Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 021402 |
| Journal | Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 Apr 1 |
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Keywords
- Gamma ray
- Gamma-ray astronomy
- Hard x-ray
- Microcalorimeter
- X-ray
- X-ray astronomy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Instrumentation
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Space and Planetary Science
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HITOMI (ASTRO-H) X-ray astronomy satellite. / Takahashi, Tadayuki; Kokubun, Motohide; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; Kelley, Richard L.; Ohashi, Takaya; Aharonian, Felix; Akamatsu, Hiroki; Akimoto, Fumie; Allen, Steven W.; Anabuki, Naohisa; Angelini, Lorella; Arnaud, Keith; Asai, Makoto; Audard, Marc; Awaki, Hisamitsu; Axelsson, Magnus; Azzarello, Philipp; Baluta, Chris; Bamba, Aya; Bando, Nobutaka; Bautz, Marshall W.; Bialas, Thomas; Blandford, Roger; Boyce, Kevin; Brenneman, Laura W.; Brown, Gregory V.; Bulbul, Esra; Cackett, Edward M.; Canavan, Edgar; Chernyakova, Maria; Chiao, Meng P.; Coppi, Paolo S.; Costantini, Elisa; O' Dell, Steve; DiPirro, Michael; Done, Chris; Dotani, Tadayasu; Doty, John; Ebisawa, Ken; Eckart, Megan E.; Enoto, Teruaki; Ezoe, Yuichiro; Fabian, Andrew C.; Ferrigno, Carlo; Foster, Adam R.; Fujimoto, Ryuichi; Fukazawa, Yasushi; Funk, Stefan; Furuzawa, Akihiro; Galeazzi, Massimiliano; Gallo, Luigi C.; Gandhi, Poshak; Gilmore, Kirk; Giustini, Margherita; Goldwurm, Andrea; Gu, Liyi; Guainazzi, Matteo; Haas, Daniel; Haba, Yoshito; Hagino, Kouichi; Hamaguchi, Kenji; Harrus, Ilana M.; Hatsukade, Isamu; Hayashi, Takayuki; Hayashi, Katsuhiro; Hayashida, Kiyoshi; Den Herder, Jan Willem; Hiraga, Junko S.; Hirose, Kazuyuki; Hornschemeier, Ann; Hoshino, Akio; Hughes, John P.; Ichinohe, Yuto; Iizuka, Ryo; Inoue, Hajime; Inoue, Yoshiyuki; Ishibashi, Kazunori; Ishida, Manabu; Ishikawa, Kumi; Ishimura, Kosei; Ishisaki, Yoshitaka; Itoh, Masayuki; Iwai, Masachika; Iwata, Naoko; Iyomoto, Naoko; Jewell, Chris; Kaastra, Jelle; Kallman, Tim; Kamae, Tsuneyoshi; Kara, Erin; Kataoka, Jun; Katsuda, Satoru; Katsuta, Junichiro; Kawaharada, Madoka; Kawai, Nobuyuki; Kawano, Taro; Kawasaki, Shigeo; Khangulyan, Dmitry; Kilbourne, Caroline A.; Kimball, Mark; King, Ashley; Kitaguchi, Takao; Kitamoto, Shunji; Kitayama, Tetsu; Kohmura, Takayoshi; Konami, Saori; Kosaka, Tatsuro; Koujelev, Alex; Koyama, Katsuji; Koyama, Shu; Kretschmar, Peter; Krimm, Hans A.; Kubota, Aya; Kunieda, Hideyo; Laurent, Philippe; Lee, Shiu Hang; Leutenegger, Maurice A.; Limousin, Olivier; Loewenstein, Michael; Long, Knox S.; Lumb, David; Madejski, Greg; Maeda, Yoshitomo; Maier, Daniel; Makishima, Kazuo; Markevitch, Maxim; Masters, Candace; Matsumoto, Hironori; Matsushita, Kyoko; McCammon, Dan; Mcguinness, Daniel; McNamara, Brian R.; Mehdipour, Missagh; Miko, Joseph; Miller, Eric D.; Miller, Jon M.; Mineshige, Shin; Minesugi, Kenji; Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki; Miyazawa, Takuya; Mizuno, Tsunefumi; Mori, Hideyuki; Mori, Koji; Moroso, Franco; Moseley, Harvey; Muench, Theodore; Mukai, Koji; Murakami, Hiroshi; Murakami, Toshio; Mushotzky, Richard