Dr. Meng P. Chiao Profile

Dr. Meng P. Chiao

Research Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Presentation

Status of resolve instrument for x-ray astronomy recovery mission (Conference Presentation)

Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Richard Kelley, Hiroki Akamatsu, Hisamitsu Awaki, Thomas Bialas, Gregory Brown, Meng Chiao, Elisa Costantini, Jan-Willem den Herder, Michael Dipirro, Megan Eckart, Yuichiro Ezoe, Carlo Ferrigno, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Akihiro Furuzawa, Steven Graham, Martin Grim, Takayuki Hayashi, Akio Hoshino, Yuto Ichinohe, Ryo Iizuka, Kazunori Ishibashi, Manabu Ishida, Kumi Ishikawa, Caroline Kilbourne, Shunji Kitamoto, Shu Koyama, Maurice Leutenegger, Yoshitomo Maeda, Dan McCammon, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Hideyuki Mori, Shinya Nakashima, Hirofumi Noda, Takaya Ohashi, Takashi Okajima, Stephane Paltani, F. Scott Porter, Kosuke Sato, Makoto Sawada, Hiromi Seta, Peter Shirron, Gary Sneiderman, Yang Soong, Andrew Szymkowiak, Yoh Takei, Toru Tamagawa, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Shutaro Ueda, Cor de Vries, Shinya Yamada, Noriko Yamasaki

Proc. SPIE. 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Spectroscopy, X-rays, Silicon, Image resolution, Optical instrument design, X-ray astronomy, X-ray telescopes, Spectroscopes

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

Concept of the X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission

Makoto Tashiro, Hironori Maejima, Kenichi Toda, Richard Kelley, Lillian Reichenthal, James Lobell, Robert Petre, Matteo Guainazzi, Elisa Costantini, Mark Edison, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Martin Grim, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jan-Willem den Herder, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Stéphane Paltani, Kyoko Matsushita, Koji Mori, Gary Sneiderman, Yoh Takei, Yukikatsu Terada, Hiroshi Tomida, Hiroki Akamatsu, Lorella Angelini, Yoshitaka Arai, Hisamitsu Awaki, Lurli Babyk, Aya Bamba, Peter Barfknecht, Kim Barnstable, Thomas Bialas, Branimir Blagojevic, Joseph Bonafede, Clifford Brambora, Laura Brenneman, Greg Brown, Kimberly Brown, Laura Burns, Edgar Canavan, Tim Carnahan, Meng Chiao, Brian Comber, Lia Corrales, Cor de Vries, Johannes Dercksen, Maria Diaz-Trigo, Tyrone Dillard, Michael DiPirro, Chris Done, Tadayasu Dotani, Ken Ebisawa, Megan Eckart, Teruaki Enoto, Yuichiro Ezoe, Carlo Ferrigno, Yasushi Fukazawa, Yutaka Fujita, Akihiro Furuzawa, Luigi Gallo, Steve Graham, Liyi Gu, Kohichi Hagino, Kenji Hamaguchi, Isamu Hatsukade, Dean Hawes, Takayuki Hayashi, Cailey Hegarty, Natalie Hell, Junko Hiraga, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Matt Holland, Ann Hornschemeier, Akio Hoshino, Yuto Ichinohe, Ryo Iizuka, Kazunori Ishibashi, Manabu Ishida, Kumi Ishikawa, Kosei Ishimura, Bryan James, Timothy Kallman, Erin Kara, Satoru Katsuda, Steven Kenyon, Caroline Kilbourne, Mark Kimball, Takao Kitaguti, Shunji Kitamoto, Shogo Kobayashi, Takayoshi Kohmura, Shu Koyama, Aya Kubota, Maurice Leutenegger, Tom Lockard, Mike Loewenstein, Yoshitomo Maeda, Lynette Marbley, Maxim Markevitch, Hironori Matsumoto, Keiichi Matsuzaki, Dan McCammon, Brian McNamara, Joseph Miko, Eric Miller, Jon Miller, Kenji Minesugi, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hideyuki Mori, Koji Mukai, Hiroshi Murakami, Richard Mushotzky, Hiroshi Nakajima, Hideto Nakamura, Shinya Nakashima, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Chikara Natsukari, Kenichiro Nigo, Yusuke Nishioka, Kumiko Nobukawa, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hirofumi Noda, Hirokazu Odaka, Mina Ogawa, Takaya Ohashi, Masahiro Ohno, Masayuki Ohta, Takashi Okajima, Atsushi Okamoto, Michitaka Onizuka, Naomi Ota, Masanobu Ozaki, Paul Plucinsky, F. Scott Porter, Katja Pottschmidt, Kosuke Sato, Rie Sato, Makoto Sawada, Hiromi Seta, Ken Shelton, Yasuko Shibano, Maki Shida, Megumi Shidatsu, Peter Shirron, Aurora Simionescu, Randall Smith, Kazunori Someya, Yang Soong, Yasuharu Suagawara, Andy Szymkowiak, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Toru Tamagawa, Takayuki Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Yuichi Terashima, Yohko Tsuboi, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takeshi Tsuru, Hiroyuki Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shinichiro Uno, Thomas Walsh, Shin Watanabe, Brian Williams, Rob Wolfs, Michael Wright, Shinya Yamada, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Noriko Yamasaki, Shigeo Yamauchi, Makoto Yamauchi, Keiichi Yanagase, Tahir Yaqoob, Susumu Yasuda, Nasa Yoshioka, Jaime Zabala, Zhuravleva Irina

