful X-ray probe for discovering obscured/hidden black holes and studying high energy particle acceleration in our Universe and will address how relativistic processes in the universe are realized and how these affect cosmic evolution. FORCE, which will operate over 1--79 keV, is equipped with two identical pairs of supermirrors and wideband X-ray imagers. The mirror and imager are connected by a high mechanical stiffness extensible optical bench with alignment monitor systems with a focal length of 12~m. A light-weight silicon mirror with multi-layer coating realizes a high angular resolution of $, 12 pages, 8 figures. Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022

Published
2022

4. Suzaku Observations of Fe K-shell Lines in the Supernova Remnant W51C and Hard X-ray Sources in the Proximity

Author

Aika Shimaguchi, Kumiko K Nobukawa, Shigeo Yamauchi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, and Yutaka Fujita

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

In this paper, we investigated the Fe K-shell lines in the supernova remnant W51C and hard X-ray sources in the proximity. We measured the intensities of Fe I K$\alpha$ and Fe XXV He$\alpha$ lines at 6.40 keV and 6.68 keV, respectively, and found that the intensity of the 6.68 keV line is consistent with the background level expected from previous studies, while that of the 6.40 keV line is higher at the significance level of 2.0${\sigma}$. Given the presence of gamma-ray emission and high ionization rate point spatially coincident with the remnant, we conclude that the enhanced 6.40 keV line most likely originates from the interaction between low-energy cosmic rays and molecular clouds. Also, we discovered an enhanced 6.68 keV line emission from the compact H II region G49.0-0.3 at the significance level of 3.4${\sigma}$. Spectral analysis revealed that the temperature and abundance of the thermal plasma with the 6.68 keV line is $kT = 3.0^{+0.8}_{-0.7}$ keV and $Z = 0.5 \pm 0.2$ solar, respectively. These values are explained by the thermal plasma generated by the stellar winds of O stars., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)

Published
2022
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5. X-Ray Emission from the PeVatron-candidate Supernova Remnant G106.3+2.7

Author

Yutaka Fujita, Aya Bamba, Hironori Matsumoto, and Kumiko K. Nobukawa

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Nebula, X-ray astronomy, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Radiative cooling, Molecular cloud, Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Pulsar, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

We report a discovery of diffuse X-ray emission around the supernova remnant (SNR) G106.3+2.7, which is associated with VER J2227+608 and HAWC J2227+610 and is known as a candidate for a PeV cosmic ray accelerator (PeVatron). We analyze observational data of Suzaku around the SNR and the adjacent pulsar PSR J2229+6114. We find diffuse X-ray emission that is represented by either thermal or non-thermal one. However, the metal abundance for the thermal emission is, matched the published version

Published
2021
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6. Soft x-ray imager (SXI) for Xtend onboard X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)

Author

Takashi Sako, Jin Sato, Koki Okazaki, Kazunori Asakura, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Hirofumi Noda, Yukino Urabe, Masanobu Ozaki, Makoto Yamauchi, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Masayuki Yoshida, Shotaro Sakuma, Takayoshi Kohmura, Tessei Yoshida, Yusuke Nishioka, Shogo B. Kobayashi, Hideki Uchiyama, Maho Hanaoka, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, K. Mori, Tomokage Yoneyama, Kouichi Hagino, Mariko Saito, Isamu Hatsukade, Kengo Hattori, Ayami Ishikura, Toshiyuki Takaki, Junko S. Hiraga, Yuki Amano, Hironori Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Uchida, Hiroshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, Y. Terada, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadayasu Dotani, Hiromichi Okon, and Hikari Kashimura

Subjects
Physics, Optics, Cardinal point, business.industry, Filter (video), Resolution (electron density), Calibration, Monochromatic color, business, Spectroscopy, Energy (signal processing), Dark current
Abstract

We report current status of developing Soft X-ray Imager (SXI), the X-ray CCD camera onboard X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM). Four flight model (FM) CCDs have been selected considering several items including energy resolution at 5.9keV, CTI, dark current, etc. We have also completed calibration campaign for all the FM CCDs. Initial analyses show that the response function for monochromatic X-rays is basically the same as that of Hitomi CCDs. The focal plane including the single-stage Stirling cooler has been assembled. Production of key parts in SXI sensor body such as contamination blocking filter and onboard calibration source has been finished and they are waiting for assemble. The digitized signals of the CCD are corrected step by step before conversion to X-ray energy. We are preparing calibration database for the correction such as CTI, gain, and line redistribution function.

Published
2020

7. On-ground calibration of XRISM/Xtend CCD

Author

Hiroyuki Uchida, Toshiyuki Takaki, Akira Kashimura, Jin Sato, Hideki Uchiyama, Yukino Urabe, Shogo B. Kobayashi, Koki Okazaki, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Ayami Ishikura, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Shotaro Sakuma, Kengo Hattori, Hironori Matsumoto, Kazunori Asakura, Junko S. Hiraga, Takashi Sako, Hiroshi Nakajima, Tomokage Yoneyama, Mariko Saito, Hirofumi Noda, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Hiromichi Okon, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, Yuki Amano, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Takaaki Tanaka, Maho Hanaoka, K. Mori, and Kouichi Hagino

Subjects
Physics, Cardinal point, Optics, Spectrometer, business.industry, Detector, Calibration, Xtend, Field of view, Monochromatic color, Photonics, business
Abstract

X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) is the seventh Japanese X-ray astronomical satellite scheduled to be launched in the Japanese fiscal year 2022. XRISM has two mission instruments, “Resolve”, a soft X-ray spectrometer, and “Xtend”, a soft X-ray imager. The Former is an X-ray micro-calorimeter that has ∼ 5 eV of energy resolution with 3′ × 3 ′ of field of view. The Latter is an X-ray CCD camera with 38′ × 38′ of field of view. Both instruments are placed on the focal plane of X-ray telescopes, X-ray Mirror Assembly (XMA). Xtend CCDs are designed almost the same as those of Hitomi (ASTRO-H), whereas some improvements have been applied. In 2019, flight-model (FM) candidates of Xtend CCDs were fabricated by Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. We performed screening experiments to examine whether they met requirements or not, and then selected the best four chips as the FM. We then performed on-ground calibration on August 2019 and September 2019 for the FM chips to determine the gain correction parameters and to construct the detector response with several energies of monochromatic X-ray. In this paper, we report screening, selection, and on-ground calibration processes, especially focusing on the response verification.

Published
2020

8. Low-energy Cosmic Rays in Supernova Remnants Interacting with Molecular Clouds

Author

Kumiko K. Nobukawa

Subjects
Physics, Supernova, Low energy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Ionization, Molecular cloud, Observable, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation)
Abstract

Information on low-energy cosmic rays (CRs) below the MeV band has been very limited due to difficulty of measurements in contrast to high-energy (GeV–TeV) CRs, which are observable via gamma-rays. Only ionization rate provides indirect information on low-energy CRs. The neutral iron line at 6.4 keV can be a new effective probe. Utilizing the Suzaku archive data, we searched supernova remnants (SNRs) for the particle-induced 6.4 keV line. Since accelerated CR particles can produce the 6.4 keV line when they interact with molecular clouds, we focused on SNRs interacting with molecular clouds. The 6.4 keV line probably induced by CR particles has been found from more than 10 SNRs. More than a half of the SNRs also show gamma-ray emission. We found that both the 6.4 keV line and gamma-ray emissions can be explained by a CR escaping scenario at least for W28, W44, and IC 443. It indicates that low-energy CRs producing the 6.4 keV line have been accelerated at the SNRs together with high-energy CRs.

Published
2020

9. Experimental studies on the charge transfer inefficiency of CCD developed for the soft X-ray imaging telescope Xtend aboard the XRISM satellite

Author

Shogo B. Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nakajima, Ayami Ishikura, Takaaki Tanaka, Jin Sato, Tadayasu Dotani, Hiromichi Okon, Hironori Matsumoto, Junko S. Hiraga, Koki Okazaki, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Tomokage Yoneyama, Mariko Saito, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, Y. Terada, Kengo Hattori, K. Mori, Masanobu Ozaki, Yukino Urabe, Takayoshi Kohmura, Isamu Hatsukade, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Hikari Kashimura, Makoto Yamauchi, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Shotaro Sakuma, Kouichi Hagino, Maho Hanaoka, Yusuke Nishioka, Hirofumi Noda, Takashi Sako, Kazunori Asakura, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Toshiyuki Takaki, Hiroyuki Uchida, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Yuki Amano, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Kiyoshi Hayashida, and Hideki Uchiyama

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photon, Pixel, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Time constant, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Charge (physics), 01 natural sciences, Computational physics, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite, Charge-coupled device, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation
Abstract

We present experimental studies on the charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) of charge-coupled device (CCD) developed for the soft X-ray imaging telescope, Xtend, aboard the XRISM satellite. The CCD is equipped with a charge injection (CI) capability, in which sacrificial charge is periodically injected to fill the charge traps. By evaluating the re-emission of the trapped charge observed behind the CI rows, we find that there are at least three trap populations with different time constants. The traps with the shortest time constant, which is equivalent to a transfer time of approximately one pixel, are mainly responsible for the trailing charge of an X-ray event seen in the following pixel. A comparison of the trailing charge in two clocking modes reveals that the CTI depends not only on the transfer time but also on the area, namely the imaging or storage area. We construct a new CTI model with taking into account with both transfer-time and area dependence. This model reproduces the data obtained in both clocking modes consistently. We also examine apparent flux dependence of the CTI observed without the CI technique. The higher incident X-ray flux is, the lower the CTI value becomes. It is due to a sacrificial charge effect by another X-ray photon. This effect is found to be negligible when the CI technique is used., 8 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in NIMA, proceedings of the 12th International "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detector (HSTD12)

Published
2020

10. Optical Blocking Performance of CCDs Developed for the X-ray Astronomy Satellite XRISM

Author

Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hiromichi Okon, Masanobu Ozaki, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takayoshi Kohmura, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Takashi Sako, Kouichi Hagino, Takaaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Nakajima, Isamu Hatsukade, Yukino Urabe, Kazunori Asakura, Fumiya Tanaka, Yusuke Nishioka, Kenichi Sugimoto, Makoto Yamauchi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Koji Mori, Tadayasu Dotani, Hirofumi Noda, Koki Okazaki, Tomokage Yoneyama, Mariko Saito, Shogo B. Kobayashi, Hisanori Suzuki, Junko S. Hiraga, Jin Sato, Toshiyuki Takaki, Hideki Uchiyama, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Yuki Amano, Kengo Hattori, Hironori Matsumoto, Maho Hanaoka, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Hikari Kashimura, Hiroyuki Uchida, Shin ichiro Takagi, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, Y. Terada, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Ayami Ishikura, Shotaro Sakuma, and Sho Atsumi

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, X-ray astronomy, business.industry, X-ray detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Blocking (statistics), 01 natural sciences, 010309 optics, Blocking layer, Optics, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite, Charge-coupled device, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Test sample
Abstract

We have been developing P-channel Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) for the upcoming X-ray Astronomy Satellite XRISM, planned to be launched in 2021. While the basic design of the CCD camera (Soft X-ray Imager: SXI) is almost the same as that of the lost Hitomi (ASTRO-H) observatory, we are planning to reduce the "light leakages" that is one of the largest problems recognized in Hitomi data. We adopted a double-layer optical blocking layer on the XRISM CCDs and also added an extra aluminum layer on the backside of them. We develop a newly designed test sample CCD and irradiate it with optical light to evaluate the optical blocking performance. As a result, light leakages are effectively reduced compared with that of the Hitomi CCDs. We thus conclude that the issue is solved by the new design and that the XRISM CCDs satisfy the mission requirement for the SXI., 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in NIMA, proceedings of the 12th International "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detector (HSTD12)

Published
2020

11. X-ray emission from the mixed-morphology supernova remnant HB 9

Author

Shigeo Yamauchi, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Mariko Saito, Thomas G. Pannuti, and Aya Bamba

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, X-ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Plasma, Astrophysics, Spectral line, Ionizing radiation, Interstellar medium, Space and Planetary Science, Ionization, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Ejecta, Supernova remnant
Abstract

We present the results of a spectral analysis of the central region of the mixed-morphology supernova remnant HB 9. A prior Ginga observation of this source detected a hard X-ray component above 4 keV and the origin of this particular X-ray component is still unknown. Our results demonstrate that the extracted X-ray spectra are best represented by a model consisting of a collisional ionization equilibrium plasma with a temperature of ~0.1-0.2 keV (interstellar matter component) and an ionizing plasma with a temperature of ~0.6-0.7 keV and an ionization timescale of >1 x 10^{11} cm^{-3} s (ejecta component). No significant X-ray emission was found in the central region above 4 keV. The recombining plasma model reported by a previous work does not explain our spectra., Accepted for publication in PASJ

Published
2020

12. Discovery of annular X-ray emission centered on MAXI J1421-613: Dust-scattering X-rays?

Author

Masayoshi Nobukawa, Shigeo Yamauchi, and Kumiko K. Nobukawa

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Photon, Spectral shape analysis, Scattering, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Extinction (astronomy), FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Radius, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Supernova remnant, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Intensity (heat transfer)
Abstract

We report the discovery of an annular emission of $\sim$3'-9' radius around the center of a transient source, an X-ray burster MAXI J1421-613, in the Suzaku follow-up analysis. The spectrum of the annular emission shows no significant emission-line structure, and is well explained by an absorbed power law model with a photon index of $\sim$4.2. These features exclude the possibility that the annular emission is a shell-like component of a supernova remnant. The spectral shape, the time history, and the X-ray flux of the annular emission agree with the scenario that the emission is due to a dust-scattering echo. The annular emission is made under a rare condition of the dust-scattering echo, where the central X-ray source, MAXI J1421-613, exhibits a short time outburst with three X-ray bursts and immediately re-enters a long quiescent period. The distribution of the hydrogen column density along the annular emission follows that of the CO intensity, which means that MAXI J1421-613 is located behind the CO cloud. We estimate the distance to MAXI J1421-613 to be $\sim$3~kpc assuming that the dust layer responsible for the annular emission is located at the same position as the CO cloud., Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)

