The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) X-ray astronomy satellite

Tadayuki Takahashi; Motohide Kokubun; Kazuhisa Mitsuda; Richard Kelley; Takaya Ohashi; Felix Aharonian; Hiroki Akamatsu; Fumie Akimoto; Steve Allen; Naohisa Anabuki; Lorella Angelini; Keith Arnaud; Makoto Asai; Marc Audard; Hisamitsu Awaki; Magnus Axelsson; Philipp Azzarello; Chris Baluta; Aya Bamba; Nobutaka Bando; Marshall Bautz; Thomas Bialas; Roger Blandford; Kevin Boyce; Laura Brenneman; Greg Brown; Esra Bulbul; Edward Cackett; Edgar Canavan; Maria Chernyakova; Meng Chiao; Paolo Coppi; Elisa Costantini; Jelle De Plaa; Jan Willem Den Herder; Michael DiPirro; Chris Done; Tadayasu Dotani; John Doty; Ken Ebisawa; Megan Eckart; Teruaki Enoto; Yuichiro Ezoe; Andrew Fabian; Carlo Ferrigno; Adam Foster; Ryuichi Fujimoto; Yasushi Fukazawa; Akihiro Furuzawa; Massimiliano Galeazzi; Luigi Gallo; Poshak Gandhi; Kirk Gilmore; Margherita Giustini; Andrea Goldwurm; Liyi Gu; Matteo Guainazzi; Daniel Haas; Yoshito Haba; Kouichi Hagino; Kenji Hamaguchi; Atsushi Harayama; Ilana Harrus; Isamu Hatsukade; Takayuki Hayashi; Katsuhiro Hayashi; Kiyoshi Hayashida; Junko Hiraga; Kazuyuki Hirose; Ann Hornschemeier; Akio Hoshino; John Hughes; Yuto Ichinohe; Ryo Iizuka; Yoshiyuki Inoue; Hajime Inoue; Kazunori Ishibashi; Manabu Ishida; Kumi Ishikawa; Kosei Ishimura; Yoshitaka Ishisaki; Masayuki Itoh; Naoko Iwata; Naoko Iyomoto; Chris Jewell; Jelle Kaastra; Timothy Kallman; Tuneyoshi Kamae; Erin Kara; Jun Kataoka; Satoru Katsuda; Junichiro Katsuta; Madoka Kawaharada; Nobuyuki Kawai; Taro Kawano; Shigeo Kawasaki; Dmitry Khangulyan; Caroline Kilbourne; Mark Kimball; Ashley King; Takao Kitaguchi; Shunji Kitamoto; Tetsu Kitayama; Takayoshi Kohmura; Tatsuro Kosaka; Alex Koujelev; Katsuji Koyama; Shu Koyama; Peter Kretschmar; Hans Krimm; Aya Kubota; Hideyo Kunieda; Philippe Laurent; François Lebrun; Shiu Hang Lee; Maurice Leutenegger; Olivier Limousin; Michael Loewenstein; Knox Long; David Lumb; Grzegorz Madejski; Yoshitomo Maeda; Daniel Maier; Kazuo Makishima; Maxim Markevitch; Candace Masters; Hironori Matsumoto; Kyoko Matsushita; Dan McCammon; Daniel Mcguinness; Brian McNamara; Missagh Mehdipour; Joseph