Journal
JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1117/1.JATIS.4.2.021402
Keywords
x-ray; hard x-ray; gamma ray; x-ray astronomy; gamma-ray astronomy; microcalorimeter
Funding
- JSPS Core-to-Core Program
- NASA Science Mission Directorate
- DoE [DE-AC3-76SF00515]
- U.S. DoE by LLNL [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- European Space Agency
- Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
- NWO, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- JSPS/MEXT KAKENHI [JP15H00773, JP15H00785, JP15H02070, JP15H02090, JP15H03639, JP15H03641, JP15H03642, JP15H05438, JP15H06896, JP15J02737, JP15K05107]
- NASA [NNX15AC76G, NNX15AE16G, NNX15AK71G, NNX15AU54G, NNX15AW94G, NNG15PP48P, NAS8-03060]
- Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers, MEXT, Japan
- Research Fellowship of JSPS for Young Scientists
- NWO via Veni grant
- STFC [ST/L00075X/1]
- ERC [340442]
- JAXA International Top Young Fellowship
- UK Science and Technology Funding Council [ST/J003697/2]
- MEXT Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities
- NSERC
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences [Lendulet LP2016-11]
- NASA - Chandra X-ray Center [PF6-170160]
- Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
- Canadian Space Agency
- [JP15K17610]
- [JP15K17657]
- [JP16H00949]
- [JP16H03983]
- [JP16H06342]
- [JP16J00548]
- [JP16J02333]
- [JP16K05295]
- [JP16K05296]
- [JP16K05300]
- [JP16K05309]
- [JP16K13787]
- [JP16K17667]
- [JP16K17672]
- [JP16K17673]
- [JP17H02864]
- [JP17K05393]
- [JP21659292]
- [JP23340055]
- [JP23340071]
- [JP23540280]
- [JP24105007]
- [JP24244014]
- [JP24540232]
- [JP25105516]
- [JP25109004]
- [JP25247028]
- [JP25287042]
- [JP25400236]
- [JP25800119]
- [JP26109506]
- [JP26220703]
- [JP26400228]
- [JP26610047]
- [JP26800102]
- STFC [ST/P004636/1, ST/J003697/2, ST/P000541/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26800160, 26800144, 16J02333, 15K17610] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft x-rays to gamma rays. After a successful launch on February 17, 2016, the spacecraft lost its function on March 26, 2016, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the onboard instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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