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1. Status of resolve instrument onboard x-ray imaging and spectroscopy mission (XRISM)

Author

Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Richard L. Kelley, Hisamitsu Awaki, Jesus C. Balleza, Kim R. Barnstable, Thomas G. Bialas, Rozenn Boissay-Malaquin, Gregory V. Brown, Edgar R. Canavan, Renata S. Cumbee, Timothy M. Carnahan, Meng P. Chiao, Brian J. Comber, Elisa Costantini, Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Johannes Dercksen, Cor P. de Vries, Michael J. DiPirro, Megan E. Eckart, Yuichiro Ezoe, Carlo Ferrigno, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Nathalie Gorter, Steven M. Graham, Martin Grim, Leslie S. Hartz, Ryota Hayakawa, Takayuki Hayashi, Natalie Hell, Akio Hoshino, Yuto Ichinohe, Manabu Ishida, Kumi Ishikawa, Bryan L. James, Steven J. Kenyon, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Mark O. Kimball, Shunji Kitamoto, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Yoshitomo Maeda, Dan McCammon, Joseph J. Miko, Misaki Mizumoto, Takashi Okajima, Atsushi Okamoto, Stephane Paltani, Frederick S. Porter, Kosuke Sato, Toshiki Sato, Makoto Sawada, Keisuke Shinozaki, Russell Shipman, Peter J. Shirron, Gary A. Sneiderman, Yang Soong, Richard Szymkiewicz, Andrew E. Szymkowiak, Yoh Takei, Keisuke Tamura, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Yuusuke Uchida, Stephen Wasserzug, Michael C. Witthoeft, Rob Wolfs, Shinya Yamada, and Susumu Yasuda

Published
2022

2. Thermodynamic Performance of the 3-Stage ADR for the Astro-H Soft X-Ray Spectrometer Instrument

Author

Peter J Shirron, Mark O Kimball, Bryan L James, Theodore Muench, Michael J DiPirro, Thomas G Bialas, Gary A Sneiderman, Frederick S Porter, and Richard L Kelley

Subjects
Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics
Abstract

The Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) instrument[1] on Astro-H[2] will use a 3-stage ADR[3] to cool the microcalorimeter array to 50 mK. In the primary operating mode, two stages of the ADR cool the detectors using superfluid helium at ≤1.20 K as the heat sink[4]. In the secondary mode, which is activated when the liquid helium is depleted, the ADR uses a 4.5 K Joule-Thomson cooler as its heat sink. In this mode, all three stages operate together to continuously cool the (empty) helium tank and singleshot cool the detectors. The flight instrument - dewar, ADR, detectors and electronics - were integrated in 2014 and have since undergone extensive performance testing. This paper presents a thermodynamic analysis of the ADR's operation, including cooling capacity, heat rejection to the heat sinks, and various measures of efficiency.

Published
2015
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3. Status of x-ray imaging and spectroscopy mission (XRISM)

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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

4. Thermodynamic performance of the 3-stage ADR for the Astro-H Soft-X-ray Spectrometer instrument

Author

Bryan L. James, Theodore Muench, Thomas G. Bialas, Peter Shirron, Richard L. Kelley, Mark O. Kimball, Gary A. Sneiderman, Frederick S. Porter, and Michael J. DiPirro

Subjects
Physics, Spectrometer, Liquid helium, Nuclear engineering, Detector, General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, Thermodynamics, Heat sink, Cooling capacity, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, chemistry, law, 0103 physical sciences, Magnetic refrigeration, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Helium, Superfluid helium-4
Abstract

The Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) instrument (Mitsuda et al., 2010) [1] on Astro-H (Takahashi et al., 2010) [2] will use a 3-stage ADR (Shirron et al., 2012) to cool the microcalorimeter array to 50 mK. In the primary operating mode, two stages of the ADR cool the detectors using superfluid helium at ⩽1.20 K as the heat sink (Fujimoto et al., 2010). In the secondary mode, which is activated when the liquid helium is depleted, the ADR uses a 4.5 K Joule–Thomson cooler as its heat sink. In this mode, all three stages operate together to continuously cool the (empty) helium tank and single-shot cool the detectors. The flight instrument – dewar, ADR, detectors and electronics – were integrated in 2014 and have since undergone extensive performance testing. This paper presents a thermodynamic analysis of the ADR’s operation, including cooling capacity, heat rejection to the heat sinks, and various measures of efficiency.

