2002/10/10 by P. Ferrando, Philippe Ferrando, Ferrando, Philippe · 3 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques #Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials science #Optics #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Physics #Range (aeronautics) #Telescope #X-ray #X-ray telescope #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210229
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 4 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings SF2A-2002, Paris, ed. F. Combes and D. Barret, EDP-Sciences
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SIMBOL-X is a high energy "mini" satellite class mission that is proposed by a European collaboration for a launch in 2009. SIMBOL-X is making use of a classical X-ray mirror, of ~600 cm2 maximum effective area, with a 30 m focal length in order to cover energies up to several tens of keV. This focal length will be achieved through the use of two spacecrafts in a formation flying configuration. This will give to SIMBOL-X unprecedented spatial resolution (20 arcsec HEW) and sensitivity in the hard X-ray range. By its coverage, from 0.5 to 70 keV, and sensitivity, SIMBOL-X will be an excellent instrument for the study of high energy processes in a large number of sources, both compact and extended.