F.; Nagano, Housei; Nagino, Ryo; Nakagawa, Takao; Nakajima, Hiroshi; Nakamori, Takeshi; Nakano, Toshio; Nakashima, Shinya; Nakazawa, Kazuhiro; Namba, Yoshiharu; Natsukari, Chikara; Nishioka, Yusuke; Nobukawa, Kumiko K.; Nobukawa, Masayoshi; Noda, Hirofumi; Nomachi, Masaharu; Odaka, Hirokazu; Ogawa, Hiroyuki; Ogawa, Mina; Ogi, Keiji; Ohno, Masanori; Ohta, Masayuki; Okajima, Takashi; Okamoto, Atsushi; Okazaki, Tsuyoshi; Ota, Naomi; Ozaki, Masanobu; Paerels, Frits; Paltani, Stéphane; Parmar, Arvind; Petre, Robert; Pinto, Ciro; De Plaa, Jelle; Pohl, Martin; Pontius, James; Porter, Frederick S.; Pottschmidt, Katja; Ramsey, Brian; Reynolds, Christopher; Russell, Helen; Safi-Harb, Samar; Saito, Shinya; Sakai, Kazuhiro; Sakai, Shin Ichiro; Sameshima, Hiroaki; Sasaki, Toru; Sato, Goro; Sato, Kosuke; Sato, Rie; Sato, Yoichi; Sawada, Makoto; Schartel, Norbert; Serlemitsos, Peter J.; Seta, Hiromi; Shibano, Yasuko; Shida, Maki; Shidatsu, Megumi; Shimada, Takanobu; Shinozaki, Keisuke; Shirron, Peter; Simionescu, Aurora; Simmons, Cynthia; Smith, Randall K.; Sneiderman, Gary; Soong, Yang; Stawarz, Łukasz; Sugawara, Yasuharu; Sugita, Satoshi; Sugita, Hiroyuki; Szymkowiak, Andrew; Tajima, Hiroyasu; Takahashi, Hiromitsu; Shin'ichiro, Takeda; Takei, Yoh; Tamagawa, Toru; Tamura, Takayuki; Tamura, Keisuke; Tanaka, Takaaki; Tanaka, Yasuo; Tanaka, Yasuyuki T.; Tashiro, Makoto S.; Tawara, Yuzuru; Terada, Yukikatsu; Terashima, Yuichi; Tombesi, Francesco; Tomida, Hiroshi; Tsuboi, Yohko; Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Tsunemi, Hiroshi; Tsuru, Takeshi Go; Uchida, Hiroyuki; Uchiyama, Hideki; Uchiyama, Yasunobu; Ueda, Shutaro; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Ueno, Shiro; Shin'ichiro, Uno; Megan Urry, C.; Ursino, Eugenio; De Vries, Cor P.; Wada, Atsushi; Watanabe, Shin; Watanabe, Tomomi; Werner, Norbert; Wik, Daniel R.; Wilkins, Dan R.; Williams, Brian J.; Yamada, Shinya; Yamada, Takahiro; Yamaguchi, Hiroya; Yamaoka, Kazutaka; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.; Yamauchi, Makoto; Yamauchi, Shigeo; Yaqoob, Tahir; Yatsu, Yoichi; Yonetoku, Daisuke; Yoshida, Atsumasa; Yuasa, Takayuki; Zhuravleva, Irina; Zoghbi, Abderahmen.
In: Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, 021402, 01.04.2018.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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AU - Takahashi, Tadayuki
AU - Kokubun, Motohide
AU - Mitsuda, Kazuhisa
AU - Kelley, Richard L.
AU - Ohashi, Takaya
AU - Aharonian, Felix
AU - Akamatsu, Hiroki
AU - Akimoto, Fumie
AU - Allen, Steven W.
AU - Anabuki, Naohisa
AU - Angelini, Lorella
AU - Arnaud, Keith
AU - Asai, Makoto
AU - Audard, Marc
AU - Awaki, Hisamitsu
AU - Axelsson, Magnus
AU - Azzarello, Philipp
AU - Baluta, Chris
AU - Bamba, Aya
AU - Bando, Nobutaka
AU - Bautz, Marshall W.
AU - Bialas, Thomas
AU - Blandford, Roger
AU - Boyce, Kevin
AU - Brenneman, Laura W.
AU - Brown, Gregory V.
AU - Bulbul, Esra
AU - Cackett, Edward M.