Miko; Jon Miller; Eric Miller; Shin Mineshige; Kenji Minesugi; Ikuyuki Mitsuishi; Takuya Miyazawa; Tsunefumi Mizuno; Koji Mori; Hideyuki Mori; Franco Moroso; Harvey Moseley; Theodore Muench; Koji Mukai; Hiroshi Murakami; Toshio Murakami; Richard Mushotzky; Housei Nagano; Ryo Nagino; Takao Nakagawa; Hiroshi Nakajima; Takeshi Nakamori; Toshio Nakano; Shinya Nakashima; Kazuhiro Nakazawa; Yoshiharu Namba; Chikara Natsukari; Yusuke Nishioka; Masayoshi Nobukawa; Kumiko Nobukawa; Hirofumi Noda; Masaharu Nomachi; Steve O'Dell; Hirokazu Odaka; Hiroyuki Ogawa; Mina Ogawa; Keiji Ogi; Masanori Ohno; Masayuki Ohta; Takashi Okajima; Atsushi Okamoto; Tsuyoshi Okazaki; Naomi Ota; Masanobu Ozaki; Frederik Paerels; Stéphane Paltani; Arvind Parmar; Robert Petre; Ciro Pinto; Martin Pohl; James Pontius; F. Scott Porter; Katja Pottschmidt; Brian Ramsey; Christopher Reynolds; Helen Russell; Samar Safi-Harb; Shinya Saito; Shin Ichiro Sakai; Kazuhiro Sakai; Hiroaki Sameshima; Toru Sasaki; Goro Sato; Yoichi Sato; Kosuke Sato; Rie Sato; Makoto Sawada; Norbert Schartel; Peter Serlemitsos; Hiromi Seta; Yasuko Shibano; Maki Shida; Megumi Shidatsu; Takanobu Shimada; Keisuke Shinozaki; Peter Shirron; Aurora Simionescu; Cynthia Simmons; Randall Smith; Gary Sneiderman; Yang Soong; Łukasz Stawarz; Yasuharu Sugawara; Hiroyuki Sugita; Satoshi Sugita; Andrew Szymkowiak; Hiroyasu Tajima; Hiromitsu Takahashi; Shin'ichiro Takeda; Yoh Takei; Toru Tamagawa; Takayuki Tamura; Keisuke Tamura; Takaaki Tanaka; Yasuo Tanaka; Yasuyuki Tanaka; Makoto Tashiro; Yuzuru Tawara; Yukikatsu Terada; Yuichi Terashima; Francesco Tombesi; Hiroshi Tomida; Yohko Tsuboi; Masahiro Tsujimoto; Hiroshi Tsunemi; Takeshi Tsuru; Hiroyuki Uchida; Yasunobu Uchiyama; Hideki Uchiyama; Yoshihiro Ueda; Shutaro Ueda; Shiro Ueno; Shin'ichiro Uno; Meg Urry; Eugenio Ursino; Cor De Vries; Atsushi Wada; Shin Watanabe; Tomomi Watanabe; Norbert Werner; Daniel Wik; Dan Wilkins; Brian Williams; Takahiro Yamada; Shinya Yamada; Hiroya Yamaguchi; Kazutaka Yamaoka; Noriko Yamasaki; Makoto Yamauchi; Shigeo Yamauchi; Tahir Yaqoob; Yoichi Yatsu; Daisuke Yonetoku; Atsumasa Yoshida; Takayuki Yuasa; Irina Zhuravleva; Abderahmen Zoghbi