Published
2016

5. Status of resolve instrument for x-ray astronomy recovery mission (Conference Presentation)

Author

Hiromi Seta, Steven M. Graham, Frederick S. Porter, Kosuke Sato, Akihiro Furuzawa, Dan McCammon, Kazunori Ishibashi, Peter Shirron, Takashi Okajima, Hirofumi Noda, Martin Grim, Yang Soong, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Meng P. Chiao, Michael J. DiPirro, Kumi Ishikawa, Yuto Ichinohe, Yoshitomo Maeda, Ryo Iizuka, Yuichiro Ezoe, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Shunji Kitamoto, Carlo Ferrigno, Hisamitsu Awaki, S. Paltani, Manabu Ishida, Toru Tamagawa, S. Koyama, Makoto Sawada, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Shinya Yamada, Hideyuki Mori, Takayuki Hayashi, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, Hiroki Akamatsu, Andrew Szymkowiak, Gregory V. Brown, Elisa Costantini, Shinya Nakashima, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Jan-Willem den Herder, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Richard L. Kelley, Yoh Takei, Cor P. de Vries, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Akio Hoshino, Gary A. Sneiderman, Shutaro Ueda, and Thomas G. Bialas

Subjects
Engineering, medicine.medical_specialty, X-ray astronomy, Presentation, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, medicine, Medical physics, business, media_common
Published
2018

6. 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.

Published
2018

7. 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

8. Cryogen-free operation of the Soft X-ray Spectrometer instrument

Author

Richard L. Kelley, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Dan McCammon, Meng P. Chiao, Kevin R. Boyce, Frederick S. Porter, Andrew Szymkowiak, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Seiji Yoshida, Hirofumi Noda, Michael J. DiPirro, Megan E. Eckart, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Leslie Hartz, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Gary A. Sneiderman, Thomas G. Bialas, Peter Shirron, Yoh Takei, and Candace Masters

Subjects
Materials science, Stirling engine, Liquid helium, Nuclear engineering, Refrigerator car, Refrigeration, Cryocooler, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, Operating temperature, law, 0103 physical sciences, Active cooling, Water cooling, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Abstract

The Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) is the first space-based instrument to implement redundancy in the operation of a sub-Kelvin refrigerator. The SXS cryogenic system consists of a superfluid helium tank and a combination of Stirling and Joule-Thompson (JT) cryocoolers that support the operation of a 3-stage adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR). When liquid helium is present, the x-ray microcalorimeter detectors are cooled to their 50 mK operating temperature by two ADR stages, which reject their heat directly to the liquid at ~1.1 K. When the helium is depleted, all three ADR stages are used to accomplish detector cooling while rejecting heat to the JT cooler operating at 4.5 K. Compared to the simpler helium mode operation, the cryogen-free mode achieves the same instrument performance by controlling the active cooling devices within the cooling system differently. These include the three ADR stages and four active heat switches, provided by NASA, and five cryocoolers, provided by JAXA. Development and verification details of this capability are presented within this paper and offer valuable insights into the challenges, successes, and lessons that can benefit other missions, particularly those employing cryogen-free cooling systems.

Published
2016

9. In-orbit operation of the ASTRO-H SXS

Author

Shinya Yamada, Yoh Takei, Makoto Tashiro, Hiromi Seta, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Meng P. Chiao, Kevin R. Boyce, Kosuke Sato, Akio Hoshino, Thomas G. Bialas, Gregory V. Brown, Megan E. Eckart, Shunji Kitamoto, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Masahide Murakami, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, D. Haas, Yuichiro Ezoe, Shu Koyama, Hiroshi Murakami, Yukikatsu Terada, Peter Shirron, Stéphane Paltani, Keisuke Shinozaki, Cor P. de Vries, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Yoichi Yatsu, Naomi Ota, Makoto Sawada, Hirofumi Noda, Richard L. Kelley, Gary A. Sneiderman, Hiroki Akamatsu, Andrew Szymkowiak, Mina Ogawa, Elisa Costantini, Dan McCammon, Naoko Iyomoto, Hiroyuki Sugita, Jan-Willem den Herder, Frederick S. Porter, Yoichi Sato, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Toru Tamagawa, Michael J. DiPirro, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, and Kumi Ishikawa