AU - Canavan, Edgar
AU - Chernyakova, Maria
AU - Chiao, Meng P.
AU - Coppi, Paolo S.
AU - Costantini, Elisa
AU - O' Dell, Steve
AU - DiPirro, Michael
AU - Done, Chris
AU - Dotani, Tadayasu
AU - Doty, John
AU - Ebisawa, Ken
AU - Eckart, Megan E.
AU - Enoto, Teruaki
AU - Ezoe, Yuichiro
AU - Fabian, Andrew C.
AU - Ferrigno, Carlo
AU - Foster, Adam R.
AU - Fujimoto, Ryuichi
AU - Fukazawa, Yasushi
AU - Funk, Stefan
AU - Furuzawa, Akihiro
AU - Galeazzi, Massimiliano
AU - Gallo, Luigi C.
AU - Gandhi, Poshak
AU - Gilmore, Kirk
AU - Giustini, Margherita
AU - Goldwurm, Andrea
AU - Gu, Liyi
AU - Guainazzi, Matteo
AU - Haas, Daniel
AU - Haba, Yoshito
AU - Hagino, Kouichi
AU - Hamaguchi, Kenji
AU - Harrus, Ilana M.
AU - Hatsukade, Isamu
AU - Hayashi, Takayuki
AU - Hayashi, Katsuhiro
AU - Hayashida, Kiyoshi
AU - Den Herder, Jan Willem
AU - Hiraga, Junko S.
AU - Hirose, Kazuyuki
AU - Hornschemeier, Ann
AU - Hoshino, Akio
AU - Hughes, John P.
AU - Ichinohe, Yuto
AU - Iizuka, Ryo
AU - Inoue, Hajime
AU - Inoue, Yoshiyuki
AU - Ishibashi, Kazunori
AU - Ishida, Manabu
AU - Ishikawa, Kumi
AU - Ishimura, Kosei
AU - Ishisaki, Yoshitaka
AU - Itoh, Masayuki
AU - Iwai, Masachika
AU - Iwata, Naoko
AU - Iyomoto, Naoko
AU - Jewell, Chris
AU - Kaastra, Jelle
AU - Kallman, Tim
AU - Kamae, Tsuneyoshi
AU - Kara, Erin
AU - Kataoka, Jun
AU - Katsuda, Satoru
AU - Katsuta, Junichiro
AU - Kawaharada, Madoka
AU - Kawai, Nobuyuki
AU - Kawano, Taro
AU - Kawasaki, Shigeo
AU - Khangulyan, Dmitry
AU - Kilbourne, Caroline A.
AU - Kimball, Mark
AU - King, Ashley
AU - Kitaguchi, Takao
AU - Kitamoto, Shunji
AU - Kitayama, Tetsu
AU - Kohmura, Takayoshi
AU - Konami, Saori
AU - Kosaka, Tatsuro
AU - Koujelev, Alex
AU - Koyama, Katsuji
AU - Koyama, Shu
AU - Kretschmar, Peter
AU - Krimm, Hans A.
AU - Kubota, Aya
AU - Kunieda, Hideyo
AU - Laurent, Philippe
AU - Lee, Shiu Hang
AU - Leutenegger, Maurice A.
AU - Limousin, Olivier
AU - Loewenstein, Michael
AU - Long, Knox S.
AU - Lumb, David
AU - Madejski, Greg
AU - Maeda, Yoshitomo
AU - Maier, Daniel
AU - Makishima, Kazuo
AU - Markevitch, Maxim
AU - Masters, Candace
AU - Matsumoto, Hironori
AU - Matsushita, Kyoko
AU - McCammon, Dan
AU - Mcguinness, Daniel
AU - McNamara, Brian R.
AU - Mehdipour, Missagh
AU - Miko, Joseph
AU - Miller, Eric D.
AU - Miller, Jon M.
AU - Mineshige, Shin
AU - Minesugi, Kenji
AU - Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki
AU - Miyazawa, Takuya
AU - Mizuno, Tsunefumi
AU - Mori, Hideyuki
AU - Mori, Koji
AU - Moroso, Franco
AU - Moseley, Harvey
AU - Muench, Theodore
AU - Mukai, Koji
AU - Murakami, Hiroshi
AU - Murakami, Toshio
AU - Mushotzky, Richard F.