Published
2020

13. Status of x-ray imaging and spectroscopy mission (XRISM)

Author

Yutaka Fujita, Koji Mukai, Peter Shirron, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Toshiaki Takeshima, Isamu Hatsukade, Richard F. Mushotzky, Brian J. Williams, Greg Brown, Hirofumi Noda, Brian Comber, Maria Diaz-Trigo, Manabu Ishida, Brian R. McNamara, Takahiro Sasaki, M. Ohno, Iurii Babyk, Richard L. Kelley, Sayuri Iga, Hiroshi Nakajima, Yuusuke Uchida, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kosuke Sato, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Ryo Iizuka, Irina Zhuravleva, Shogo B. Kobayashi, Hironori Matsumoto, Matthew Holland, K. Matsuzaki, Makoto Sawada, Laura Brenneman, Susumu Yasuda, Shinya Yamada, Makoto Tashiro, Hirokazu Odaka, Yoshihiro Ueda, Keiichi Yanagase, Hiroki Akamatsu, Yasuharu Sugawara, Akihiro Furuzawa, Nobutaka Bando, Akio Hoshino, Koji Mori, Misaki Mizumoto, Lia Corrales, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Hideki Uchiyama, Hironori Maejima, Robert Petre, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Teruaki Enoto, Mina Ogawa, Kenichi Toda, Natalie Hell, Shin'ichiro Uno, Tessei Yoshida, Thomas G. Bialas, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Masayuki Ohta, Yang Soong, Elisa Costantini, Kenji Hamaguchi, Shunji Kitamoto, Takafumi Horiuchi, Leslie Hartz, Luigi C. Gallo, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Renata Cumbee, Yusuke Nishioka, Toshiki Sato, Paul P. Plucinsky, Katja Pottschmidt, Aya Kubota, Ehud Behar, Tom Lockard, Masanobu Ozaki, Kenji Minesugi, Ann Hornschemeier, T. R. Jaffe, Aurora Simionescu, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Stéphane Paltani, Keisuke Tamura, Chris Done, Makoto Yamauchi, Kouichi Hagino, Kosei Ishimura, Akihide Kobayashi, Eric J. Miller, Carlo Ferrigno, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Hiromi Seta, Nathalie Gorter, Cor P. de Vries, Michael J. Sampson, A. E. Szymkowiak, Mark O. Kimball, Gary A. Sneiderman, Dan McCammon, Meng P. Chiao, S. Eguchi, Randall K. Smith, Naoki Ishihama, Yohko Tsuboi, Jon M. Miller, Erin Kara, Takayoshi Kohmura, Timothy R. Kallman, Takashi Okajima, Kenichiro Nigo, Jan-Willem den Herder, Shigeo Yamauchi, Kazunori Someya, Maxim Markevitch, Yuto Ichinohe, M. C. Witthoeft, Yukikatsu Terada, Nasa Yoshioka, Edgar Canavan, Jelle Kaastra, Takao Kitaguchi, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Hideto Nakamura, Shinji Mitani, Hiroyuki Uchida, Masayoshi Nobukawa, R. Sato, Atsushi Tanimoto, Junko S. Hiraga, Keisuke Shinozaki, Yuichiro Ezoe, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Brian McLaughlin, Yasuko Shibano, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Matteo Guainazzi, Lillian Reichenthal, Yuichi Terashima, Kumi Ishikawa, Naomi Ota, Chikara Natsukari, Joseph Miko, Kiyoshi Hayashida, M. Loewenstein, Connor Martz, Tahir Yaqoob, D. Eckert, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Johannes Dercksen, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, Ken Ebisawa, Rob Wolfs, Martin Grim, Tomomi Watanabe, Marc Audard, Keisuke Sugawara, Yoh Takei, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, Atsushi Okamoto, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Shin Watanabe, Yoshitomo Maeda, Shuhei Shigeto, Yoshitaka Arai, Maki Shida, Hisamitsu Awaki, Muzi Li, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadayasu Dotani, David Hawthorn, Jacco Vink, Joy Henegar-Leon, Rozenn Boissay-Malaquin, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Aya Bamba, Megumi Shidatsu, Satoru Katsuda, Liyi Gu, Kyoko Matsushita, Toru Tamagawa, F. Scott Porter, Michael J. DiPirro, Steven Kenyon, and High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI)

Subjects
Sun sensor, Cardinal point, Spacecraft, Robustness (computer science), Computer science, business.industry, Survivability, Control reconfiguration, Field of view, Aerospace engineering, business, Fault detection and isolation
Abstract

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) is the successor to the 2016 Hitomi mission that ended prematurely. Like Hitomi, the primary science goals are to examine astrophysical problems with precise highresolution X-ray spectroscopy. XRISM promises to discover new horizons in X-ray astronomy. XRISM carries a 6 x 6 pixelized X-ray micro-calorimeter on the focal plane of an X-ray mirror assembly and a co-aligned X-ray CCD camera that covers the same energy band over a large field of view. XRISM utilizes Hitomi heritage, but all designs were reviewed. The attitude and orbit control system were improved in hardware and software. The number of star sensors were increased from two to three to improve coverage and robustness in onboard attitude determination and to obtain a wider field of view sun sensor. The fault detection, isolation, and reconfiguration (FDIR) system was carefully examined and reconfigured. Together with a planned increase of ground support stations, the survivability of the spacecraft is significantly improved.

Published
2020

14. Discovery of recombining plasma associated with the candidate supernova remnant G189.6+3.3 with Suzaku

Author

Thomas G. Pannuti, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Moe Oya, and Shigeo Yamauchi

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Continuum (design consultancy), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Plasma, 01 natural sciences, Interstellar medium, Space and Planetary Science, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Radiative transfer, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Electronic band structure, Ejecta, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

We present the results of an X-ray spectral analysis of the northeast region of the candidate supernova remnant G189.6+3.3 with Suzaku. K-shell lines from highly ionized Ne, Mg, Si, and S were detected in the spectrum for the first time. In addition, a radiative recombining continuum (RRC) from He-like Si was clearly seen near 2.5 keV. This detection of an RRC reveals for the first time that G189.6+3.3 possesses an X-ray-emitting recombining plasma (RP). The extracted X-ray spectrum in the 0.6-10.0 keV energy band is well fitted with a model consisting of a collisional ionization equilibrium plasma component (associated with the interstellar medium) and an RP component (associated with the ejecta). The spectral feature shows that G189.6+3.3 is most likely to be a middle-aged SNR with an RP., Comment: Accepted for publication in PASJ

Published
2020
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15. Intrusion of MeV-TeV Cosmic-Rays into Molecular Clouds Studied by Ionization, the Neutral Iron Line, and Gamma-Rays

Author

Yutaka Fujita, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, and Hidetoshi Sano

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Molecular cloud, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Observable, Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Ionization, Diffusion (business), Supernova remnant, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation)
Abstract

Low-energy (∼ MeV) cosmic rays (CRs) ionize molecular clouds and create the neutral iron line (Fe i Kα) at 6.4 keV. On the other hand, high-energy (≳GeV) CRs interact with the dense cloud gas and produce gamma rays. Based on a one-dimensional model, we study the spatial correlation among ionization rates of gas, 6.4 keV line fluxes, and gamma-ray emissions from a molecular cloud illuminated by CRs accelerated at an adjacent supernova remnant. We find that the spatial distributions of these three observables depend on how CRs intrude the cloud and on the internal structure of the cloud. If the intrusion is represented by slow diffusion, the 6.4 keV line should be detected around the cloud edge where ionization rates are high. On the other hand, if CRs freely stream in the cloud, the 6.4 keV line should be observed where gamma rays are emitted. In the former, the cooling time of the CRs responsible for the 6.4 keV line is shorter than their cloud crossing time, and it is opposite in the latter. Although we compare the results with observations, we cannot conclude whether the diffusion or the free-streaming is dominantly realized. Our predictions can be checked in more detail with future X-ray missions such as XRISM and Athena and by observations of ionization rates that cover wider fields.

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2020
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16. Interaction between Molecular Clouds and MeV-TeV Cosmic-ray Protons Escaped from Supernova Remnants

Author

Hironori Matsumoto, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Yutaka Fujita, Ken Makino, and Yutaka Ohira

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Molecular cloud, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Spectral line, Supernova, Space and Planetary Science, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Nuclear Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation), Computer Science::Information Theory
Abstract

Recent discovery of the X-ray neutral iron line (Fe I K\alpha at 6.40 keV) around several supernova remnants (SNRs) show that MeV cosmic-ray (CR) protons are distributed around the SNRs and are interacting with neutral gas there. We propose that these MeV CRs are the ones that have been accelerated at the SNRs together with GeV-TeV CRs. In our analytical model, the MeV CRs are still confined in the SNR when the SNR collides with molecular clouds. After the collision, the MeV CRs leak into the clouds and produce the neutral iron line emissions. On the other hand, GeV-TeV CRs had already escaped from the SNRs and emit gamma-rays through interaction with molecular clouds surrounding the SNRs. We apply this model to the SNRs W28 and W44 and show that it can reproduce the observations of the iron line intensities and the gamma-ray spectra. This can be another support of a hadronic scenario for the gamma-ray emissions from these SNRs., Comment: Matches the version published on PASJ

Published
2019

17. Characterization of diffuse X-ray emission from IGR~J17448-3232: an implication of a line of sight merging activity

Author

Shoko Watanabe, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Shigeo Yamauchi, and Hiroki Akamatsu

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Photon, Line-of-sight, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, X-ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Plasma, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Power law, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, Cluster (physics), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

Results of the spectral analysis for the galaxy cluster IGR J17448-3232 are presented. The intracluster medium (ICM) in the central region (r34 keV or a CIE+power law model with a temperature of 9.4 keV and a photon index of 1.1. The two component models can represent the intensity ratio of Fe XXVI Ly alpha/Fe XXV He alpha lines. On the other hand, the spectrum in the outer region (r>300'') can be explained by a single CIE plasma model with a temperature of 5-8 keV. Based on the spectral feature and its circular structure, we propose that the NEI plasma was produced by merging along the line-of-sight direction., Accepted for publication in PASJ

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2019
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18. X-ray spectra of Sgr A East and diffuse X-ray background near the Galactic center

Author

Hideki Uchiyama, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Akiko Ono, Katsuji Koyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, and Kumiko K. Nobukawa

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Galactic Center, X-ray background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Surface brightness, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Supernova remnant, Sagittarius, X ray spectra, Line (formation)
Abstract

This paper reports the analysis procedure and results of simultaneous spectral fits of the Suzaku archive data for Sagittarius (Sgr) A East and the nearby Galactic center X-ray emission (GCXE). The results are that the mixed-morphology supernova remnant Sgr A East has a recombining plasma (RP) with Cr and Mn He$\alpha$ lines, and a power-law component (PL) with an Fe I K$\alpha$ line. The nearby GCXE has a $\sim$1.5-times larger surface brightness than the mean GCXE far from Sgr A East, although the spectral shape is almost identical. Based on these results, we interpret that the origins of the RP and the PL with the Fe I K$\alpha$ line are past big flares of Sgr A$^*$., Comment: Accepted for publication in PASJ

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2019
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19. Neutral iron line in the supernova remnant IC 443 and implications for MeV cosmic rays

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Shigeo Yamauchi, Arisa Hirayama, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Aika Shimaguchi, Yutaka Fujita, and Masayoshi Nobukawa

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular cloud, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Nuclear Theory, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Plasma, 01 natural sciences, Space and Planetary Science, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Supernova remnant, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Nuclear Experiment, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Equivalent width, Intensity (heat transfer), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation)
Abstract

We report a discovery of bright blob-like enhancements of an Fe I K$\alpha$ line in the northwest and the middle of the supernova remnant (SNR) IC 443. The distribution of the line emission is associated with molecular clouds interacting with the shock front, and is totally different from that of the plasma. The Fe I K$\alpha$ line has a large equivalent width. The most plausible scenario for the origin of the line emission is that the MeV protons accelerated in the shell leak into the molecular clouds and ionize the Fe atoms therein. The observed Fe I K$\alpha$ line intensity is consistent with the prediction of a theoretical model, in which MeV protons are accelerated along with GeV and TeV protons at the SNR., Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

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2019
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20. New Scenario of plasma evolution in IC 443

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Katsuji Koyama, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Shigeo Yamauchi, and Arisa Hirayama

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Plasma, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Power law, Ionizing radiation, Supernova, Quality (physics), Space and Planetary Science, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation)
Abstract

Most of young and middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs) exhibit an ionizing plasma (IP), an ionizing process following a shock heated SNR gas. On the other hand, significant fractions of SNRs exhibit a recombining plasma (RP). The origin and the mechanisms of the RP, however, are not yet well understood. This paper proposes a new model that the RP is followed after the IP process taken at the first epoch of the SNR evolution. Using the high quality and wide band (0.6-10 keV) spectrum of IC 443, we nicely fitted with a model of two RP (two-RP model) plus a power law (PL) with an Fe I Kalpha line component. The ionization temperature in one RP monotonously increases from Ne-Ca, while that in the other RP shows a drastic increase from Cr-Ni. Origin and mechanism of the two-RP and PL with an Fe I Kalpha line components are possibly due to a different evolution of two plasmas and ionization by the low-energy cosmic ray., Accepted for publication in PASJ

Published
2018

21. Screening and selection of XRISM/Xtend flight model CCD

Author

Akira Kashimura, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, Ayami Ishikura, Jin Sato, Takashi Sako, Hideki Uchiyama, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Yuki Amano, Kengo Hattori, Shotaro Sakuma, Hiroyuki Uchida, K. Mori, Yukino Urabe, Maho Hanaoka, Kouichi Hagino, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hirofumi Noda, Shogo B. Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Takaki, Hiromichi Okon, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Koki Okazaki, Kazunori Asakura, Takaaki Tanaka, Junko S. Hiraga, Tomokage Yoneyama, Mariko Saito, Hironori Matsumoto, and Hiroshi Nakajima

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Xtend, 01 natural sciences, Wide field, law.invention, Telescope, Imaging spectroscopy, Optics, law, Flight model, 0103 physical sciences, Charge-coupled device, Photonics, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

X-ray Imaging Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) is the next Japanese X-ray astronomical satellite to be launched in 2021 Japanese fiscal year. We are developing one of the XRISM instruments “Xtend”, which is an X-ray CCD camera combined with an X-ray telescope, and achieves the wide field of view of 3 8 ′ × 3 8 ′ in 0.4–13 keV. In 2019, twelve flight-model (FM) candidate CCD chips were fabricated by Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. We conducted screening experiments to examine whether the FM candidates met requirements for the Xtend CCDs, and selected the four FM chips from them. We constructed a screening system, with which we can examine various CCD performances by illuminating characteristic X-ray lines in a ∼ 0 . 5 –14 keV band or optical lights. With this system, all the twelve candidates were confirmed to satisfy the requirements. We then selected four chips with the best performance, in terms of e.g., their charge transfer inefficiencies, energy resolutions, soft X-ray sensitivities, and optical light leakages. In this paper, we report an overview of the screening system, and procedures and results of the screening process.