Subjects
Physics, Spectrometer, business.industry, Orbital mechanics, 01 natural sciences, Short life, 010309 optics, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite, Aerospace engineering, Orbit (control theory), business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Remote sensing
Abstract

We summarize all the in-orbit operations of the Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) onboard the ASTRO-H (Hit- omi) satellite. The satellite was launched on 2016/02/17 and the communication with the satellite ceased on 2016/03/26. The SXS was still in the commissioning phase, in which the setups were progressively changed. This article is intended to serve as a reference of the events in the orbit to properly interpret the SXS data taken during its short life time, and as a test case for planning the in-orbit operation for future micro-calorimeter missions.

Published
2016

10. Design and on-orbit operation of the adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator on the Hitomi Soft X-ray Spectrometer instrument

Author

Seiji Yoshida, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Kevin R. Boyce, Mark O. Kimball, Gary A. Sneiderman, Richard L. Kelley, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Yoh Takei, Michael J. DiPirro, Edgar Canavan, Theodore Muench, Frederick S. Porter, Bryan L. James, Peter Shirron, Ryuichi Fujimoto, and Thomas G. Bialas

Subjects
Physics, Spectrometer, Liquid helium, Nuclear engineering, Refrigerator car, chemistry.chemical_element, Cryocooler, Heat sink, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Nuclear magnetic resonance, chemistry, law, 0103 physical sciences, Dilution refrigerator, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Helium, Superfluid helium-4
Abstract

The Soft X-ray Spectrometer instrument on the Astro-H observatory contains a 6x6 array of x-ray microcalorimeters, which is cooled to 50 mK by an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR). The ADR consists of three stages in order to provide stable detector cooling using either a 1.2 K superfluid helium bath or a 4.5 K Joule-Thomson (JT) cryocooler as its heat sink. When liquid helium is present, two of the ADR’s stages are used to single-shot cool the detectors while rejecting heat to the helium. After the helium is depleted, all three stages are used to cool both the helium tank (to about 1.5 K) and the detectors (to 50 mK) using the JT cryocooler as its heat sink. The Astro-H observatory, renamed Hitomi after its successful launch in February 2016, carried approximately 36 liters of helium into orbit. On day 5, the helium had cooled sufficiently (

Published
2016

11. 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

12. The Suzaku High Resolution X-Ray Spectrometer

Author

Peter Shirron, Andrew Szymkowiak, T. Furusho, Gregory V. Brown, Yoh Takei, Susan Breon, Jean Cottam, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Naomi Ota, Gary A. Sneiderman, Ritva A. M. Keski-Kuha, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Petar Arsenovic, John Panek, June L. Tveekrem, Stephen S. Holt, Kevin R. Boyce, Oscar Gonzalez, Masayuki Hirabayashi, Dan McCammon, Thomas G. Bialas, F. Scott Porter, U. Morita, Carol S. Jones, Keith C. Gendreau, Michael J. DiPirro, Robert F. Boyle, Katsuhiro Narasaki, Takaya Ohashi, Mikio Yamamoto, Caroline A. Kilbourne, S. Harvey Moseley, Aristides T. Serlemitsos, Manabu Ishida, Michael D. Audley, Hajime Inoue, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, R. L. Kelley, Stephen M. Volz, Gene G. Gochar, Yoshiaki Ogawara, Christine A. Allen, and Brent Mott

Subjects
Cryostat, Physics, Spectrometer, Spacecraft, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Resolution (electron density), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Optics, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, Water cooling, Spectral resolution, business, Spectroscopy
Abstract