doi:10.1117/12.2232379

The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) X-ray astronomy satellite

Tadayuki Takahashi, Motohide Kokubun, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard Kelley, Takaya Ohashi, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu, Fumie Akimoto, Steve Allen, Naohisa Anabuki, Lorella Angelini, Keith Arnaud, Makoto Asai, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki, Magnus Axelsson, Philipp Azzarello, Chris Baluta, Aya Bamba, Nobutaka BandoMarshall Bautz, Thomas Bialas, Roger Blandford, Kevin Boyce, Laura Brenneman, Greg Brown, Esra Bulbul, Edward Cackett, Edgar Canavan, Maria Chernyakova, Meng Chiao, Paolo Coppi, Elisa Costantini, Jelle De Plaa, Jan Willem Den Herder, Michael DiPirro, Chris Done, Tadayasu Dotani, John Doty, Ken Ebisawa, Megan Eckart, Teruaki Enoto, Yuichiro Ezoe, Andrew Fabian, Carlo Ferrigno, Adam Foster, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Yasushi Fukazawa, Akihiro Furuzawa, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Luigi Gallo, Poshak Gandhi, Kirk Gilmore, Margherita Giustini, Andrea Goldwurm, Liyi Gu, Matteo Guainazzi, Daniel Haas, Yoshito Haba, Kouichi Hagino, Kenji Hamaguchi, Atsushi Harayama, Ilana Harrus, Isamu Hatsukade, Takayuki Hayashi, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Junko Hiraga, Kazuyuki Hirose, Ann Hornschemeier, Akio Hoshino, John Hughes, Yuto Ichinohe, Ryo Iizuka, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Hajime Inoue, Kazunori Ishibashi, Manabu Ishida, Kumi Ishikawa, Kosei Ishimura, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Masayuki Itoh, Naoko Iwata, Naoko Iyomoto, Chris Jewell, Jelle Kaastra, Timothy Kallman, Tuneyoshi Kamae, Erin Kara, Jun Kataoka, Satoru Katsuda, Junichiro Katsuta, Madoka Kawaharada, Nobuyuki Kawai, Taro Kawano, Shigeo Kawasaki, Dmitry Khangulyan, Caroline Kilbourne, Mark Kimball, Ashley King, Takao Kitaguchi, Shunji Kitamoto, Tetsu Kitayama, Takayoshi Kohmura, Tatsuro Kosaka, Alex Koujelev, Katsuji Koyama, Shu Koyama, Peter Kretschmar, Hans Krimm, Aya Kubota, Hideyo Kunieda, Philippe Laurent, François Lebrun, Shiu Hang Lee, Maurice Leutenegger, Olivier Limousin, Michael Loewenstein, Knox Long, David Lumb, Grzegorz Madejski, Yoshitomo Maeda, Daniel Maier, Kazuo Makishima, Maxim Markevitch, Candace Masters, Hironori Matsumoto, Kyoko Matsushita, Dan McCammon, Daniel Mcguinness, Brian McNamara, Missagh Mehdipour, Joseph Miko, Jon Miller, Eric Miller, Shin Mineshige, Kenji Minesugi, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Takuya Miyazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Koji Mori, Hideyuki Mori, Franco Moroso, Harvey Moseley, Theodore Muench, Koji Mukai, Hiroshi Murakami, Toshio Murakami, Richard Mushotzky, Housei Nagano, Ryo Nagino, Takao Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takeshi Nakamori, Toshio Nakano, Shinya Nakashima, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Yoshiharu Namba, Chikara Natsukari, Yusuke Nishioka, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Kumiko Nobukawa, Hirofumi Noda, Masaharu Nomachi, Steve O'Dell, Hirokazu Odaka, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Mina Ogawa, Keiji Ogi, Masanori Ohno, Masayuki Ohta, Takashi Okajima, Atsushi Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Naomi Ota, Masanobu Ozaki, Frederik Paerels, Stéphane Paltani, Arvind Parmar, Robert Petre, Ciro Pinto, Martin Pohl, James Pontius, F. Scott Porter, Katja Pottschmidt, Brian Ramsey, Christopher Reynolds, Helen Russell, Samar Safi-Harb, Shinya Saito, Shin Ichiro Sakai, Kazuhiro Sakai, Hiroaki Sameshima, Toru Sasaki, Goro Sato, Yoichi Sato, Kosuke Sato, Rie Sato, Makoto Sawada, Norbert Schartel, Peter Serlemitsos, Hiromi Seta, Yasuko Shibano, Maki Shida, Megumi Shidatsu, Takanobu Shimada, Keisuke Shinozaki, Peter Shirron, Aurora Simionescu, Cynthia Simmons, Randall Smith, Gary Sneiderman, Yang Soong, Łukasz Stawarz, Yasuharu Sugawara, Hiroyuki Sugita, Satoshi Sugita, Andrew Szymkowiak, Hiroyasu Tajima, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Shin'ichiro Takeda, Yoh Takei, Toru Tamagawa, Takayuki Tamura, Keisuke Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Yasuo Tanaka, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Makoto Tashiro, Yuzuru Tawara, Yukikatsu Terada, Yuichi Terashima, Francesco Tombesi, Hiroshi Tomida, Yohko Tsuboi, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takeshi Tsuru, Hiroyuki Uchida, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Hideki Uchiyama, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shutaro Ueda, Shiro Ueno, Shin'ichiro Uno, Meg Urry, Eugenio Ursino, Cor De Vries, Atsushi Wada, Shin Watanabe, Tomomi Watanabe, Norbert Werner, Daniel Wik, Dan Wilkins, Brian Williams, Takahiro Yamada, Shinya Yamada, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Noriko Yamasaki, Makoto Yamauchi, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tahir Yaqoob, Yoichi Yatsu, Daisuke Yonetoku, Atsumasa Yoshida, Takayuki Yuasa, Irina Zhuravleva, Abderahmen Zoghbi