Published
2021

22. Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector

Author

Akio Hoshino, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Manabu Ishida, Hideki Uchiyama, Takayuki Tamura, Shunji Kitamoto, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Shinya Saito, Daisuke Yonetoku, Peter J. Serlemtsos, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Masachika Iwai, Hiroshi Nakajima, Megumi Shidatsu, Kumi Ishikawa, Hans A. Krimm, Ken Ebisawa, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Andrew C. Fabian, Brian R. McNamara, Shu Koyama, Samar Safi-Harb, Jan-Willem den Herder, R. Sato, Isamu Hatsukade, Hironori Matsumoto, Yoshitomo Maeda, Missagh Mehdipour, Teruaki Enoto, Hirokazu Odaka, Jelle de Plaa, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Francesco Tombesi, Jelle Kaastra, Richard L. Kelley, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Takuya Miyazawa, G. Sato, Yohko Tsuboi, Frederick S. Porter, Norbert Werner, Fumie Akimoto, Junko S. Hiraga, Magnus Axelsson, Shinya Yamada, Ciro Pinto, David H. Lumb, Shigeo Yamauchi, Maxim Markevitch, Yuto Ichinohe, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kosuke Sato, Koji Mori, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Yuichi Terashima, Kyoko Matsushita, Timothy R. Kallman, Philippe Laurent, Olivier Limousin, Toru Tamagawa, Luigi C. Gallo, Aya Bamba, Roger Blandford, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Cor P. de Vries, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Hirofumi Noda, Gregory V. Brown, Carlo Ferrigno, Yoshihiro Ueda, Yuusuke Uchida, Eric D. Miller, Yuichiro Ezoe, Andrea Goldwurm, Hiromi Seta, Frits Paerels, Katja Pottschmidt, Kazuhiro Sakai, Shin'ichiro Uno, Yoshito Haba, Stéphane Paltani, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Masanori Ohno, Satoshi Sugita, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Christopher S. Reynolds, Shin Mineshige, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Peter Kretschmar, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Yoh Takei, Tahir Yaqoob, Jon M. Miller, Dan R. Wilkins, Meng P. Chiao, Matteo Guainazzi, Aurora Simionescu, Hisamitsu Awaki, Paolo De Coppi, Katsuji Koyama, Masanobu Ozaki, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Yasuharu Sugawara, Daniel Maier, Tadayuki Takahashi, Jun Kataoka, Aya Kubota, Hiroyuki Uchida, Laura Brenneman, John P. Hughes, Takayoshi Kohmura, Takaaki Tanaka, Hajime Inoue, Lorella Angelini, Toru Sasaki, Greg Madejski, Shutaro Ueda, Takao Nakagawa, Tadayasu Dotani, Maria Chernyakova, Motohide Kokubun, Takao Kitaguchi, Irina Zhuravleva, Shin Watanabe, Dan McCammon, Hideyuki Mori, Randall K. Smith, Edward M. Cackett, Norbert Schartel, Margherita Giustini, Megan E. Eckart, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Liyi Gu, Chris Done, Takeshi Nakamori, Takaya Ohashi, Shiu-Hang Lee, Michael Loewenstein, Adam R. Foster, Poshak Gandhi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Kenji Hamaguchi, Satoru Katsuda, Knox S. Long, Ilana M. Harrus, Yuzuru Tawara, Hideyo Kunieda, Lukasz Stawarz, C. Megan Urry, Richard F. Mushotzky, Nobuyuki Kawai, Brian J. Williams, Tetsu Kitayama, Felix Aharonian, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Eugenio Ursino, Takayuki Hayashi, Yukikatsu Terada, Makoto Yamauchi, Yasuo Tanaka, Steven W. Allen, Kazuo Makishima, Marc Audard, Shinya Nakashima, Naomi Ota, Hiroyasu Tajima, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Ryo Iizuka, Kouichi Hagino, Yoichi Yatsu, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Koji Mukai, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Makoto Tashiro, Ann Hornschemeier, Makoto Sawada, Marshall W. Bautz, Takashi Okajima, Esra Bulbul, Yang Soong, Akihiro Furuzawa, Hiroki Akamatsu, Andrew Szymkowiak, Robert Petre, Elisa Costantini, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Hitomi, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)

Subjects
Photon, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, polarimeters [instrumentation], X-rays: individual (Crab), symbols.namesake, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Pulsar, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Nebula, polarization, Brewster's angle, Spectrometer, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, instrumentation: polarimeters, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Polarization (waves), Crab Nebula, individual (Crab) [X-rays], Space and Planetary Science, symbols, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

著者人数: 193名(所属. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所 (JAXA)(ISAS): 堂谷, 忠靖; 海老沢, 研; 林, 克洋; 飯塚, 亮; 井上, 芳幸; 石田, 学; 石川, 久美; 岩井, 将親; 国分, 紀秀; 小山, 志勇; 前田, 良知; 満田, 和久; 中川, 貴雄; 尾崎, 正伸; 佐藤, 悟郎; 佐藤, 理江; Simionescu, Aurora; 菅原, 泰晴; 高橋, 忠幸; 竹井, 洋; 田村, 隆幸; 田中, 靖郎; 冨田, 洋; 辻本, 匡弘; 上田, 周太朗; 渡辺, 伸; 山崎, 典子; 内田, 悠介), Accepted: 2018-09-30, 資料番号: SA1180351000

Published
2018

23. Soft x-ray imaging telescope (Xtend) onboard X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (XARM)

Author

Hideki Uchiyama, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takayuki Hayashi, Tomokage Yoneyama, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Takeo Shimoi, Yoshitomo Maeda, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Hironori Matsumoto, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Satomi Onishi, Isamu Hatsukade, Kazunori Asakura, Takashi Okajima, Koki Okazaki, Yusuke Nishioka, Hiroshi Murakami, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadayasu Dotani, Hiroshi Tomida, Hideyuki Mori, Makoto Yamauchi, Masayuki Yoshida, Masanobu Ozaki, Yang Soong, Koji Mori, Junichi Iwagaki, Ayaki Takeda, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Junko S. Hiraga, Hiroyuki Uchida, Kouichi Hagino, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Hiromichi Okon, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Takayoshi Kohmura, Manabu Ishida, Jin Sato, and Shogo B. Kobayashi

Subjects
Physics, X-ray astronomy, Calorimeter (particle physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Resolution (electron density), Field of view, Xtend, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite, Surface brightness, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (XARM) scheduled to be launched in early 2020’s carries two soft X-ray telescopes. One is Resolve consisting of a soft X-ray mirror and a micro calorimeter array, and the other is Soft X-ray Imaging Telescope (Xtend), a combination of an X-ray mirror assembly (XMA) and an X-ray CCD camera (SXI). Xtend covers a field of view (FOV) of 38′ × 38′ , much larger than that of Resolve (3′ × 3 ′ ) with moderate energy resolution in the energy band from 0.4 keV to 13 keV, which is similar to that of Resolve (from 0.3 keV to 12 keV). Simultaneous observations of both telescopes provide complimentary data of X-ray sources in their FOV. In particular, monitoring X-ray sources outside the Resolve FOV but inside the Xtend FOV is important to enhance the reliability of super high resolution spectra obtained with Resolve. Xtend is also expected to be one of the best instruments for low surface brightness X-ray emissions with its low non X-ray background level, which is comparable to that of Suzaku XIS. The design of Xtend is almost identical to those of Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) and Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) both on board the Hitomi satellite. However, several mandatory updates are included. Updates for the CCD chips are verified with experiment using test CCD chips before finalizing the design of the flight model CCD. Fabrication of the foils for XMA has started, and flight model production of the SXI is almost ready.

Published
2018

24. Concept of the X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission

Author

Shinya Yamada, Laura Brenneman, Yang Soong, Eric J. Miller, Kyoko Matsushita, Katja Pottschmidt, Johannes Dercksen, Hiromi Seta, Toru Tamagawa, Keiichi Matsuzaki, Yukikatsu Terada, Edgar Canavan, Rie Sato, F. Scott Porter, Hiroshi Murakami, Yoh Takei, Kimberly D. Brown, Michael J. DiPirro, Steven Kenyon, Hiroshi Tomida, Timothy R. Kallman, Richard L. Kelley, Atsushi Okamoto, Rob Wolfs, Matteo Guainazzi, Shinya Nakashima, Kenji Hamaguchi, Shin Watanabe, Lorella Angelini, Takayoshi Kohmura, Brian R. McNamara, Thomas G. Bialas, Megumi Shidatsu, Kumi Ishikawa, Aya Kubota, Takayuki Tamura, Jon M. Miller, Mark O. Kimball, Gary A. Sneiderman, Joseph Bonafede, Yoshitaka Arai, Kosei Ishimura, Mina Ogawa, A. E. Szymkowiak, Hiroshi Nakajima, Kenichi Toda, Steve Graham, Takao Kitaguchi, Makoto Sawada, Tom Lockard, Erin Kara, Yutaka Fujita, Dean Hawes, Shin'ichiro Uno, Hideyuki Mori, Kenichiro Nigo, Jan-Willem den Herder, Randall K. Smith, Luigi C. Gallo, Chikara Natsukari, Hideto Nakamura, Makoto Yamauchi, Michitaka Onizuka, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Thomas Walsh, Koji Mori, Peter Barfknecht, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Maria Diaz-Trigo, Manabu Ishida, Makoto Tashiro, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Satoru Katsuda, Cor P. de Vries, M. Ohno, Zhuravleva Irina, Meng P. Chiao, Aurora Simionescu, Kim Barnstable, Cailey Hegarty, Aya Bamba, Naomi Ota, Joseph Miko, M. Loewenstein, Connor Martz, Hirokazu Odaka, Ann Hornschemeier, Carlo Ferrigno, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, B. Blagojević, Liyi Gu, Masanobu Ozaki, Kenji Minesugi, Kazunori Someya, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Junko S. Hiraga, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Shogo B. Kobayashi, Greg Brown, C. Brambora, Hiroyuki Uchida, Richard F. Mushotzky, Peter Shirron, Chris Done, Dan McCammon, Natalie Hell, Laura A. Burns, Kazunori Ishibashi, Brian J. Williams, Jaime Zabala, Brian Comber, Hironori Matsumoto, Matthew Holland, Teruaki Enoto, Stéphane Paltani, Yusuke Nishioka, Tim Carnahan, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Takayuki Hayashi, Lurli Babyk, Maki Shida, Ken Shelton, Isamu Hatsukade, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kosuke Sato, Yoshihiro Ueda, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Yasuharu Suagawara, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Susumu Yasuda, S. Koyama, Hironori Maejima, Lia Corrales, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Yoshitomo Maeda, Yasushi Fukazawa, Hisamitsu Awaki, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadayasu Dotani, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, J. V. Lobell, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Hirofumi Noda, Lillian Reichenthal, Yuichi Terashima, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Lynette Marbley, Tahir Yaqoob, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Ken Ebisawa, Kohichi Hagino, Martin Grim, Bryan L. James, Yohko Tsuboi, Shigeo Yamauchi, Maxim Markevitch, Yuto Ichinohe, Tyrone DIllard, Nasa Yoshioka, Akio Hoshino, Hideki Uchiyama, Shunji Kitamoto, Paul P. Plucinsky, Mark Edison, Yuichiro Ezoe, Yasuko Shibano, Koji Mukai, Michael R. Wright, Ryo Iizuka, Masayuki Ohta, Keiichi Yanagase, Hiroki Akamatsu, Robert Petre, Elisa Costantini, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Takashi Okajima, and Akihiro Furuzawa

Subjects
X-ray astronomy, Attitude control system, COSMIC cancer database, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Computer science, Energy transfer, media_common.quotation_subject, High resolution, Field of view, 01 natural sciences, Universe, 0103 physical sciences, Aerospace engineering, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Event (particle physics), media_common
Abstract

The ASTRO-H mission was designed and developed through an international collaboration of JAXA, NASA, ESA, and the CSA. It was successfully launched on February 17, 2016, and then named Hitomi. During the in-orbit verification phase, the on-board observational instruments functioned as expected. The intricate coolant and refrigeration systems for soft X-ray spectrometer (SXS, a quantum micro-calorimeter) and soft X-ray imager (SXI, an X-ray CCD) also functioned as expected. However, on March 26, 2016, operations were prematurely terminated by a series of abnormal events and mishaps triggered by the attitude control system. These errors led to a fatal event: the loss of the solar panels on the Hitomi mission. The X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (or, XARM) is proposed to regain the key scientific advances anticipated by the international collaboration behind Hitomi. XARM will recover this science in the shortest time possible by focusing on one of the main science goals of Hitomi,“Resolving astrophysical problems by precise high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy”.1 This decision was reached after evaluating the performance of the instruments aboard Hitomi and the mission’s initial scientific results, and considering the landscape of planned international X-ray astrophysics missions in 2020’s and 2030’s. Hitomi opened the door to high-resolution spectroscopy in the X-ray universe. It revealed a number of discrepancies between new observational results and prior theoretical predictions. Yet, the resolution pioneered by Hitomi is also the key to answering these and other fundamental questions. The high spectral resolution realized by XARM will not offer mere refinements; rather, it will enable qualitative leaps in astrophysics and plasma physics. XARM has therefore been given a broad scientific charge: “Revealing material circulation and energy transfer in cosmic plasmas and elucidating evolution of cosmic structures and objects”. To fulfill this charge, four categories of science objectives that were defined for Hitomi will also be pursued by XARM; these include (1) Structure formation of the Universe and evolution of clusters of galaxies; (2) Circulation history of baryonic matters in the Universe; (3) Transport and circulation of energy in the Universe; (4) New science with unprecedented high resolution X-ray spectroscopy. In order to achieve these scientific objectives, XARM will carry a 6 × 6 pixelized X-ray micro-calorimeter on the focal plane of an X-ray mirror assembly, and an aligned X-ray CCD camera covering the same energy band and a wider field of view. This paper introduces the science objectives, mission concept, and observing plan of XARM.