Proc. SPIE. 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray

KEYWORDS: Iron, Stars, Spectroscopy, X-rays, Physics, Chemical elements, Galactic astronomy, X-ray astronomy, Galaxy groups and clusters, Plasma

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The ASTRO-H mission was designed and developed through an international collaboration of JAXA, NASA, ESA, and the CSA. It was successfully launched on February 17, 2016, and then named Hitomi. During the in-orbit verification phase, the on-board observational instruments functioned as expected. The intricate coolant and refrigeration systems for soft X-ray spectrometer (SXS, a quantum micro-calorimeter) and soft X-ray imager (SXI, an X-ray CCD) also functioned as expected. However, on March 26, 2016, operations were prematurely terminated by a series of abnormal events and mishaps triggered by the attitude control system. These errors led to a fatal event: the loss of the solar panels on the Hitomi mission. The X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (or, XARM) is proposed to regain the key scientific advances anticipated by the international collaboration behind Hitomi. XARM will recover this science in the shortest time possible by focusing on one of the main science goals of Hitomi,“Resolving astrophysical problems by precise high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy”.¹ This decision was reached after evaluating the performance of the instruments aboard Hitomi and the mission’s initial scientific results, and considering the landscape of planned international X-ray astrophysics missions in 2020’s and 2030’s. Hitomi opened the door to high-resolution spectroscopy in the X-ray universe. It revealed a number of discrepancies between new observational results and prior theoretical predictions. Yet, the resolution pioneered by Hitomi is also the key to answering these and other fundamental questions. The high spectral resolution realized by XARM will not offer mere refinements; rather, it will enable qualitative leaps in astrophysics and plasma physics. XARM has therefore been given a broad scientific charge: “Revealing material circulation and energy transfer in cosmic plasmas and elucidating evolution of cosmic structures and objects”. To fulfill this charge, four categories of science objectives that were defined for Hitomi will also be pursued by XARM; these include (1) Structure formation of the Universe and evolution of clusters of galaxies; (2) Circulation history of baryonic matters in the Universe; (3) Transport and circulation of energy in the Universe; (4) New science with unprecedented high resolution X-ray spectroscopy. In order to achieve these scientific objectives, XARM will carry a 6 × 6 pixelized X-ray micro-calorimeter on the focal plane of an X-ray mirror assembly, and an aligned X-ray CCD camera covering the same energy band and a wider field of view. This paper introduces the science objectives, mission concept, and observing plan of XARM.

SPIE Journal Paper | 28 April 2018

Cryogen-free operation of the Soft X-ray Spectrometer instrument

Gary Sneiderman, Peter Shirron, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Thomas Bialas, Kevin Boyce, Meng Chiao, Michael DiPirro, Megan Eckart, Leslie Hartz, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Caroline Kilbourne, Candace Masters, Daniel McCammon, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Hirofumi Noda, Frederick Porter, Andrew Szymkowiak, Yoh Takei, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Seiji Yoshida

JATIS Vol. 4 Issue 02

KEYWORDS: Helium, X-rays, Cooling systems, Spectroscopy, Sensors, Liquids, Cryocoolers, Cryogenics, X-ray detectors, Temperature metrology

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SPIE Journal Paper | 13 April 2018

Ground calibration of the Astro-H (Hitomi) soft x-ray spectrometer

Megan Eckart, Joseph Adams, Kevin Boyce, Gregory Brown, Meng Chiao, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Daniel Haas, Jan-Willem den Herder, Akio Hoshino, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Caroline Kilbourne, Shunji Kitamoto, Maurice Leutenegger, Daniel McCammon, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, F. Scott Porter, Kosuke Sato, Makoto Sawada, Hiromi Seta, Gary Sneiderman, Andrew Szymkowiak, Yoh Takei, Makoto Tashiro, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Cor de Vries, Tomomi Watanabe, Shinya Yamada, Noriko Yamasaki

JATIS Vol. 4 Issue 02

KEYWORDS: Calibration, X-rays, Sensors, Beryllium, Optical filters, Spectroscopy, Iron, Epoxies, Photons, Silicon

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SPIE Journal Paper | 19 March 2018

In-flight verification of the calibration and performance of the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) Soft X-ray Spectrometer

Maurice A. Leutenegger, Marc Audard, Kevin R. Boyce, Gregory V. Brown, Meng P. Chiao, Megan E. Eckart, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Akihiro Furuzawa, Matteo Guainazzi, Daniel Haas, Takayuki Hayashi, Jan-Willem den Herder, Ryo Iizuka, Manabu Ishida, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Naomichi Kikuchi, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Shu Koyama, Sho Kurashima, Yoshitomo Maeda, Maxim Markevitch, Dan McCammon, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Hideyuki Mori, Nozomi Nakaniwa, Takashi Okajima, Stéphane Paltani, Robert Petre, F. Scott Porter, Kosuke Sato, Toshiki Sato, Makoto Sawada, Peter J. Serlemitsos, Hiromi Seta, Gary Sneiderman, Yang Soong, Satoshi Sugita, Andrew Szymkowiak, Yoh Takei, Makoto Tashiro, Yuzuru Tawara, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Cor de Vries, Tomomi Watanabe, Shinya Yamada, Noriko Yamasaki

JATIS Vol. 4 Issue 02

KEYWORDS: Calibration, X-rays, Iron, Spectroscopy, Image resolution, Aerospace engineering, Sensors, Beryllium, Physics, X-ray imaging

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