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The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Mission | | Fiona A. Harrison
; William W. Craig
; Finn E. Christensen
; Charles J. Hailey
; Will W. Zhang
; Steven E. Boggs
; Daniel Stern
; W. Rick Cook
; Karl Forster
; Paolo Giommi
; Brian W. Grefenstette
; Yunjin Kim
; Takao Kitaguchi
; Jason E Koglin
; Kristin K. Madsen
; Peter H. Mao
; Hiromasa Miyasaka
; Kaya Mori
; Matteo Perri
; Michael J. Pivovaroff
; Simonetta Puccetti
; Vikram R. Rana
; Niels J. Westergaard
; Jason Willis
; Andreas Zoglauer
; Hongjun An
; Matteo Bachetti
; Nicolas M. Barriere
; Eric C. Bellm
; Varun Bhalerao
; Nicolai F. Brejnholt
; Felix Fuerst
; Carl C. Liebe
; Craig B. Markwardt
; Melania Nynka
; Julia K. Vogel
; Dominic J. Walton
; Daniel R. Wik
; David M. Alexander
; Lynn R. Cominsky
; Ann E. Hornschemeier
; Allan Hornstrup
; Victoria M. Kaspi
; Greg M. Madejski
; Giorgio Matt
; Silvano Molendi
; David M. Smith
; John A. Tomsick
; Marco Ajello
; David R. Ballantyne
; Mislav Balokovic
; Diddier Barret
; Franz E. Bauer
; Roger D. Blandford
; W. Niel Brandt
; Laura W. Brenneman
; James Chiang
; Deepto Chakrabarty
; Jerome Chenevez
; Andrea Comastri
; Martin Elvis
; Andrew C. Fabian
; Duncan Farrah
; Chris L. Fryer
; Eric V. Gotthelf
; Jonathan E. Grindlay
; David J. Helfand
; Roman Krivonos
; David L. Meier
; Jon M. Miller
; Lorenzo Natalucci
; Patrick Ogle
; Eran O. Ofek
; Andrew Ptak
; Stephen P. Reynolds
; Jand R. Rigby
; Gianpiero Tagliaferri
; Stephen E. Thorsett
; Ezequiel Treister
; C. Megan Urry
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30 Jan 2013 | | Abstract: | The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, launched on 13
June 2012, is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit. NuSTAR
operates in the band from 3 -- 79 keV, extending the sensitivity of focusing
far beyond the ~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
one-hundred-fold improvement in sensitivity over the collimated or coded-mask
instruments that have operated in this bandpass. Using its unprecedented
combination of sensitivity, spatial and spectral resolution, NuSTAR will pursue
five primary scientific objectives, and 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, 6degree
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 ten years, we
anticipate proposing a guest investigator program, to begin in Fall 2014. | | Source: | arXiv, 1301.7307 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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