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2018

25. Hitomi (ASTRO-H) X-ray Astronomy Satellite

Author

Laura Brenneman, Hironori Matsumoto, Kirk Gilmore, Takayuki Yuasa, D. Lumb, Manabu Ishida, Aurora Simionescu, Takao Nakagawa, Junichiro Katsuta, Esra Bulbul, Meng P. Chiao, Philippe Laurent, Jelle de Plaa, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Keith Arnaud, Keiji Ogi, John P. Doty, B. Ramsey, Yuzuru Tawara, C. Megan Urry, Eric D. Miller, Peter Shirron, Gregory V. Brown, Dan R. Wilkins, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Richard F. Mushotzky, Nobuyuki Kawai, Brian J. Williams, Steven W. Allen, Naoko Iyomoto, Taro Kawano, Katja Pottschmidt, Yang Soong, Tadayuki Takahashi, Yasuharu Sugawara, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Margherita Giustini, Greg Madejski, Tetsu Kitayama, Megumi Shidatsu, Hideyuki Mori, Łukasz Stawarz, Randall K. Smith, Satoshi Sugita, Norbert Schartel, James Pontius, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Eugenio Ursino, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Toshio Nakano, Satoru Katsuda, Cor P. de Vries, Adam R. Foster, Masanobu Ozaki, Kenji Minesugi, Tomomi Watanabe, Yuichi Terashima, Christopher S. Reynolds, Hiroaki Sameshima, Alex Koujelev, Naohisa Anabuki, Isamu Hatsukade, Masaharu Nomachi, Yoichi Yatsu, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Steve O' Dell, Ann Hornschemeier, Akio Hoshino, Yasuo Tanaka, M. Pohl, Kyoko Matsushita, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Hideki Uchiyama, Mark O. Kimball, Arvind Parmar, Gary A. Sneiderman, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Toru Tamagawa, Yukikatsu Terada, Shinya Nakashima, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Dmitry Khangulyan, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Rie Sato, Aya Bamba, Roger Blandford, Kazunori Ishibashi, Shinya Saito, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Toshio Murakami, Takeda Shin'ichiro, Missagh Mehdipour, Motohide Kokubun, Masachika Iwai, Dan McCammon, Michael J. DiPirro, Marshall W. Bautz, Shunji Kitamoto, Naomi Ota, Brian R. McNamara, Frits Paerels, Stéphane Paltani, Magnus Axelsson, Edgar Canavan, Nobutaka Bando, Peter J. Serlemitsos, Shu Koyama, Felix Aharonian, Matteo Guainazzi, Joseph Miko, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Thomas G. Bialas, Koji Mori, Makoto Yamauchi, Uno Shin'ichiro, Hirokazu Odaka, Toru Sasaki, Mina Ogawa, Philipp Azzarello, Atsushi Wada, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Ken Ebisawa, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Yoshitomo Maeda, Jon M. Miller, A. L. King, Cynthia Simmons, Hirofumi Noda, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Carlo Ferrigno, Hiroyasu Tajima, Kazuo Makishima, Erin Kara, Fumie Akimoto, Shigeo Kawasaki, Kumi Ishikawa, Kosuke Sato, Hiroshi Nakajima, Knox S. Long, Jun Kataoka, Keisuke Shinozaki, Kazuyuki Hirose, Keisuke Tamura, Teruaki Enoto, Yoh Takei, Yoshito Haba, Shinya Yamada, Richard L. Kelley, Yoshihiro Ueda, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, Shin-ichiro Sakai, Kevin R. Boyce, D. Haas, Atsushi Okamoto, Kazuhiro Sakai, Ryo Nagino, Makoto Asai, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Michael Loewenstein, Daniel R. Wik, Yohko Tsuboi, Maria Chernyakova, Shiro Ueno, Koji Mukai, Hiroshi Murakami, Takeshi Nakamori, Hiroshi Tomida, Tahir Yaqoob, Norbert Werner, Paolo Coppi, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Shin Watanabe, Kosei Ishimura, Hideyo Kunieda, Candace Masters, Yusuke Nishioka, Shigeo Yamauchi, Maxim Markevitch, Yuto Ichinohe, Andrew C. Fabian, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Kenji Hamaguchi, Liyi Gu, Edward M. Cackett, Chris Done, Junko S. Hiraga, Chris Baluta, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Maki Shida, Makoto Tashiro, Takanobu Shimada, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Ilana M. Harrus, Naoko Iwata, Timothy R. Kallman, Takuya Miyazawa, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Madoka Kawaharada, Hisamitsu Awaki, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadayasu Dotani, Goro Sato, Ciro Pinto, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Harvey Moseley, Yoshiharu Namba, Shutaro Ueda, Masayuki Itoh, Takayoshi Kohmura, Daisuke Yonetoku, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Hans A. Krimm, Hiromi Seta, Atsumasa Yoshida, Kouichi Hagino, Yuichiro Ezoe, Samar Safi-Harb, John P. Hughes, Daniel Maier, Hajime Inoue, Lorella Angelini, Yasuko Shibano, Frederick S. Porter, Saori Konami, Takayuki Tamura, Shin Mineshige, Peter Kretschmar, Yoichi Sato, Helen Russell, Hiroyuki Uchida, Elisa Costantini, Chikara Natsukari, Housei Nagano, Jan-Willem den Herder, Francesco Tombesi, Jelle Kaastra, Daniel S. McGuinness, Masanori Ohno, Hiroyuki Sugita, Katsuji Koyama, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Theodore Muench, Shiu-Hang Lee, Poshak Gandhi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Stefan Funk, Luigi C. Gallo, Tatsuro Kosaka, Andrea Goldwurm, Ryo Iizuka, Masayuki Ohta, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Marc Audard, Makoto Sawada, Takashi Okajima, Franco Moroso, Akihiro Furuzawa, Aya Kubota, Chris Jewell, Olivier Limousin, Takayuki Hayashi, Takao Kitaguchi, Takahiro Yamada, Hiroki Akamatsu, Andrew Szymkowiak, Robert Petre, Irina Zhuravleva, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Climate and Environmental Physics [Bern] (CEP), Physikalisches Institut [Bern], Universität Bern [Bern]-Universität Bern [Bern], Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory (CAL), Columbia University [New York], Stockholm University, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University [Stanford], AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Stanford University, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE)-Universität Bern [Bern] (UNIBE), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Space operations, X-ray telescope, microcalorimeter, 01 natural sciences, x-ray astronomy, 010309 optics, gamma-ray astronomy, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Remote sensing, [PHYS]Physics [physics], X-ray astronomy, Spacecraft, business.industry, Mechanical Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, hard x-ray, Gamma-ray astronomy, First light, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Spacecraft system, x-ray, Space and Planetary Science, Control and Systems Engineering, gamma ray, Satellite, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

著者人数: 270名（所属. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS): 高橋, 忠幸; 国分, 紀秀; 満田, 和久; Baluta, Chris; 坂東, 信尚; 堂谷, 忠靖; 海老沢, 研; 林, 克洋; 廣瀬, 和之; 飯塚, 亮; 石田, 学; 石川, 久美; 石村, 康生; 岩井, 将親; 岩田, 直子; 河野, 太郎; 川崎, 繁男; 小山, 志勇; 前田, 良知; 峯杉, 賢治; 中川, 貴雄; 夏苅, 権; 小川, 博之; 小川, 美奈; 太田, 方之; 岡崎, 健; 尾崎, 正伸; 坂井, 真一郎; 鮫島, 寛明; 佐藤, 悟郎; 佐藤, 理江; 柴野, 靖子; 志田, 真樹; 嶋田, 貴信; Simionescu, Aurora; 菅原, 泰晴; 竹井, 洋; 田村, 隆幸; 田中, 靖郎; 田代, 信; 冨田, 洋; 辻本, 匡弘; 上田, 周太朗; 上野, 史郎; 和田, 篤始; 渡辺, 伸; 山田, 隆弘; 山崎, 典子）, Number of authors: 270 (Affiliation. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS): Takahashi, Tadayuki; Kokubun, Motohide; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; Baluta, Chris; Bando, Nobutaka; Dotani, Tadayasu; Ebisawa, Ken; Hayashi, Katsuhiro; Hirose, Kazuyuki; Iizuka, Ryo; Ishida, Manabu; Ishikawa, Kumi; Ishimura, Kosei; Iwai, Masachika; Iwata, Naoko; Kawano, Taro; Kawasaki, Shigeo; Koyama, Shu; Maeda, Yoshitomo; Minesugi, Kenji; Nakagawa, Takao; Natsukari, Chikara; Ogawa, Hiroyuki; Ogawa, Mina; Ohta, Masayuki; Okazaki, Tsuyoshi; Ozaki, Masanobu; Sakai, Shinichiro; Sameshima, Hiroaki; Sato, Goro; Sato, Rie; Shibano, Yasuko; Shida, Maki; Shimada, Takanobu; Simionescu, Aurora; Sugawara, Yasuharu; Takei, Yoh; Tamura, Takayuki; Tanaka, Yasuo; Tashiro, Makoto; Tomida, Hiroshi; Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Ueda, Shutaro; Ueno, Shiro; Wada, Atsushi; Watanabe, Shin; Yamada, Takahiro; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.), Accepted: 2018-02-05, 資料番号: SA1170333000

Published
2018

27. Measurements of resonant scattering in the Perseus Cluster core with Hitomi SXS

Author

Randall Smith, Hirokazu Odaka, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Shin Watanabe, Hiroki Akamatsu, Goro Sato, Robert Petre, Ciro Pinto, G. U. Liyi, Shinya Yamada, Michael Loewenstein, Shutaro Ueda, Chris Done, Kazuhiro Sakai, Koji Mori, Kenji Hamaguchi, Elisa Costantini, Ilana M. Harrus, Carlo Ferrigno, Norbert Schartel, Yang Soong, Takayoshi Kohmura, Satoru Katsuda, Knox S. Long, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Isamu Hatsukade, Ryo Iizuka, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Kouichi Hagino, Yuichiro Ezoe, Hironori Matsumoto, Makoto Sawada, Takashi Okajima, Akihiro Furuzawa, Francesco Tombesi, Kazuo Makishima, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Caroline A. Kilbourne, H. Tomida, Eugenio Ursino, Kumi Ishikawa, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Jon M. Miller, Jun Kataoka, Cor P. de Vries, Hiromi Seta, Yuichi Terashima, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Takao Nakagawa, L. E.E. Shiu-Hang, Marshall W. Bautz, Yukikatsu Terada, Christopher S. Reynolds, Teruaki Enoto, Missagh Mehdipour, Motohide Kokubun, Andrew E. Szymkowiak, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Meng P. Chiao, John P. Hughes, Yohko Tsuboi, Norbert Werner, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Peter J. Serlemtsos, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Katsuji Koyama, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Daniel Maier, Hajime Inoue, Lorella Angelini, Aurora Simionescu, Hiroshi Nakajima, Kosuke Sato, Yoshitomo Maeda, David H. Lumb, Fumie Akimoto, Margherita Giustini, Manabu Ishida, Esra Bulbul, Shigeo Yamauchi, Maxim Markevitch, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Yuto Ichinohe, Makoto Yamauchi, Hans A. Krimm, Masanori Ohno, Anna Ogorzalek, Yoshihiro Ueda, Yoshito Haba, Steven W. Allen, Maki Furukawa, Kyoko Matsushita, Samar Safi-Harb, B. J. Williams, Stéphane Paltani, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Yuzuru Tawara, Timothy R. Kallman, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Junko S. Hiraga, Magnus Axelsson, O. T.A. Naomi, Toru Tamagawa, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Rie Sato, Takuya Miyazawa, Maria Chernyakova, Akio Hoshino, Hirofumi Noda, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Frits Paerels, Hisamitsu Awaki, Jan-Willem den Herder, Yasuo Tanaka, Yasuharu Sugawara, U. N.O. Shiníchiro, Łukasz Stawarz, Takaaki Tanaka, Matteo Guainazzi, Tadayasu Dotani, Hideki Uchiyama, Toru Sasaki, Jelle Kaastra, Koji Mukai, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Luigi C. Gallo, Edward M. Cackett, Shunji Kitamoto, Shinya Saito, Laura Brenneman, Takao Kitaguchi, Paolo De Coppi, Yoichi Yatsu, Masachika Iwai, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, Richard F. Mushotzky, Andrew C. Fabian, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Tahir Yaqoob, Daisuke Yonetoku, Hideyo Kunieda, Nobuyuki Kawai, Megumi Shidatsu, Brian R. McNamara, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Tetsu Kitayama, Shu Koyama, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Ken Ebisawa, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Takeshi Nakamori, Felix Aharonian, Aya Bamba, Ann Hornschemeier, Roger Blandford, Adam R. Foster, Takayuki Hayashi, Philippe Laurent, Makoto Tashiro, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Gregory V. Brown, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Jelle de Plaa, Dan R. Wilkins, Tadayuki Takahashi, Marc Audard, Hiroshi Murakami, Greg Madejski, Hideyuki Mori, Shinya Nakashima, Hiroyasu Tajima, Satoshi Sugita, Masanobu Ozaki, Katja Pottschmidt, C. Megan Urry, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Dan McCammon, Shin Mineshige, Peter Kretschmar, Richard L. Kelley, Yoh Takei, Poshak Gandhi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Eric D. Miller, Takayuki Tamura, Aya Kubota, Irina Zhuravleva, Andrea Goldwurm, Frederick S. Porter, Hiroyuki Uchida, Olivier Limousin, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Hitomi, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), AstroParticule et Cosmologie ( APC - UMR 7164 ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA )