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Abstract

The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft X-rays to gamma-rays. After a successful launch on 2016 February 17, the spacecraft lost its function on 2016 March 26, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the on-board instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Editors	Marshall Bautz, Tadayuki Takahashi, Jan-Willem A. den Herder
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510601895
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232379
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 2016 Jun 26 → 2016 Jul 1

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9905
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Other

Other	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	16/6/26 → 16/7/1

Keywords

Gamma-ray
Gamma-ray Astronomy
Hard X-ray
X-ray
X-ray Astronomy
microcalorimeter

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Takahashi, T., Kokubun, M., Mitsuda, K., Kelley, R., Ohashi, T., Aharonian, F., Akamatsu, H., Akimoto, F., Allen, S., Anabuki, N., Angelini, L., Arnaud, K., Asai, M., Audard, M., Awaki, H., Axelsson, M., Azzarello, P., Baluta, C., Bamba, A., ... Zoghbi, A. (2016). The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) X-ray astronomy satellite. In M. Bautz, T. Takahashi, & J-W. A. den Herder (Eds.), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article 99050U (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9905). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232379

The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) X-ray astronomy satellite. / Takahashi, Tadayuki; Kokubun, Motohide; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. ed. / Marshall Bautz; Tadayuki Takahashi; Jan-Willem A. den Herder. SPIE, 2016. 99050U (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9905).

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Takahashi, T, Kokubun, M, Mitsuda, K, Kelley, R, Ohashi, T, Aharonian, F, Akamatsu, H, Akimoto, F, Allen, S, Anabuki, N, Angelini, L, Arnaud, K, Asai, M, Audard, M, Awaki, H, Axelsson, M, Azzarello, P, Baluta, C, Bamba, A, Bando, N, Bautz, M, Bialas, T, Blandford, R, Boyce, K, Brenneman, L, Brown, G, Bulbul, E, Cackett, E, Canavan, E, Chernyakova, M, Chiao, M, Coppi, P, Costantini, E, De Plaa, J, Den Herder, JW, DiPirro, M, Done, C, Dotani, T, Doty, J, Ebisawa, K, Eckart, M, Enoto, T, Ezoe, Y, Fabian, A, Ferrigno, C, Foster, A, Fujimoto, R, Fukazawa, Y, Furuzawa, A, Galeazzi, M, Gallo, L, Gandhi, P, Gilmore, K, Giustini, M, Goldwurm, A, Gu, L, Guainazzi, M, Haas, D, Haba, Y, Hagino, K, Hamaguchi, K, Harayama, A, Harrus, I, Hatsukade, I, Hayashi, T, Hayashi, K, Hayashida, K, Hiraga, J, Hirose, K, Hornschemeier, A, Hoshino, A, Hughes, J, Ichinohe, Y, Iizuka, R, Inoue, Y, Inoue, H, Ishibashi, K, Ishida, M, Ishikawa, K, Ishimura, K, Ishisaki, Y, Itoh, M, Iwata, N, Iyomoto, N, Jewell, C, Kaastra, J, Kallman, T, Kamae, T, Kara, E, Kataoka, J, Katsuda, S, Katsuta, J, Kawaharada, M, Kawai, N, Kawano, T, Kawasaki, S, Khangulyan, D, Kilbourne, C, Kimball, M, King, A, Kitaguchi, T, Kitamoto, S, Kitayama, T, Kohmura, T, Kosaka, T, Koujelev, A, Koyama, K, Koyama, S, Kretschmar, P, Krimm, H, Kubota, A, Kunieda, H, Laurent, P, Lebrun, F, Lee, SH, Leutenegger, M, Limousin, O, Loewenstein, M, Long, K, Lumb, D, Madejski, G, Maeda, Y, Maier, D, Makishima, K, Markevitch, M, Masters, C, Matsumoto, H, Matsushita, K, McCammon, D, Mcguinness, D, McNamara, B, Mehdipour, M, Miko, J, Miller, J, Miller, E, Mineshige, S, Minesugi, K, Mitsuishi, I, Miyazawa, T, Mizuno, T, Mori, K, Mori, H, Moroso, F, Moseley, H, Muench, T, Mukai, K, Murakami, H, Murakami, T, Mushotzky, R, Nagano, H, Nagino, R, Nakagawa, T, Nakajima, H, Nakamori, T, Nakano, T, Nakashima, S, Nakazawa, K, Namba, Y, Natsukari, C, Nishioka, Y, Nobukawa, M, Nobukawa, K, Noda, H, Nomachi, M, O'Dell, S, Odaka, H, Ogawa, H, Ogawa, M, Ogi, K, Ohno, M, Ohta, M, Okajima, T, Okamoto, A, Okazaki, T, Ota, N, Ozaki, M, Paerels, F, Paltani, S, Parmar, A, Petre, R, Pinto, C, Pohl, M, Pontius, J, Porter, FS, Pottschmidt, K, Ramsey, B, Reynolds, C, Russell, H, Safi-Harb, S, Saito, S, Sakai, SI, Sakai, K, Sameshima, H, Sasaki, T, Sato, G, Sato, Y, Sato, K, Sato, R, Sawada, M, Schartel, N, Serlemitsos, P, Seta, H, Shibano, Y, Shida, M, Shidatsu, M, Shimada, T, Shinozaki, K, Shirron, P, Simionescu, A, Simmons, C, Smith, R, Sneiderman, G, Soong, Y, Stawarz, Ł, Sugawara, Y, Sugita, H, Sugita, S, Szymkowiak, A, Tajima, H, Takahashi, H, Takeda, S, Takei, Y, Tamagawa, T, Tamura, T, Tamura, K, Tanaka, T, Tanaka, Y, Tanaka, Y, Tashiro, M, Tawara, Y, Terada, Y, Terashima, Y, Tombesi, F, Tomida, H, Tsuboi, Y, Tsujimoto, M, Tsunemi, H, Tsuru, T, Uchida, H, Uchiyama, Y, Uchiyama, H, Ueda, Y, Ueda, S, Ueno, S, Uno, S, Urry, M, Ursino, E, De Vries, C, Wada, A, Watanabe, S, Watanabe, T, Werner, N, Wik, D, Wilkins, D, Williams, B, Yamada, T, Yamada, S, Yamaguchi, H, Yamaoka, K, Yamasaki, N, Yamauchi, M, Yamauchi, S, Yaqoob, T, Yatsu, Y, Yonetoku, D, Yoshida, A, Yuasa, T, Zhuravleva, I & Zoghbi, A 2016, The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) X-ray astronomy satellite. in M Bautz, T Takahashi & J-WA den Herder (eds), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray., 99050U, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9905, SPIE, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 16/6/26. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232379

