Hard x-ray imaging system for XEUS

Hideyo Kunieda; Tadayuki Takahashi; Motohide Kokubun; Kazuhiro Nakazawa; Yasushi Ogasaka

doi:10.1117/12.787421

15 July 2008 Hard x-ray imaging system for XEUS

Hideyo Kunieda, Tadayuki Takahashi, Motohide Kokubun, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Yasushi Ogasaka

Proceedings Volume 7011, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 70110D (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787421
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

One of the major sciences of XEUS is the evolution of massive black holes from early to current Universe. As is well known, considerable fraction of massive black holes harbored in active galactic nuclei are embedded in thick absorbing material. In order to observe black holes without any bias of absorption, we propose a hard X-ray imaging system to XEUS. The hard X-ray imaging system is consisted of super mirror X-ray telescopes with multilayer coating and of the position sensitive hard X-ray imaging CdTe detector. Under the current boundary conditions, the design parameters will be optimized for the telescope and the multilayers. Current achievements of hard X-ray imaging detectors are also presented.

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Hideyo Kunieda, Tadayuki Takahashi, Motohide Kokubun, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, and Yasushi Ogasaka "Hard x-ray imaging system for XEUS", Proc. SPIE 7011, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 70110D (15 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787421

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