Subjects
galaxies: clusters: individual, galaxies: clusters: intracluster medium, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, clusters: individual (Perseus Cluster) [galaxies], 01 natural sciences, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Radiative transfer, Emission spectrum, Spectral resolution, 010306 general physics, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation), High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational physics, Amplitude, clusters: intracluster medium [galaxies], Space and Planetary Science, X-rays: galaxies: clusters, galaxies: clusters [X-rays], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

著者人数: Hitomi Collaboration 194名（所属. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS): 堂谷, 忠靖; 海老沢, 研; 林, 克洋; 飯塚, 亮; 井上, 芳幸; 石田, 学; 石川, 久美; 岩井, 将親; 国分, 紀秀; 小山, 志勇; 前田, 良知; 満田, 和久; 中川, 貴雄; 尾崎, 正伸; 佐藤, 悟郎; 佐藤, 理江; Simionescu, Aurora; 菅原, 泰晴; 高橋, 忠幸; 竹井, 洋; 田村, 隆幸; 田中, 靖郎; 冨田, 洋; 辻本, 匡弘; 上田, 周太朗; 渡辺, 伸; 山崎, 典子）, Number of authors: Hitomi Collaboration 194 (Affiliation. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS): Dotani, Tadayasu; Ebisawa, Ken; Hayashi, Katsuhiro; Iizuka, Ryo; Inoue, Yoshiyuki; Ishida, Manabu; Ishikawa, Kumi; Iwai, Masachika; Kokubun, Motohide; Koyama, Shu; Maeda, Yoshitomo; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; Nakagawa, Takao; Ozaki, Masanobu; Sato, Goro; Sato, Rie; Simionescu, Aurora; Sugawara, Yasuharu; Takahashi, Tadayuki; Takei, Yoh; Tamura, Takayuki; Tanaka, Yasuo; Tomida, Hiroshi; Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Ueda, Shutaro; Watanabe, Shin; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.), Accepted: 2017-10-08, 資料番号: SA1170335000

Published
2018

28. Glimpse of the highly obscured HMXB IGR J16318-4848 with Hitomi

Author

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu, Fumie Akimoto, Steven W Allen, Lorella Angelini, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki, Magnus Axelsson, Aya Bamba, Marshall W Bautz, Roger Blandford, Laura W Brenneman, Gregory V Brown, Esra Bulbul, Edward M Cackett, Maria Chernyakova, Meng P Chiao, Paolo S Coppi, Elisa Costantini, Jelle de Plaa, Cor P de Vries, Jan-Willem den Herder, Chris Done, Tadayasu Dotani, Ken Ebisawa, Megan E Eckart, Teruaki Enoto, Yuichiro Ezoe, Andrew C Fabian, Carlo Ferrigno, Adam R Foster, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Yasushi Fukazawa, Akihiro Furuzawa, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Luigi C Gallo, Poshak Gandhi, Margherita Giustini, Andrea Goldwurm, Liyi Gu, Matteo Guainazzi, Yoshito Haba, Kouichi Hagino, Kenji Hamaguchi, Ilana M Harrus, Isamu Hatsukade, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Takayuki Hayashi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Junko S Hiraga, Ann Hornschemeier, Akio Hoshino, John P Hughes, Yuto Ichinohe, Ryo Iizuka, Hajime Inoue, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Manabu Ishida, Kumi Ishikawa, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Masachika Iwai, Jelle Kaastra, Tim Kallman, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Jun Kataoka, Satoru Katsuda, Nobuyuki Kawai, Richard L Kelley, Caroline A Kilbourne, Takao Kitaguchi, Shunji Kitamoto, Tetsu Kitayama, Takayoshi Kohmura, Motohide Kokubun, Katsuji Koyama, Shu Koyama, Peter Kretschmar, Hans A Krimm, Aya Kubota, Hideyo Kunieda, Philippe Laurent, Shiu-Hang Lee, Maurice A Leutenegger, Olivier O Limousin, Michael Loewenstein, Knox S Long, David Lumb, Greg Madejski, Yoshitomo Maeda, Daniel Maier, Kazuo Makishima, Maxim Markevitch, Hironori Matsumoto, Kyoko Matsushita, Dan McCammon, Brian R McNamara, Missagh Mehdipour, Eric D Miller, Jon M Miller, Shin Mineshige, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Takuya Miyazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hideyuki Mori, Koji Mori, Koji Mukai, Hiroshi Murakami, Richard F Mushotzky, Takao Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takeshi Nakamori, Shinya Nakashima, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Kumiko K Nobukawa, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hirofumi Noda, Hirokazu Odaka, Takaya Ohashi, Masanori Ohno, Takashi Okajima, Naomi Ota, Masanobu Ozaki, Frits Paerels, Stéphane Paltani, Robert Petre, Ciro Pinto, Frederick S Porter, Katja Pottschmidt, Christopher S Reynolds, Samar Safi-Harb, Shinya Saito, Kazuhiro Sakai, Toru Sasaki, Goro Sato, Kosuke Sato, Rie Sato, Makoto Sawada, Norbert Schartel, Peter J Serlemtsos, Hiromi Seta, Megumi Shidatsu, Aurora Simionescu, Randall K Smith, Yang Soong, Łukasz Stawarz, Yasuharu Sugawara, Satoshi Sugita, Andrew Szymkowiak, Hiroyasu Tajima, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shiníchiro Takeda, Yoh Takei, Toru Tamagawa, Takayuki Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Yasuo Tanaka, Yasuyuki T 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, Shiníchiro Uno, C Megan Urry, Eugenio Ursino, Shin Watanabe, Norbert Werner, Dan R Wilkins, Brian J Williams, Shinya Yamada, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Noriko Y Yamasaki, Makoto Yamauchi, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tahir Yaqoob, Yoichi Yatsu, Daisuke Yonetoku, Irina Zhuravleva, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Nozomi Nakaniwa, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Hitomi, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)

Subjects
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, X-rays: binaries, general [binaries], Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, individual (IGR J16318-4848) [stars], Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Continuum (set theory), 010306 general physics, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Line (formation), Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Scattering, stars: individual (IGR J16318-4848), Astronomy and Astrophysics, binaries: general, Space and Planetary Science, binaries [X-rays], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Energy (signal processing), Doppler broadening
Abstract

著者人数: Hitomi Collaboration 193名（所属. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS): 堂谷, 忠靖; 海老沢, 研; 萩野, 浩一; 林, 克洋; 飯塚, 亮; 井上, 芳幸; 石田, 学; 石川, 久美; 岩井, 将親; 国分, 紀秀; 小山, 志勇; 前田, 良知; 満田, 和久; 中川, 貴雄; 尾崎, 正伸; 佐藤, 悟郎; 佐藤, 理江; Simionescu, Aurora; 菅原, 泰晴; 高橋, 忠幸; 竹井, 洋; 田村, 隆幸; 冨田, 洋; 辻本, 匡弘; 上田, 周太朗; 渡辺, 伸; 山崎, 典子; 中庭, 望）, Number of authors: Hitomi Collaboration 193 (Affiliation. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS): Dotani, Tadayasu; Ebisawa, Ken; Hagino, Kouichi; Hayashi, Katsuhiro; Iizuka, Ryo; Inoue, Yoshiyuki; Ishida, Manabu; Ishikawa, Kumi; Iwai, Masachika; Kokubun, Motohide; Koyama, Shu; Maeda, Yoshitomo; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; Nakagawa, Takao; Ozaki, Masanobu; Sato, Goro; Sato, Rie; Simionescu, Aurora; Sugawara, Yasuharu; Takahashi, Tadayuki; Takei, Yoh; Tamura, Takayuki; Tomida, Hiroshi; Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Ueda, Shutaro; Watanabe, Shin; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.), Masahiro; Ueda, Shutaro; Watanabe, Shin; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.; Nakaniwa, Nozomi), Accepted: 2017-11-02, 資料番号: SA1170342000

Published
2018

29. Hitomi X-ray observation of the pulsar wind nebula G21.5$−$0.9

Author

Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Chris Done, Takeshi Nakamori, Hirofumi Noda, Philippe Laurent, Gregory V. Brown, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Luigi C. Gallo, Andrea Goldwurm, Akio Hoshino, Edward M. Cackett, Makoto Tashiro, Yoichi Yatsu, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Makoto Yamauchi, Makoto Sawada, Esra Bulbul, Yasuo Tanaka, Katsuji Koyama, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Jon M. Miller, Takashi Okajima, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Yang Soong, Daisuke Yonetoku, Peter J. Serlemtsos, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Hans A. Krimm, Akihiro Furuzawa, Olivier Limousin, Shiu-Hang Lee, Takao Kitaguchi, Laura Brenneman, Hideki Uchiyama, Samar Safi-Harb, Koji Mukai, Poshak Gandhi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Ann Hornschemeier, Marc Audard, Hiroki Akamatsu, Andrew Szymkowiak, D. Lumb, Koji Mori, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Jan-Willem den Herder, Robert Petre, Shinya Saito, Aya Kubota, Takayuki Hayashi, Shinya Nakashima, Carlo Ferrigno, Eric D. Miller, Shin'ichiro Uno, Masachika Iwai, Dan McCammon, Takao Nakagawa, Irina Zhuravleva, Satoshi Sugita, Naomi Ota, Nozomu Nakaniwa, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Richard L. Kelley, Missagh Mehdipour, Motohide Kokubun, Dan R. Wilkins, Tadayuki Takahashi, Marshall W. Bautz, Francesco Tombesi, Jelle Kaastra, Katja Pottschmidt, Shunji Kitamoto, Masanobu Ozaki, Yuzuru Tawara, Margherita Giustini, Ken Ebisawa, Ryo Iizuka, Greg Madejski, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Shin Mineshige, Toshiki Sato, Liyi Gu, Hiroyasu Tajima, Aya Bamba, Roger Blandford, Yuichi Terashima, C. Megan Urry, Richard F. Mushotzky, Peter Kretschmar, Kosuke Sato, Knox S. Long, Steven W. Allen, Hideyuki Mori, Hiroyuki Uchida, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kyoko Matsushita, Nobuyuki Kawai, Brian J. Williams, Hiroshi Murakami, Tetsu Kitayama, Randall K. Smith, Hiroshi Tomida, Norbert Schartel, Toru Tamagawa, Łukasz Stawarz, Rie Sato, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Hisamitsu Awaki, Takaaki Tanaka, Frits Paerels, Tadayasu Dotani, Yasuharu Sugawara, Ciro Pinto, Paolo Coppi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Frederick S. Porter, Matteo Guainazzi, Isamu Hatsukade, Toru Sasaki, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Kouichi Hagino, Yuichiro Ezoe, Megumi Shidatsu, Kumi Ishikawa, Takayuki Tamura, Stéphane Paltani, Hideyo Kunieda, Eugenio Ursino, Adam R. Foster, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Yoh Takei, Yoshito Haba, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Elisa Costantini, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Takayoshi Kohmura, Maria Chernyakova, Shin Watanabe, Aurora Simionescu, Hiroshi Nakajima, Satoru Katsuda, Magnus Axelsson, Meng P. Chiao, Jelle de Plaa, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Yohko Tsuboi, Norbert Werner, Andrew C. Fabian, Kazuo Makishima, Fumie Akimoto, Jun Kataoka, Brian R. McNamara, Shigeo Yamauchi, Maxim Markevitch, Yuto Ichinohe, Shu Koyama, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Tahir Yaqoob, Hironori Matsumoto, Yoshitomo Maeda, Cor P. de Vries, Benson Guest, Masanori Ohno, Christopher S. Reynolds, Hirokazu Odaka, Michael Loewenstein, Kenji Hamaguchi, Ilana M. Harrus, Manabu Ishida, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Yukikatsu Terada, Hiroaki Murakami, Timothy R. Kallman, Takuya Miyazawa, Shinya Yamada, Kazuhiro Sakai, Felix Aharonian, Junko S. Hiraga, Hiromi Seta, Teruaki Enoto, John P. Hughes, Daniel Maier, Hajime Inoue, Lorella Angelini, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Goro Sato, Shutaro Ueda, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Hitomi, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), AstroParticule et Cosmologie ( APC - UMR 7164 ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)

Subjects
Photon, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, pulsars: individual (PSRJ1833-1034), 01 natural sciences, Pulsar wind nebula, Power law, Spectral line, 010309 optics, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Pulsar, 0103 physical sciences, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ISM: supernova remnants, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Spectrometer, supernova remnants [ISM], individual (PSR J1833-1034) [pulsars], Astronomy and Astrophysics, ISM: individual objects (G21.5-0.9), Space and Planetary Science, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, individual objects (G21.5-0.9) [ISM], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