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note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge all the JAXA members who have contributed to the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) project. All U.S. members gratefully acknowledge support through the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Stanford and SLAC members acknowledge support via DoE contract to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory DE-AC3- 76SF00515 and NASA grant NNX15AM19G. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DoE by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344 and also supported by NASA grants to LLNL. Support from the European Space Agency is gratefully acknowledged. French members acknowledge support from CNES, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales. SRON is supported by NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Swiss team acknowledges support of the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI and ESA's PRODEX programme. The Canadian Space Agency is acknowledged for the support of Canadian members. We acknowledge support from JSPS/MEXT KAKENHI grant numbers 15H02070, 15K05107, 23340071, 26109506, 24103002, 25400236, 25800119, 25400237, 25287042, 24540229, 25105516, 23540280, 25400235, 25247028, 26800095, 25400231, 25247028, 26220703, 24105007, 23340055, 15H00773, 23000004 15H02090, 15K17610, 15H05438, 15H00785, and 24540232. H. Akamatsu acknowledges support of NWO via Veni grant. M. Axelsson acknowledges JSPS International Research Fellowship. C. Done acknowledges STFC funding under grant ST/L00075X/1. P. Gandhi acknowledges JAXA International Top Young Fellowship and UK Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC) grant ST/J003697/2. H. Russell acknowledges support from ERC Advanced Grant Feedback 340442. We thank contributions by many companies, including in particular, NEC, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Japan Aviation Electronics Industry. We thank the support from the JSPS Core-to-Core Program. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 SPIE.; Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray ; Conference date: 26-06-2016 Through 01-07-2016",

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T1 - The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) X-ray astronomy satellite

