The ASTRO-H Mission
Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard Kelley, Felix Aharonian,, Fumie Akimoto, Steve Allen, Naohisa Anabuki, Lorella Angelini, Keith Arnaud,, Hisamitsu Awaki, Aya Bamba, Nobutaka Bando, Mark Bautz, Roger Blandford,, Kevin Boyce, Greg Brown, Maria Chernyakova, Paolo Coppi

TL;DR
The ASTRO-H mission is a joint JAXA/NASA project designed to explore high-energy astrophysics through wide-band, high-resolution X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy, enabling new scientific discoveries about the universe.
Contribution
It introduces a new space observatory with advanced instruments for simultaneous broad-band X-ray and gamma-ray observations, combining high spectral resolution with wide energy coverage.
Findings
Successful development of high-resolution micro-calorimeter system.
Wide energy coverage from 0.3 keV to 600 keV achieved.
Enhanced capability for high-energy universe investigations.
Abstract
The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will investigate the physics of the high-energy universe by performing high-resolution, high-throughput spectroscopy with moderate angular resolution. ASTRO-H covers very wide energy range from 0.3 keV to 600 keV. ASTRO-H allows a combination of wide band X-ray spectroscopy (5-80 keV) provided by multilayer coating, focusing hard X-ray mirrors and hard X-ray imaging detectors, and high energy-resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy (0.3-12 keV) provided by thin-foil X-ray optics and a micro-calorimeter array. The mission will also carry an X-ray CCD camera as a focal plane detector for a soft X-ray telescope (0.4-12 keV) and a non-focusing soft gamma-ray detector (40-600 keV) . The micro-calorimeter system is developed…
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