著者人数: 196名(所属. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS): 堂谷, 忠靖; 海老沢, 研; 林, 克洋; 飯塚, 亮; 井上, 芳幸; 石田, 学; 石川, 久美; 岩井, 将親; 国分, 紀秀; 小山, 志勇; 前田, 良知; 満田, 和久; 中川, 貴雄; 尾崎, 正伸; 佐藤, 悟郎; 佐藤, 理江; Simionescu, Aurora; 菅原, 泰晴; 高橋, 忠幸; 竹井, 洋; 田村, 隆幸; 田中, 靖郎; 冨田, 洋; 辻本, 匡弘; 上田, 周太朗; 渡辺, 伸; 山崎, 典子; 佐藤, 寿紀; 中庭, 望), Number of authors: Hitomi Collaboration 197 (Affiliation. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS): Dotani, Tadayasu; Ebisawa, Ken; Hayashi, Katsuhiro; Hayashi, Tasuku; Iizuka, Ryo; Inoue, Yoshiyuki; Ishida, Manabu; Ishikawa, Kumi; Iwai, Masachika; Kokubun, Motohide; Koyama, Shu; Maeda, Yoshitomo; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; Nakagawa, Takao; Ozaki, Masanobu; Sato, Goro; Sato, Rie; Simionescu, Aurora; Sugawara, Yasuharu; Takahashi, Tadayuki; Takei, Yoh; Tamura, Takayuki; Tanaka, Yasuo; Tomida, Hiroshi; Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Ueda, Shutaro; Watanabe, Shin; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.; Sato, Toshiki; Nakaniwa, Nozomu), Accepted: 2018-02-14, 資料番号: SA1180104000

Published
2018

30. Hitomi observation of radio galaxy NGC 1275: The first X-ray microcalorimeter spectroscopy of Fe-K$\alpha$ line emission from an active galactic nucleus

Author

Yasuo Tanaka, Hideki Uchiyama, Takao Nakagawa, Margherita Giustini, Shunji Kitamoto, Peter J. Serlemitsos, Marc Audard, Jon M. Miller, Kumi Ishikawa, Hirokazu Odaka, Yuzuru Tawara, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kosuke Sato, Koji Mukai, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Yasuharu Sugawara, Yoshihiro Ueda, C. Megan Urry, Richard F. Mushotzky, Nobuyuki Kawai, Ann Hornschemeier, Katja Pottschmidt, Aya Kubota, Hironori Matsumoto, Richard L. Kelley, Brian J. Williams, Luigi C. Gallo, Tetsu Kitayama, Megumi Shidatsu, Felix Aharonian, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Paolo De Coppi, Teruaki Enoto, David H. Lumb, Shin Mineshige, Kyoko Matsushita, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Tahir Yaqoob, Irina Zhuravleva, Olivier Limousin, Steven W. Allen, Eugenio Ursino, Toru Tamagawa, Missagh Mehdipour, Adam R. Foster, Jan-Willem den Herder, Takayuki Hayashi, Rie Sato, Peter Kretschmar, Taiki Kawamuro, Aurora Simionescu, Makoto Yamauchi, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Manabu Ishida, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Shiu-Hang Lee, Michael Loewenstein, Frits Paerels, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Meng P. Chiao, Takao Kitaguchi, Kenji Hamaguchi, Aya Bamba, Matteo Guainazzi, Kouichi Hagino, Philippe Laurent, Jelle de Plaa, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Kazuo Makishima, Toru Sasaki, Roger Blandford, Koji Mori, Timothy R. Kallman, Ilana M. Harrus, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Laura Brenneman, Hiroki Akamatsu, Francesco Tombesi, Daisuke Yonetoku, Jelle Kaastra, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Makoto Tashiro, Andrew Szymkowiak, Satoru Katsuda, Esra Bulbul, Hans A. Krimm, Eric D. Miller, Shin'ichiro Uno, Andrea Goldwurm, Hirofumi Noda, Knox S. Long, Samar Safi-Harb, Yoshitomo Maeda, Stephane Ṕaltani, Carlo Ferrigno, Yang Soong, Liyi Gu, Satoshi Sugita, Hiroshi Nakajima, Cor P. de Vries, Marshall W. Bautz, Robert Petre, Yuichi Terashima, Masanori Ohno, Christopher S. Reynolds, Shinya Nakashima, Shinya Saito, Hisamitsu Awaki, Yoh Takei, Yoshito Haba, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Masanobu Ozaki, Katsuji Koyama, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Takaaki Tanaka, Yuichiro Ezoe, Masachika Iwai, Tadayasu Dotani, Jun Kataoka, Naomi Ota, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Yohko Tsuboi, Takuya Miyazawa, Dan R. Wilkins, Norbert Werner, Fumie Akimoto, Motohide Kokubun, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Gregory V. Brown, Elisa Costantini, Megan E. Eckart, Shigeo Yamauchi, Maxim Markevitch, Yuto Ichinohe, Tadayuki Takahashi, Goro Sato, Takaya Ohashi, Poshak Gandhi, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Hiroyasu Tajima, Maria Chernyakova, Shin Watanabe, Hideyo Kunieda, Greg Madejski, Dan McCammon, Shutaro Ueda, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Junko S. Hiraga, Magnus Axelsson, Lukasz Stawarz, Hiroshi Murakami, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Frederick S. Porter, Hiromi Seta, Ken Ebisawa, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Hideyuki Mori, Hiroshi Tomida, Randall K. Smith, Edward M. Cackett, Hiroyuki Uchida, Chris Done, Takayuki Tamura, Norbert Schartel, John P. Hughes, Daniel Maier, Hajime Inoue, Lorella Angelini, Takeshi Nakamori, Ryo Iizuka, Andrew C. Fabian, Yoichi Yatsu, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Brian R. McNamara, Ciro Pinto, Shu Koyama, Makoto Sawada, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Takashi Okajima, Akihiro Furuzawa, Takayoshi Kohmura, Isamu Hatsukade, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Shinya Yamada, Kazuhiro Sakai, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Yukikatsu Terada, Akio Hoshino, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Hitomi, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), AstroParticule et Cosmologie ( APC - UMR 7164 ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Active galactic nucleus, Radio galaxy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, individual (NGC 1275) [galaxies], [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: active, observational [methods], galaxies: radio galaxy, radio galaxy [galaxies], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 010309 optics, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, galaxies: individual (NGC 1275), Spectroscopy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Torus, Galaxy, galaxies [X-rays], Full width at half maximum, X-rays: galaxies, Space and Planetary Science, active [galaxies], H-alpha, methods: observational, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Equivalent width
Abstract

著者人数: Hitomi Collaboration 193名（所属. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS): 堂谷, 忠靖; 海老沢, 研; 萩野, 浩一; 林, 克洋; 飯塚, 亮; 井上, 芳幸; 石田, 学; 石川, 久美; 岩井, 将親; 国分, 紀秀; 小山, 志勇; Lee, Shiu-Hang; 前田, 良知; 満田, 和久; 中川, 貴雄; 尾崎, 正伸; 佐藤, 悟郎; 佐藤, 理江; Simionescu, Aurora; 菅原, 泰晴; 高橋, 忠幸; 竹井, 洋; 田村, 隆幸; 田中, 靖郎; 冨田, 洋; 辻本, 匡弘; 上田, 周太朗; 渡辺, 伸; 山崎, 典子）, Number of authors: Hitomi Collaboration 193 (Affiliation. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS): Dotani, Tadayasu; Ebisawa, Ken; Hagino, Kouichi; Hayashi, Katsuhiro; Iizuka, Ryo; Inoue, Yoshiyuki; Ishida, Manabu; Ishikawa, Kumi; Iwai, Masachika; Kokubun, Motohide; Koyama, Shu; Lee, Shiu-Hang; Maeda, Yoshitomo; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; Nakagawa, Takao; Ozaki, Masanobu; Sato, Goro; Sato, Rie; Simionescu, Aurora; Sugawara, Yasuharu; Takahashi, Tadayuki; Takei, Yoh; Tamura, Takayuki; Tanaka, Yasuo; Tomida, Hiroshi; Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Ueda, Shutaro; Watanabe, Shin; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.), Accepted: 2017-11-16, 資料番号: SA1170338000

Published
2018

31. Origin of the low-temperature plasma in the Galactic center X-ray emission

Author

Katsuji Koyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Hideki Uchiyama, Miku Shimizu, and Masayoshi Nobukawa

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galactic Center, X-ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Plasma, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, Surface brightness, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Line (formation)
Abstract

The Galactic Center X-ray Emission (GCXE) is composed of high temperature (7 keV) and low temperature (1 keV) plasmas (HTP and LTP, respectively). The global structure of the HTP is roughly uniform over the Galactic center (GC) region, and the origin of the HTP has been extensively studied. On the other hand, the LTP is more clumpy, and the origin has not been studied in detail. In the S XV He alpha line map, a pair of horn-like soft diffuse sources are seen at the symmetric positions with respect to Sagittarius A^{star}. The X-ray spectra of the pair are well represented by an absorbed thin thermal plasma model of a temperature and N_H of 0.6-0.7 keV and 4x10^{22} cm^{-2}, respectively. The N_H values indicate that the pair are located near at the GC. Then the dynamical time scales of the pair are 10^{5} yr. The Si and S abundances and the surface brightnesses in the S XV He alpha line band are 0.7-1.2 and 0.6-1.3 solar, and (2.0-2.4)x10^{-15} erg s^{-1} cm^{-2} arcmin^{-2}, respectively. The temperature, abundances, and surface brightness are similar to those of the LTP in the GCXE, while the abundances are far larger than those of known point sources, typically coronal active stars and RS CVn-type active binaries. Based on these results, possible origin of the LTP is discussed., Comment: Accepted for publication in PASJ

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2018
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32. Discovery of new X-ray sources near the unidentified gamma-ray source HESS J1841-055

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Masayoshi Nobukawa, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kazuya Koyama, and Kumiko K. Nobukawa

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Atmospheric Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Galactic plane, Interstellar medium, Wavelength, Geophysics, Space and Planetary Science, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Emission spectrum, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Supernova remnant, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxy cluster
Abstract

HESS J1841$-$055 is a diffuse unidentified gamma-ray source with the size of $\sim\,1.3^{\circ}\times\,1^{\circ}$. No conclusive counterpart in other wavelengths has so far detected. To search for X-rays responsible for the TeV emission, the Suzaku observations were conducted, which covered a half region of the HESS source. In the soft band (0.5-2.0 keV), we discovered a diffuse emission, Suzaku J1840.2$-$0552, with the size of $\sim10'$. Since its spectrum was fitted by an optically thin thermal plasma model, Suzaku J1840.2$-$0552 is likely to be a supernova remnant. We also discovered an extended source, Suzaku J1840.2$-$0544, in the hard band (2.0-8.0 keV) with an emission line at 6.1 keV. From the spectral feature and large interstellar absorption, this source is likely to be a cluster of galaxies behind the Galactic plane at the red-shift of $\sim$0.09. The other diffuse source spatially overlaps with the SNR candidate G26.6$-$0.2, which shows a non-thermal dominant spectrum. Since no other candidate is found in the hard X-ray band, we infer that these largely extended sources could be possible counterparts of HESS J1841$-$055., 17 pages, 5 figures

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2015

33. Solar abundance ratios of the iron-peak elements in the Perseus cluster

Author

Yasuo Tanaka, Hideki Uchiyama, Hironori Matsumoto, T. Hayashi, Cor P. de Vries, Shin'ichiro Uno, Shinya Nakashima, Ann Hornschemeier, Satoshi Sugita, Naomi Ota, Masanori Ohno, Christopher S. Reynolds, Megumi Shidatsu, Kumi Ishikawa, Lukasz Stawarz, Hiroshi Murakami, Shunji Kitamoto, Hiroshi Tomida, Masanobu Ozaki, Katsuji Koyama, Kenji Hamaguchi, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Hiroyasu Tajima, Katja Pottschmidt, Marshall W. Bautz, Daisuke Yonetoku, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Shin Mineshige, Hans A. Krimm, Marc Audard, Motohide Kokubun, Chris Done, Peter Kretschmar, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Jon M. Miller, Samar Safi-Harb, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Aya Bamba, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Takeshi Nakamori, Dan McCammon, Hiromi Seta, Olivier Limousine, Roger Blandford, Hirokazu Odaka, Andrew C. Fabian, Yohko Tsuboi, Norbert Werner, Fumie Akimoto, Shigeo Yamauchi, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Daniel R. Wik, David H. Lumb, Yuichi Terashima, Richard L. Kelley, Hiroyuki Uchida, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Shinya Yamada, Brian R. McNamara, Kyoko Matsushita, Shu Koyama, John P. Hughes, Maxim Markevitch, Yuto Ichinohe, Makoto Yamauchi, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Shinya Saito, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Kouichi Hagino, C. Megan Urry, Shiu-Hang Lee, Missagh Mehdipour, Kazuhiro Sakai, Michael Loewenstein, Yuichiro Ezoe, Masachika Iwai, Hajime Inoue, Yoh Takei, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Ciro Pinto, Yoshito Haba, Jun Kataoka, Richard F. Mushotzky, Toru Tamagawa, Gregory V. Brown, Hiroshi Nakajima, Steven W. Allen, Lorella Angelini, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Junko S. Hiraga, Magnus Axelsson, Takuya Miyazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Meng P. Chiao, Stéphane Paltani, Rie Sato, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Peter J. Serlemitsos, Ryo Iizuka, Goro Sato, Nobuyuki Kawai, Yoichi Yatsu, Brian J. Williams, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Maria Chernyakova, Eric D. Miller, Ilana M. Harrus, Frits Paerels, Poshak Gandhi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Shin Watanabe, Ken Ebisawa, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Shutaro Ueda, Tetsu Kitayama, P. Laurent, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Koji Mukai, Makoto Tashiro, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Edward M. Cackett, Matteo Guainazzi, Frederick S. Porter, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kosuke Sato, Aya Kubota, Timothy R. Kallman, Makoto Sawada, Esra Bulbul, Paolo De Coppi, Felix Aharonian, Takao Kitaguchi, Teruaki Enoto, Kazuo Makishima, Toru Sasaki, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Takao Nakagawa, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Takayoshi Kohmura, Laura Brenneman, Takayuki Tamura, Irina Zhuravleva, Tahir Yaqoob, Yang Soong, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Takashi Okajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Yasuharu Sugawara, Eugenio Ursino, Adam R. Foster, Manabu Ishida, Isamu Hatsukade, Satoru Katsuda, Knox S. Long, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Luigi C. Gallo, Akihiro Furuzawa, Hirofumi Noda, Koji Mori, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Yukikatsu Terada, Carlo Ferrigno, Hiroki Akamatsu, Andrew Szymkowiak, Dan R. Wilkins, Daniel Maier, Tadayuki Takahashi, Robert Petre, Margherita Giustini, Elisa Costantini, Jan-Willem den Herder, Greg Madejski, Francesco Tombesi, Jelle Kaastra, Hideyuki Mori, Randall K. Smith, Norbert Schartel, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Aurora Simionescu, Jelle de Plaa, Andrea Goldwurm, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, Hideyo Kunieda, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Y. Tawara, Yoshitomo Maeda, Hisamitsu Awaki, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadayasu Dotani, Liyi Gu, Akio Hoshino, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Hitomi, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Nucleosynthesis, Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Solar mass, Multidisciplinary, White dwarf, Astronomy, Iron peak, Hitomi Collaboration, Supernova, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

