Astro-E Mission and the X-ray survey

✍ Scribed by T. Takahashi; H. Inoue; Y. Ogawara

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 424 KB
• Volume: 319
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-6337
• DOI: 10.1002/asna.2123190303

✦ Synopsis

The fifth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite, Astro-E, following Hakucho, T e n m a , Ginga, and ASCA is scheduled for launch in the year 2000 by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) with an M-V rocket. The satellite will be put into an approximately circular orbit with an altitude of -550 km and an inclination of -31". There will be three experiments on board Astro-E: an X-ray micro-calorimeter array, four X-ray CCDs and a hard X-ray detector. All three experiments combined, Astro-E will become a spectrometer facility covering a wide energy band from 0.5 keV to 600 keV.