AU - Nagano, Housei
AU - Nagino, Ryo
AU - Nakagawa, Takao
AU - Nakajima, Hiroshi
AU - Nakamori, Takeshi
AU - Nakano, Toshio
AU - Nakashima, Shinya
AU - Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
AU - Namba, Yoshiharu
AU - Natsukari, Chikara
AU - Nishioka, Yusuke
AU - Nobukawa, Kumiko K.
AU - Nobukawa, Masayoshi
AU - Noda, Hirofumi
AU - Nomachi, Masaharu
AU - Odaka, Hirokazu
AU - Ogawa, Hiroyuki
AU - Ogawa, Mina
AU - Ogi, Keiji
AU - Ohno, Masanori
AU - Ohta, Masayuki
AU - Okajima, Takashi
AU - Okamoto, Atsushi
AU - Okazaki, Tsuyoshi
AU - Ota, Naomi
AU - Ozaki, Masanobu
AU - Paerels, Frits
AU - Paltani, Stéphane
AU - Parmar, Arvind
AU - Petre, Robert
AU - Pinto, Ciro
AU - De Plaa, Jelle
AU - Pohl, Martin
AU - Pontius, James
AU - Porter, Frederick S.
AU - Pottschmidt, Katja
AU - Ramsey, Brian
AU - Reynolds, Christopher
AU - Russell, Helen
AU - Safi-Harb, Samar
AU - Saito, Shinya
AU - Sakai, Kazuhiro
AU - Sakai, Shin Ichiro
AU - Sameshima, Hiroaki
AU - Sasaki, Toru
AU - Sato, Goro
AU - Sato, Kosuke
AU - Sato, Rie
AU - Sato, Yoichi
AU - Sawada, Makoto
AU - Schartel, Norbert
AU - Serlemitsos, Peter J.
AU - Seta, Hiromi
AU - Shibano, Yasuko
AU - Shida, Maki
AU - Shidatsu, Megumi
AU - Shimada, Takanobu
AU - Shinozaki, Keisuke
AU - Shirron, Peter
AU - Simionescu, Aurora
AU - Simmons, Cynthia
AU - Smith, Randall K.
AU - Sneiderman, Gary
AU - Soong, Yang
AU - Stawarz, Łukasz
AU - Sugawara, Yasuharu
AU - Sugita, Satoshi
AU - Sugita, Hiroyuki
AU - Szymkowiak, Andrew
AU - Tajima, Hiroyasu
AU - Takahashi, Hiromitsu
AU - Shin'ichiro, Takeda
AU - Takei, Yoh
AU - Tamagawa, Toru
AU - Tamura, Takayuki
AU - Tamura, Keisuke
AU - Tanaka, Takaaki
AU - Tanaka, Yasuo
AU - Tanaka, Yasuyuki T.
AU - Tashiro, Makoto S.
AU - Tawara, Yuzuru
AU - Terada, Yukikatsu
AU - Terashima, Yuichi
AU - Tombesi, Francesco
AU - Tomida, Hiroshi
AU - Tsuboi, Yohko
AU - Tsujimoto, Masahiro
AU - Tsunemi, Hiroshi
AU - Tsuru, Takeshi Go
AU - Uchida, Hiroyuki
AU - Uchiyama, Hideki
AU - Uchiyama, Yasunobu
AU - Ueda, Shutaro
AU - Ueda, Yoshihiro
AU - Ueno, Shiro
AU - Shin'ichiro, Uno
AU - Megan Urry, C.
AU - Ursino, Eugenio
AU - De Vries, Cor P.
AU - Wada, Atsushi
AU - Watanabe, Shin
AU - Watanabe, Tomomi
AU - Werner, Norbert
AU - Wik, Daniel R.
AU - Wilkins, Dan R.
AU - Williams, Brian J.
AU - Yamada, Shinya
AU - Yamada, Takahiro
AU - Yamaguchi, Hiroya
AU - Yamaoka, Kazutaka
AU - Yamasaki, Noriko Y.
AU - Yamauchi, Makoto
AU - Yamauchi, Shigeo
AU - Yaqoob, Tahir
AU - Yatsu, Yoichi
AU - Yonetoku, Daisuke
AU - Yoshida, Atsumasa
AU - Yuasa, Takayuki
AU - Zhuravleva, Irina
AU - Zoghbi, Abderahmen
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Gamma ray
KW - Gamma-ray astronomy
KW - Hard x-ray
KW - Microcalorimeter
KW - X-ray
KW - X-ray astronomy
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JF - Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
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