著者人数: Hitomi Collaboration 193名 (所属. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所(JAXA)(ISAS): 堂谷, 忠靖; 海老沢, 研; 林, 克洋; 飯塚, 亮; 井上, 芳幸; 石田, 学; 石川, 久美; 岩井, 將親; 国分, 紀秀; 小山, 志勇; 前田, 良知; 満田, 和久; 中川, 貴雄; 尾崎, 正伸; 佐藤, 悟郎; 佐藤, 理江; Simionescu, Aurora; 菅原, 泰晴; 高橋, 忠幸; 竹井, 洋; 田村, 隆幸; 田中, 靖郎; 冨田, 洋; 辻本, 匡弘; 上田, 周太朗; 渡辺, 伸; 山崎, 典子), Number of authors: Hitomi Collaboration 193 (Affiliation. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS): Dotani, Tadayasu; Ebisawa, Ken; Hayashi, Katsuhiro; Iizuka, Ryo; Inoue, Yoshiyuki; Ishida. Manabu; Ishikawa, Kumi; Iwai, Masachika; Kokubun, Motohide; Koyama, Shu; Maeda, Yoshitomo; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; Nakagawa, Takao; Ozaki, Masanobu; Sato, Goro; Sato, Rie; Simionescu, Aurora; Sugawara, Yasuharu; Takahashi, Tadayuki; Takei, Yoh; Tamura, Takayuki; Tanaka, Yasuo; Tomida, Hiroshi; Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Ueda, Shutaro; Watanabe, Shin; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.), Accepted: 2017-09-21, 資料番号: SA1170128000

Published
2017

34. First discovery of iron line emission generated by low-energy cosmic rays

Author

Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Hideki Uchiyama, Katsuji Koyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, and Masayoshi Nobukawa

Subjects
Physics, Interstellar medium, Supernova, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Molecular cloud, Galactic Center, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Electron, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxy, Line (formation)
Abstract

Cosmic rays (CRs) in our galaxy are thought to be generated via diffusive shock acceleration. Gamma-ray observations have revealed that protons and/or electrons are accelerated to energies up to 100 TeV in supernova remnants (SNRs), and hence SNRs are the most plausible source of CR production. Whereas low-energy cosmic rays (LECRs) below the MeV band have important information on the initial acceleration mechanism, there has been very little information on LECRs due to lack of an effective probe. Interacting with neutral iron atoms in the interstellar medium, LECRs produce fluorescent X-ray line emission at 6.40 keV. The 6.40 keV line observation can be a unique probe to investigate LECRs. Analyzing the Suzaku data, we discovered the 6.40 keV line emission from several SNRs interacting with molecular clouds (W28, W44, Kes 67, Kes 69, Kes 78, Kes 79, and 3C391). The 6.40 keV line emission would be produced by MeV protons with the energy density of $>10$ eV cm$^{-3}$. Furthermore, we discovered the 6.40 keV line emission from a giant molecular cloud located near the Galactic center. The energy density of MeV protons is estimated to be 80 eV cm$^{-3}$. The diffusion length of MeV protons is only a few tens of parsecs, and thus the MeV protons should be produced in situ. Surprisingly, there is no SNR in the vicinity. The LECRs would possibly be generated by stochastic acceleration via Alfven turbulence.

Published
2017

35. Localized Recombining Plasma in G166.0+4.3: A Supernova Remnant with an Unusual Morphology

Author

Hideaki Matsumura, Takaaki Tanaka, Makoto Itou, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hiroyuki Uchida, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, and Takeshi Go Tsuru

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Morphology (linguistics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular cloud, Rarefaction, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Plasma, Astrophysics, Thermal conduction, 01 natural sciences, Space and Planetary Science, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Electron temperature, Supernova remnant, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

We observed the Galactic mixed-morphology supernova remnant G166.0+4.3 with Suzaku. The X-ray spectrum in the western part of the remnant is well represented by a one-component ionizing plasma model. The spectrum in the northeastern region can be explained by two components. One is the Fe-rich component with the electron temperature $kT_e = 0.87_{-0.03}^{+0.02}$ keV. The other is the recombining plasma component of lighter elements with $kT_e = 0.46\pm0.03$ keV, the initial temperature $kT_{init} = 3$ keV (fixed) and the ionization parameter $n_et = (6.1_{-0.4}^{+0.5}) \times 10^{11} \rm cm^{-3} s$. As the formation process of the recombining plasma, two scenarios, the rarefaction and thermal conduction, are considered. The former would not be favored since we found the recombining plasma only in the northeastern region whereas the latter would explain the origin of the RP. In the latter scenario, an RP is anticipated in a part of the remnant where blast waves are in contact with cool dense gas. The emission measure suggests higher ambient gas density in the northeastern region. The morphology of the radio shell and a GeV gamma-ray emission also suggest a molecular cloud in the region., 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ

Published
2017

36. Use of a Charge-Injection Technique to Improve Performance of the Soft X-ray Imager Aboard ASTRO-H

Author

Takayoshi Kohmura, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, Makoto Yamauchi, Takaaki Tanaka, Tadayasu Dotani, Chikara Natsukari, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Masanobu Ozaki, Junko S. Hiraga, Naohisa Anabuki, Hiroyuki Uchida, Masashi Kimura, Isamu Hatsukade, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Koji Mori, Ryo Nagino, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Yusuke Nishioka, and Kiyoshi Hayashida

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Charge-coupled device, business.industry, P-channel CCD, Charge (physics), Alpha particle, Semiconductor device, Signal, Charged particle, X-ray, Full width at half maximum, Optics, Monochromatic color, business, Instrumentation, ASTRO-H
Abstract

著者人数: 22名, 資料番号: SA1140136000

Published
2014

37. Measurement of Low-Energy Cosmic Rays via the Neutral Iron Line

Author

Shigetaka Saji, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Arisa Hirayama, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Shigeo Yamauchi, Katsuji Koyama, and Hironori Matsumoto

Subjects
Physics, History, Low energy, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Computer Science Applications, Education, Line (formation)
Published
2019

39. Soft x-ray imager (SXI) onboard ASTRO-H

Author

Hiroshi Tsunemi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Tadayasu Dotani, Hiroshi Nakajima, Naohisa Anabuki, Ryo Nagino, Takaaki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Uchida, Masanobu Ozaki, Chikara Natsukari, Hiroshi Tomida, Shutaro Ueda, Masachika Iwai, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Junko S. Hiraga, Takayoshi Kohmura, Hiroshi Murakami, Koji Mori, Makoto Yamauchi, Isamu Hatsukade, Yusuke Nishioka, Aya Bamba, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, and John Doty

Subjects
010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Published
2016

40. Scale heights and equivalent widths of the iron K-shell lines in the Galactic diffuse X-ray emission

Author

Hideki Uchiyama, Katsuji Koyama, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Shigeo Yamauchi, and Masayoshi Nobukawa

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galactic ridge, Galactic Center, Electron shell, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Space and Planetary Science, Bulge, 0103 physical sciences, K-alpha, Disc, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Line (formation)
Abstract

This paper reports the analysis of the X-ray spectra of the Galactic diffuse X-ray emission (GDXE) in the Suzaku archive. The fluxes of the Fe I K alpha (6.4 keV), Fe XXV,He alpha (6.7 keV) and Fe XXVI Ly alpha (6.97 keV) lines are separately determined. From the latitude distributions, we confirm that the GDXE is decomposed into the Galactic center (GCXE), the Galactic bulge (GBXE) and the Galactic ridge (GRXE) X-ray emissions. The scale heights (SHs) of the Fe XXV He alpha line of the GCXE, GBXE and GRXE are determined to be ~40, ~310 and ~140 pc, while those of the Fe I K alpha line are ~30, ~160 and ~70 pc, respectively. The mean equivalent widths (EWs) of the sum of the Fe XXV He alpha and Fe XXVI Ly alpha lines are ~750 eV, ~600 eV and ~550 eV, while those of the Fe I K alpha line are ~150~eV, ~60~eV and ~100~eV for the GCXE, GBXE and GRXE, respectively. The origin of the GBXE, GRXE and GCXE is separately discussed based on the new results of the SHs and EWs, in comparison with those of the Cataclysmic Variables (CVs), Active Binaries (ABs) and Coronal Active stars (CAs)., Comment: Accepted for publication in PASJ

Published
2016
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41. The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) x-ray astronomy satellite

Author

Yasuharu Sugawara, Luigi C. Gallo, Manabu Ishida, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Makoto Yamauchi, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Eric J. Miller, Ciro Pinto, Grzegorz Madejski, Meng P. Chiao, Yoshiharu Namba, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Goro Sato, Harvey Moseley, Takayoshi Kohmura, Mina Ogawa, Greg Brown, Kevin R. Boyce, Missagh Mehdipour, Shutaro Ueda, Satoru Katsuda, Philipp Azzarello, Shin'ichiro Uno, Atsushi Wada, Takao Kitaguchi, Knox S. Long, Yohko Tsuboi, Nobutaka Bando, Shin-ichiro Sakai, Hajime Inoue, Masayuki Itoh, Kazuyuki Hirose, Norbert Werner, Fumie Akimoto, Timothy R. Kallman, Shigeo Yamauchi, Maxim Markevitch, Yuto Ichinohe, Naohisa Anabuki, Satoshi Sugita, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Olivier Limousin, Meg Urry, Kouichi Hagino, Akio Hoshino, Kumi Ishikawa, Cor P. de Vries, Teruaki Enoto, Yasuo Tanaka, M. Pohl, Masanobu Ozaki, Kenji Minesugi, Peter Shirron, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Koji Mori, Hideki Uchiyama, Yukikatsu Terada, D. Haas, Keith A. Arnaud, Masanori Ohno, Christopher S. Reynolds, Hiromi Seta, Yusuke Nishioka, Carlo Ferrigno, Edgar Canavan, Katsuji Koyama, Daniel R. Wik, Shunji Kitamoto, Keisuke Shinozaki, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Dan McCammon, David H. Lumb, Kyoko Matsushita, Hiroyuki Uchida, John P. Hughes, Daniel Maier, Lorella Angelini, Taro Kawano, Cynthia Simmons, Shiro Ueno, Koji Mukai, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Makoto Asai, Toru Tamagawa, Rie Sato, Keisuke Tamura, Yuzuru Tawara, Łukasz Stawarz, Motohide Kokubun, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, F. Scott Porter, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Michael J. DiPirro, Richard F. Mushotzky, Nobuyuki Kawai, Brian J. Williams, Richard L. Kelley, Hirokazu Odaka, Matteo Guainazzi, Kazuo Makishima, Yuichiro Ezoe, Takahiro Yamada, Hiroki Akamatsu, Andrew Szymkowiak, Philippe Laurent, James Pontius, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Tetsu Kitayama, Megumi Shidatsu, Felix Aharonian, Shigeo Kawasaki, Takanobu Shimada, Laura Brenneman, Toru Sasaki, Isamu Hatsukade, A. L. King, Takuya Miyazawa, Toshio Nakano, Atsumasa Yoshida, Robert Petre, Shinya Yamada, Stéphane Paltani, Eugenio Ursino, Adam R. Foster, Takayuki Hayashi, Shiu-Hang Lee, Toshio Murakami, Chris Done, Takeshi Nakamori, Kazuhiro Sakai, Ryo Nagino, Yuichi Terashima, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Michael Loewenstein, Shin Mineshige, Peter Kretschmar, John P. Doty, Candace Masters, Yoichi Sato, Junko S. Hiraga, Magnus Axelsson, Kenji Hamaguchi, Marshall W. Bautz, Junichiro Katsuta, Hiroaki Sameshima, Ilana M. Harrus, Thomas G. Bialas, Elisa Costantini, Daniel S. McGuinness, Yoichi Yatsu, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Naoko Iwata, Mark O. Kimball, Arvind Parmar, Yasuko Shibano, Norbert Schartel, Helen Russell, Gary A. Sneiderman, Steve Allen, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Makoto Sawada, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, Dmitry Khangulyan, Kosei Ishimura, Tatsuro Kosaka, Andrea Goldwurm, Takashi Okajima, Hirofumi Noda, Franco Moroso, F. B. S. Paerels, Hiroyuki Sugita, Alex Koujelev, Masaharu Nomachi, Tomomi Watanabe, Marc Audard, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hideyo Kunieda, Keiji Ogi, Akihiro Furuzawa, Brian D. Ramsey, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Shinya Saito, Poshak Gandhi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Liyi Gu, Peter J. Serlemitsos, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kosuke Sato, Aya Kubota, Chris Jewell, Yoshitomo Maeda, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shinya Nakashima, Irina Zhuravleva, Andrew C. Fabian, Tahir Yaqoob, Housei Nagano, Erin Kara, Brian R. McNamara, Naomi Ota, Shu Koyama, Joseph Miko, Madoka Kawaharada, Hisamitsu Awaki, Steve O'Dell, Takaaki Tanaka, Hironori Matsumoto, Tadayasu Dotani, Ken Ebisawa, Dan R. Wilkins, Hiroyasu Tajima, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Chikara Natsukari, Jan-Willem den Herder, Tadayuki Takahashi, Francois Lebrun, Hiroshi Nakajima, Yoh Takei, Hideyuki Mori, Yoshito Haba, Jun Kataoka, Randall K. Smith, Atsushi Okamoto, Maria Chernyakova, Shin Watanabe, Edward M. Cackett, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Takayuki Tamura, Francesco Tombesi, Jelle Kaastra, Maki Shida, Chris Baluta, Kirk Gilmore, Aurora Simionescu, Ann Hornschemeier, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Jelle de Plaa, Naoko Iyomoto, Atsushi Harayama, Aya Bamba, Katja Pottschmidt, Roger Blandford, Kazunori Ishibashi, Makoto Tashiro, Esra Bulbul, Yang Soong, Paolo De Coppi, Daisuke Yonetoku, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Hans A. Krimm, Samar Safi-Harb, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Takao Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Margherita Giustini, Tuneyoshi Kamae, Takayuki Yuasa, Ryo Iizuka, Masayuki Ohta, Jon M. Miller, and Theodore Muench

Subjects
Physics, X-ray astronomy, Spacecraft, business.industry, Astronomy, High resolution, First light, Gamma-ray astronomy, 01 natural sciences, Spacecraft system, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite, 010306 general physics, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
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 2016 February 17, the spacecraft lost its function on 2016 March 26, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the on-board 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.

