The Arcus soft x-ray grating spectrometer explorer

Randall K. Smith

doi:10.1117/12.2576047

22 December 2020 The Arcus soft x-ray grating spectrometer explorer

Randall K. Smith

Proceedings Volume 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 114442C (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2576047
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

Arcus will provide high-resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy in the 12-50Å bandpass with sensitivity orders of magnitude higher than any previous astronomical observatory. The three top science goals for Arcus are to (1) measure the effects of structure formation imprinted upon the hot baryons that are predicted to lie in extended halos around galaxies, groups, and clusters, (2) trace the propagation of outflowing mass, energy, and momentum from the vicinity of the black hole to extragalactic scales as a measure of their feedback and (3) explore how stars form and evolve. Arcus uses the same 12m focal length grazing-incidence silicon pore X-ray optics (SPO) developed for the Athena mission. The focused X-rays from these optics are diffracted by high-efficiency Critical-Angle Transmission (CAT) gratings, and the results are imaged with flight-proven CCD detectors and electronics.

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Randall K. Smith "The Arcus soft x-ray grating spectrometer explorer", Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114442C (22 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2576047

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