著者人数: 44名, Accepted: 2006-10-03, 資料番号: SA1000630000

Published
2007

13. The ASTRO-H X-ray astronomy satellite

Author

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

Subjects
Physics, Astronautics, X-ray astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma radiation, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, x-rays, x-ray astronomy, Redshift, Gravitation, satellites, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, spectral resolution, Satellite, equipment and services, Spectral resolution, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, galaxy groups and clusters, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Galaxy cluster
Abstract

The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), with a planned launch in 2015. The ASTRO-H mission is equipped with a suite of sensitive instruments with the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 3 keV and a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft X-rays to gamma-rays. The simultaneous broad band pass, coupled with the high spectral resolution of Delta E < 7 eV of the micro-calorimeter, will enable a wide variety of important science themes to be pursued. ASTRO-H is expected to provide breakthrough results in scientific areas as diverse as the large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution, the behavior of matter in the gravitational strong field regime, the physical conditions in sites of cosmic-ray acceleration, and the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters at different redshifts., 24 pages, 18 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray"

Published
2014

14. Soft x-ray spectrometer (SXS): the high-resolution cryogenic spectrometer onboard ASTRO-H

Author

Akio Hoshino, Shunji Kitamoto, Cor P. de Vries, Keisuke Shinozaki, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Makoto Tashiro, Masahide Murakami, Kevin R. Boyce, Thomas G. Bialas, Mark O. Kimball, Gary A. Sneiderman, Gregory V. Brown, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Naomi Ota, Joseph Miko, Yoichi Sato, Kosuke Sato, Hiroki Akamatsu, Andrew Szymkowiak, Yukikatsu Terada, Dan McCammon, Yuichiro Ezoe, Hiroyuki Sugita, Meng P. Chiao, Elisa Costantini, Hiromi Seta, Saori Konami, Richard L. Kelley, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Edgar Canavan, Jan-Willem den Herder, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Makoto Sawada, Toru Tamagawa, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Shinya Yamada, F. Scott Porter, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Peter Shirron, Michael J. DiPirro, Mina Ogawa, D. Haas, Hiroshi Murakami, Naoko Iyomoto, Hirofumi Noda, Megan E. Eckart, Takaya Ohashi, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Stéphane Paltani, Yoh Takei, Atsushi Okamoto, and Kumi Ishikawa

Subjects
Physics, Cryostat, X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray astronomy, Optics, Spectrometer, Interference (communication), business.industry, Resolution (electron density), Detector, business, Spectroscopy
Abstract

We present the development status of the Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) onboard the ASTRO-H mission. The SXS provides the capability of high energy-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of a FWHM energy resolution of < 7eV in the energy range of 0.3 – 10 keV. It utilizes an X-ray micorcalorimeter array operated at 50 mK. The SXS microcalorimeter subsystem is being developed in an EM-FM approach. The EM SXS cryostat was developed and fully tested and, although the design was generally confirmed, several anomalies and problems were found. Among them is the interference of the detector with the micro-vibrations from the mechanical coolers, which is the most difficult one to solve. We have pursued three different countermeasures and two of them seem to be effective. So far we have obtained energy resolutions satisfying the requirement with the FM cryostat.

Published
2014

15. Performance Testing of the Astro-H Flight Model 3-stage ADR

Author

Thomas G. Bialas, Mark O. Kimball, Peter Shirron, and Michael J. DiPirro

Subjects
Physics, Spectrometer, space astronomy, x-ray calorimeter, business.industry, Cryogenic system, Refrigerator car, Physics and Astronomy(all), Astro-H, adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Flight model, Detector array, Space astronomy, Aerospace engineering, business
Abstract

The Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) is one of four instruments that will be flown on the Japanese Astro-H satellite, planned for launch in late 2015/early 2016. The SXS will perform imaging spectroscopy in the soft x-ray band using a 6x6 array of silicon microcalorimeters operated at 50 mK, cooled by an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR). NASA/GSFC is providing the detector array and ADR, and Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Inc. is providing the remainder of the cryogenic system (superfluid helium dewar (

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