HaloSat - Soft X-ray Surveor -
- Paper number
IAC-17,B4,2,1,x41784
- Author
Dr. Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Nagoya University, Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Kazuki Sugimoto, Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Shinya Nakano, Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Masashi Ishihara, Japan
- Coauthor
Dr. Keisuke Tamura, Japan
- Coauthor
Dr. Kikuko Miyata, Nagoya University, Japan
- Coauthor
Prof. Yuzuru Tawara, Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Koji Matsushita, Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Kazushi Tachibana, Japan
- Coauthor
Prof. Kaaret Philip, University of Iowa, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Donald Kirchner, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. William Robison, United States
- Coauthor
Dr. Anna Zajczyk, United States
- Coauthor
Ms. Daniel LaRocca, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. William Fuelberth, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Ross McCurdy, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Keith White, United States
- Coauthor
Dr. Keith Jahoda, United States
- Coauthor
Dr. Thomas Johnson, United States
- Coauthor
Dr. Luis Santos, United States
- Coauthor
Dr. Michael Matthews, United States
- Coauthor
Dr. Kip Kuntz, United States
- Year
2017
- Abstract
HaloSat is NASA funded 6U CubeSat mission which will be launched in 2018. HaloSat will conduct a spectroscopic survey in a soft X-ray energy band of 0.4 -- 2.0 keV for the first time in order to draw intensity and temperature maps, and finally extract total mass of the hot gas associated with the X-ray Milky Way halo. Approximately half of predicted baryonic matter in the Universe remains undiscovered and the extended X-ray Galactic halo is considered to be a candidate of the location of this missing matter. Thus, to constrain the mass of the X-ray Galactic halo is cosmologically important from both observational and theoretical points of view to solve the missing baryon problem. Additionally, HaloSat will observe the whole soft X-ray sky including other interesting targets, e.g., Cygnus superbubble, north polar spur, geocoronal and heliospheric solar wind charge exchange, and local hot bubble, which provides us with hints also in terms of galactic formation. HaloSat will perform the survey using three co-aligned SDD detectors in one instrument enclosure with the field of view of {\tt\char92}sim10 degrees. In this conference, we will report the recent status of the mission, e.g., developments of both EM and FM instruments, instrument/payload integration, and environmental tests.- Abstract document
- Manuscript document
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