THE NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC TELESCOPE ARRAY (NuSTAR) HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY MISSION

被引：1648

作者：

Harrison, Fiona A. ^{[1
]}

Craig, William W. ^{[2
,3
]}

Christensen, Finn E. ^{[4
]}

Hailey, Charles J. ^{[5
]}

Zhang, William W. ^{[6
]}

Boggs, Steven E. ^{[3
]}

Stern, Daniel ^{[7
]}

Cook, W. Rick ^{[1
]}

Forster, Karl ^{[1
]}

Giommi, Paolo ^{[8
]}

Grefenstette, Brian W. ^{[1
]}

Kim, Yunjin ^{[7
]}

Kitaguchi, Takao ^{[9
]}

Koglin, Jason E. ^{[5
,10
]}

Madsen, Kristin K. ^{[1
]}

Mao, Peter H. ^{[1
]}

Miyasaka, Hiromasa ^{[1
]}

Mori, Kaya ^{[5
]}

Perri, Matteo ^{[8
,11
]}

Pivovaroff, Michael J. ^{[2
]}

Puccetti, Simonetta ^{[8
,11
]}

Rana, Vikram R. ^{[1
]}

Westergaard, Niels J. ^{[4
]}

Willis, Jason ^{[7
]}

Zoglauer, Andreas ^{[3
]}

An, Hongjun ^{[12
]}

Bachetti, Matteo ^{[13
,14
]}

Barriere, Nicolas M. ^{[3
]}

Bellm, Eric C. ^{[1
]}

Bhalerao, Varun ^{[1
,15
]}

Brejnholt, Nicolai F. ^{[4
]}

Fuerst, Felix ^{[1
]}

Liebe, Carl C. ^{[7
]}

Markwardt, Craig B. ^{[6
]}

Nynka, Melania ^{[5
]}

Vogel, Julia K. ^{[2
]}

Walton, Dominic J. ^{[1
]}

Wik, Daniel R. ^{[6
]}

Alexander, David M. ^{[16
]}

Cominsky, Lynn R. ^{[17
]}

Hornschemeier, Ann E. ^{[6
]}

Hornstrup, Allan ^{[4
]}

Kaspi, Victoria M. ^{[12
]}

Madejski, Greg M. ^{[10
]}

Matt, Giorgio ^{[18
]}

Molendi, Silvano ^{[19
]}

Smith, David M. ^{[20
,21
]}

Tomsick, John A. ^{[3
]}

Ajello, Marco ^{[3
]}

Ballantyne, David R. ^{[22
]}

机构：

[1] CALTECH, Cahill Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[2] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA

[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[4] Tech Univ Denmark, DTU Space, Natl Space Inst, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark

[5] Columbia Univ, Columbia Astrophys Lab, New York, NY 10027 USA

[6] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[7] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

[8] ESRIN, ASI Sci Data Ctr, I-00044 Frascati, Italy

[9] INAF Osservatorio Astron Roma, I-00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy

[10] RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan

[11] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA

[12] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada

[13] Univ Toulouse, IRAP, UPS OMP, Toulouse, France

[14] CNRS, Inst Rech Astrophys & Planetol, F-31028 Toulouse 4, France

[15] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India

[16] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, Durham DH1 3LE, England

[17] Sonoma State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Rohnert Pk, CA 94928 USA

[18] Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Matemat & Fis, I-00146 Rome, Italy

[19] INAF, IASF Milano, I-20133 Milan, Italy

[20] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA

[21] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA

[22] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[23] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Dept Astron & Astrofis, Santiago 22, Chile

[24] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[25] Penn State Univ, Inst Gravitat & Cosmos, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[26] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[27] MIT, Kavli Inst Astrophys & Space Res, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[28] INAF Osservatorio Astron Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy

[29] Univ Cambridge, Inst Astron, Cambridge CB3 0HA, England

[30] Virginia Tech, Dept Phys, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA

[31] Los Alamos Natl Lab, CCS 2, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

[32] Quest Univ Canada, Squamish, BC V8B 0N8, Canada

[33] Univ Michigan, Dept Astron, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

[34] INAF, Ist Astrofis & Planetol Spaziali, I-00133 Rome, Italy

[35] CALTECH, Infrared Proc & Anal Ctr, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[36] Weizmann Inst Sci, Benoziyo Ctr Astrophys, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel

[37] NC State Univ, Dept Phys, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA

[38] INAF Osservatorio Astron Brera, I-23807 Merate, Italy

[39] Willamette Univ, Dept Phys, Salem, OR 97301 USA

[40] Univ Concepcion, Dept Astron, Concepcion, Chile

[41] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[42] Yale Univ, Yale Ctr Astron & Astrophys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2013年 / 770卷 / 02期

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家航空航天局; 英国科学技术设施理事会;

关键词：

space vehicles: instruments; X-rays: general; SUPERMASSIVE BLACK-HOLE; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; BROAD IRON LINES; SUPERNOVA-REMNANT; XMM-NEWTON; ASCA OBSERVATIONS; NEUTRON-STAR; MULTIWAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS; LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; MILLISECOND PULSAR;

D O I：

10.1088/0004-637X/770/2/103

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, launched on 2012 June 13, is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit. NuSTAR operates in the band from 3 to 79 keV, extending the sensitivity of focusing far beyond the similar to 10 keV high-energy cutoff achieved by all previous X-ray satellites. The inherently low background associated with concentrating the X-ray light enables NuSTAR to probe the hard X-ray sky with a more than 100-fold improvement in sensitivity over the collimated or coded mask instruments that have operated in this bandpass. Using its unprecedented combination of sensitivity and spatial and spectral resolution, NuSTAR will pursue five primary scientific objectives: (1) probe obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity out to the peak epoch of galaxy assembly in the universe (at z less than or similar to 2) by surveying selected regions of the sky; (2) study the population of hard X-ray-emitting compact objects in the Galaxy by mapping the central regions of the Milky Way; (3) study the non-thermal radiation in young supernova remnants, both the hard X-ray continuum and the emission from the radioactive element Ti-44; (4) observe blazars contemporaneously with ground-based radio, optical, and TeV telescopes, as well as with Fermi and Swift, to constrain the structure of AGN jets; and (5) observe line and continuum emission from core-collapse supernovae in the Local Group, and from nearby Type Ia events, to constrain explosion models. During its baseline two-year mission, NuSTAR will also undertake a broad program of targeted observations. The observatory consists of two co-aligned grazing-incidence X-ray telescopes pointed at celestial targets by a three-axis stabilized spacecraft. Deployed into a 600 km, near-circular, 6 degrees inclination orbit, the observatory has now completed commissioning, and is performing consistent with pre-launch expectations. NuSTAR is now executing its primary science mission, and with an expected orbit lifetime of 10 yr, we anticipate proposing a guest investigator program, to begin in late 2014.

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