Published
2016

42. The Transition from Young to Middle-aged Supernova Remnants: Thermal and Nonthermal Aspects of SNR N132D

Author

Yutaka Ohira, Yukikatsu Terada, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Aya Bamba, Makoto Sawada, Eric D. Miller, Katsuji Koyama, Satoru Katsuda, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Ryo Yamazaki, and Masayoshi Nobukawa

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Proton, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Plasma, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, K-line, Synchrotron, law.invention, Supernova, Space and Planetary Science, law, 0103 physical sciences, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Large Magellanic Cloud, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are the primary candidate of Galactic cosmic-ray accelerators. It is still an open issue when and how young SNRs, which typically exhibit strong synchrotron X-rays and GeV and TeV gamma-rays, undergo the state transition to middle-aged SNRs dominated by thermal X-rays and GeV gamma-rays. The SNR N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud is an ideal target to study such a transition, exhibiting bright X-rays and gamma-rays, and with the expected age of ~2500 yrs. In this paper we present results of NuSTAR and Suzaku spectroscopy. We reveal that N132D has a nearly equilibrium plasma with a temperature of > 5 keV or a recombining plasma with a lower temperature (~1.5 keV) and a recombining timescale (net) of 8.8 (7.0--10.0)e12 cm^-3s. Together with the center filled morphology observed in the iron K line image, our results suggest that N132D is now at transition stage from a young SNR to middle-aged. We have constrained the tight upper-limit of nonthermal X-rays. Bright gamma-rays compared to faint nonthermal X-rays suggest that the gamma-rays are hadronic in origin. The spectral energy distribution from radio to gamma-rays shows a proton cut-off energy of ~30 TeV. These facts confirm that N132D is in the transition from young to middle-aged SNR. The large thermal energy of > 10^51 erg and accelerated proton energy of ~ 10^50 erg suggest the supernova explosion might have been very energetic., 11 pages, 13 figures, ApJ, in press

Published
2018

43. Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) onboard ASTRO-H

Author

Hiroyuki Uchida, Takaaki Tanaka, Takeshi Go Tsuru, M. Ozaki, Makoto Yamauchi, Ryo Nagino, Isamu Hatsukade, Masachika Iwai, Yusuke Nishioka, Naohisa Anabuki, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Shutaro Ueda, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hiroshi Nakajima, Tukasa Takeyoshi, T. Kohmura, Koji Mori, Tadayasu Dotani, Aya Bamba, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Masashi Kimura, Junko S. Hiraga, Keisuke Kondo, Chikara Natsukari, Hiroshi Murakami, Hiroshi Tomida, John P. Doty, and Shuhei Katada

Subjects
Physics, Optics, Transmission (telecommunications), Ccd camera, Filter (video), business.industry, Resolution (electron density), Calibration, Linearity, Satellite, business, Energy (signal processing), Remote sensing
Abstract

Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) is a CCD camera onboard the ASTRO-H satellite which is scheduled to be launched in 2015. The SXI camera contains four CCD chips, each with an imaging area of 31mm x 31 mm, arrayed in mosaic, covering the whole FOV area of 38′ x 38′. The CCDs are a P-channel back-illuminated (BI) type with a depletion layer thickness of 200 _m. High QE of 77% at 10 keV expected for this device is an advantage to cover an overlapping energy band with the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) onboard ASTRO-H. Most of the flight components of the SXI system are completed until the end of 2013 and assembled, and an end-to-end test is performed. Basic performance is verified to meet the requirements. Similar performance is confirmed in the first integration test of the satellite performed in March to June 2014, in which the energy resolution at 5.9 keV of 160 eV is obtained. In parallel to these activities, calibrations using engineering model CCDs are performed, including QE, transmission of a filter, linearity, and response profiles.

Published
2014

44. ORIGIN OF THE GALACTIC DIFFUSE X-RAY EMISSION: IRON K-SHELL LINE DIAGNOSTICS

Author

Katsuji Koyama, Hideki Uchiyama, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, and Shigeo Yamauchi

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Materials science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Galactic ridge, Galactic Center, Electron shell, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Nickel, chemistry, Space and Planetary Science, Bulge, 0103 physical sciences, Disc, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Line (formation)
Abstract

This paper reports detailed K-shell line profiles of iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni) of the Galactic Center X-ray Emission (GCXE), Galactic Bulge X-ray Emission (GBXE), Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission (GRXE), magnetic Cataclysmic Variables (mCVs), non-magnetic Cataclysmic Variables (non-mCVs), and coronally Active Binaries (ABs). For the study of the origin of the GCXE, GBXE, and GRXE, the spectral analysis is focused on equivalent widths of the Fe K$\alpha$, Fe He$\alpha$, and Fe Ly$\alpha$ lines. The global spectrum of the GBXE is reproduced by a combination of the mCVs, non-mCVs, and ABs spectra. On the other hand, the GRXE spectrum shows significant data excesses at the Fe K$\alpha$ and Fe He$\alpha$ line energies. This means that additional components other than mCVs, non-mCVs, and ABs are required, which have symbiotic phenomena of cold gas and very high-temperature plasma. The GCXE spectrum shows larger excesses than those found in the GRXE spectrum at all the K-shell lines of iron and nickel. Among them the largest ones are the Fe K$\alpha$, Fe He$\alpha$, Fe Ly$\alpha$, and Fe Ly$\beta$ lines. Together with the fact that the scale heights of the Fe K$\alpha$, Fe He$\alpha$, and Fe Ly$\alpha$ lines are similar to that of the central molecular zone (CMZ), the excess components would be related to high-energy activity in the extreme envelopment of the CMZ., Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables, published in ApJ

Published
2016

45. Recombining plasma in the remnant of a core-collapsed supernova, Kes 17

Author

Takaaki Tanaka, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Katsuji Koyama, Ryosaku Washino, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, and Hiroyuki Uchida

Subjects
Physics, Core (optical fiber), Supernova, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Plasma, Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences
Published
2015

46. SPECTRUM OF RELATIVISTIC AND SUBRELATIVISTIC COSMIC RAYS IN THE 100 pc CENTRAL REGION

Author

Chung Ming Ko, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, A. M. Kiselev, C. Y. Hui, Masayoshi Nobukawa, K. S. Cheng, V. A. Dogiel, and Dmitrii Chernyshov

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Spectral index, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Molecular cloud, Gamma ray, Bremsstrahlung, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Electron, Space and Planetary Science, Ionization, Continuum (set theory), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

From the rate of hydrogen ionization and the gamma ray flux, we derived the spectrum of relativistic and subrelativistic cosmic rays (CRs) nearby and inside the molecular cloud Sgr B2 near the Galactic Center (GC). We studied two cases of CR propagation in molecular clouds: free propagation and scattering of particles by magnetic fluctuations excited by the neutral gas turbulence. We showed that in the latter case CR propagation inside the cloud can be described as diffusion with the coefficient $\sim 3\times 10^{27}$ cm$^2$ s$^{-1}$. For the case of hydrogen ionization by subrelativistic protons, we showed that their spectrum outside the cloud is quite hard with the spectral index $��>-1$. The energy density of subrelativistic protons ($>50$ eV cm$^{-3}$) is one order of magnitude higher than that of relativistic CRs. These protons generate the 6.4 keV emission from Sgr B2, which was about 30\% of the flux observed by Suzaku in 2013. Future observations for the period after 2013 may discover the background flux generated by subrelativistic CRs in Sgr B2. Alternatively hydrogen ionization of the molecular gas in Sgr B2 may be caused by high energy electrons. We showed that the spectrum of electron bremsstrahlung is harder than the observed continuum from Sgr B2, and in principle this X-ray component provided by electrons could be seen from the INTEGRAL data as a stationary high energy excess above the observed spectrum $E_x^{-2}$., 42 pages, 6 figures, accepted by ApJ

Published
2015

47. ENHANCEMENT OF THE 6.4 keV LINE IN THE INNER GALACTIC RIDGE: PROTON-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE?

Author

Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Takaaki Tanaka, Katsuji Koyama, Kazufumi Torii, Hideki Uchiyama, Dmitrii Chernyshov, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Yasuo Fukui, and V. A. Dogiel

Subjects
Physics, Stellar mass, Mass distribution, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Galactic ridge, Milky Way, Galactic Center, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Disc, Atomic physics, Equivalent width, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

A common idea for the origin of the Galactic diffuse X-ray emission, particularly that of the iron lines from neutral and highly ionized atoms, is a superposition of many cataclysmic variables and coronally active binaries. In this scenario, the flux should symmetrically distribute between the east and west on the plane with respect to Sagittarius A* because the stellar mass distribution determined by infrared observations is nearly symmetric. This symmetry is confirmed for the highly ionized iron line as well as the continuum emission. However, a clear excess of the neutral iron line in the near east of the Galactic center compared to the near-west side is found. The flux distribution of the excess emission well correlates with the molecular column density. The X-ray spectrum of the excess emission is described by a power-law continuum plus a 6.4 keV line with a large equivalent width of ?1.3 keV, which is hardly explained by the low-energy electron bombardment scenario. The longitudinal and latitudinal distribution of the excess emission disfavors the X-ray irradiation, either by Sagittarius A* or by nearby X-ray binaries. Then, the low-energy proton bombardment is the most probable origin, although the high-energy density ?80 eV cm?3 in 0.1?1000 MeV is required and there is no conventional proton source in the vicinity.

Published
2015

48. Suzaku Observation of the Supergiant Fast X-Ray Transient AX J1841.0−0536

Author

Takeshi Go Tsuru, Katsuji Koyama, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, and Masayoshi Nobukawa

Subjects
Physics, X-ray transient, Photon, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Absorption column, Full coverage, K-line, law.invention, Space and Planetary Science, law, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Supergiant, Equivalent width, Flare
Abstract

We observed the supergiant fast X-ray transient AX J1841.0 0536 with Suzaku in 2011 March. Many short flares with time-scales of a few hundred seconds and a large flare with a peak flux (1.0–10 keV) of & 2 10 10 erg s 1 cm 2 were detected. The broad-band (1.0–40 keV) spectrum was fitted with a cut-off powerlaw continuum plus a K line from a neutral iron absorbed by partial covering gas. In addition, a broad absorption feature was found in a high-energy band. The photon index of the power-law is 1.01 0.12 in a low-luminosity state, and decreases (becomes hard) with increasing luminosity. On the other hand, the absorption column density and the iron line equivalent width are nearly constant. The covering fraction does not vary significantly, except for the full coverage epoch at the end of the large flare. We thus propose that the X-ray emission is due to subsequent in-falls of many small blobs.

Published
2012

49. Evidence for a neutral iron line generated by MeV protons from supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds

Author

Katsuji Koyama, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Hiromichi Okon, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Takaaki Tanaka, Hideki Uchiyama, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Shigeo Yamauchi, and Hiroyuki Uchida

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Molecular cloud, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galactic plane, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Interstellar medium, Supernova, Space and Planetary Science, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Line (formation)
Abstract

Supernova remnants (SNRs) have been prime candidates for Galactic cosmic-ray accelerators. When low-energy cosmic-ray protons (LECRp) collide with interstellar gas, they ionize neutral iron atoms and emit the neutral iron line (Fe I K$\alpha$) at 6.40keV. We search for the iron K-shell line in seven SNRs from the Suzaku archive data of the Galactic plane in the $6^{\circ} \lesssim l \lesssim 40^{\circ}, |b| < 1^{\circ}$ region. All these SNRs interact with molecular clouds. We discover Fe I K$\alpha$ line emissions from five SNRs (W28, Kes 67, Kes 69, Kes 78, and W44). The spectra and morphologies suggest that the Fe I K$\alpha$ line is produced by interactions between LECRp and the adjacent cold gas. The proton energy density is estimated to be $\gtrsim$ 10-100 eV cm$^{-3}$, which is more than 10 times higher than that in the ambient interstellar medium., Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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