AU - Takahashi, Tadayuki

AU - Kokubun, Motohide

AU - Mitsuda, Kazuhisa

AU - Kelley, Richard

AU - Ohashi, Takaya

AU - Aharonian, Felix

AU - Akamatsu, Hiroki

AU - Akimoto, Fumie

AU - Allen, Steve

AU - Anabuki, Naohisa

AU - Angelini, Lorella

AU - Arnaud, Keith

AU - Asai, Makoto

AU - Audard, Marc

AU - Awaki, Hisamitsu

AU - Axelsson, Magnus

AU - Azzarello, Philipp

AU - Baluta, Chris

AU - Bamba, Aya

AU - Bando, Nobutaka

AU - Bautz, Marshall

AU - Bialas, Thomas

AU - Blandford, Roger

AU - Boyce, Kevin

AU - Brenneman, Laura

AU - Brown, Greg

AU - Bulbul, Esra

AU - Cackett, Edward

AU - Canavan, Edgar

AU - Chernyakova, Maria

AU - Chiao, Meng

AU - Coppi, Paolo

AU - Costantini, Elisa

AU - De Plaa, Jelle

AU - Den Herder, Jan Willem

AU - DiPirro, Michael

AU - Done, Chris

AU - Dotani, Tadayasu

AU - Doty, John

AU - Ebisawa, Ken

AU - Eckart, Megan

AU - Enoto, Teruaki

AU - Ezoe, Yuichiro

AU - Fabian, Andrew

AU - Ferrigno, Carlo

AU - Foster, Adam

AU - Fujimoto, Ryuichi

AU - Fukazawa, Yasushi

AU - Furuzawa, Akihiro

AU - Galeazzi, Massimiliano

AU - Gallo, Luigi

AU - Gandhi, Poshak

AU - Gilmore, Kirk

AU - Giustini, Margherita

AU - Goldwurm, Andrea

AU - Gu, Liyi

AU - Guainazzi, Matteo

AU - Haas, Daniel

AU - Haba, Yoshito

AU - Hagino, Kouichi

AU - Hamaguchi, Kenji

AU - Harayama, Atsushi

AU - Harrus, Ilana

AU - Hatsukade, Isamu

AU - Hayashi, Takayuki

AU - Hayashi, Katsuhiro

AU - Hayashida, Kiyoshi

AU - Hiraga, Junko

AU - Hirose, Kazuyuki

AU - Hornschemeier, Ann

AU - Hoshino, Akio

AU - Hughes, John

AU - Ichinohe, Yuto

AU - Iizuka, Ryo

AU - Inoue, Yoshiyuki

AU - Inoue, Hajime

AU - Ishibashi, Kazunori

AU - Ishida, Manabu

AU - Ishikawa, Kumi

AU - Ishimura, Kosei

AU - Ishisaki, Yoshitaka

AU - Itoh, Masayuki

AU - Iwata, Naoko

AU - Iyomoto, Naoko

AU - Jewell, Chris

AU - Kaastra, Jelle

AU - Kallman, Timothy

AU - Kamae, Tuneyoshi

AU - Kara, Erin

AU - Kataoka, Jun

AU - Katsuda, Satoru

AU - Katsuta, Junichiro

AU - Kawaharada, Madoka

AU - Kawai, Nobuyuki

AU - Kawano, Taro

AU - Kawasaki, Shigeo

AU - Khangulyan, Dmitry

AU - Kilbourne, Caroline

AU - Kimball, Mark

AU - King, Ashley

AU - Kitaguchi, Takao

AU - Kitamoto, Shunji

AU - Kitayama, Tetsu

AU - Kohmura, Takayoshi

AU - Kosaka, Tatsuro

AU - Koujelev, Alex

AU - Koyama, Katsuji

AU - Koyama, Shu

AU - Kretschmar, Peter

AU - Krimm, Hans

AU - Kubota, Aya

AU - Kunieda, Hideyo

AU - Laurent, Philippe

AU - Lebrun, François

AU - Lee, Shiu Hang

AU - Leutenegger, Maurice

AU - Limousin, Olivier

AU - Loewenstein, Michael

AU - Long, Knox

AU - Lumb, David

AU - Madejski, Grzegorz

AU - Maeda, Yoshitomo

AU - Maier, Daniel

AU - Makishima, Kazuo

AU - Markevitch, Maxim

AU - Masters, Candace

AU - Matsumoto, Hironori

AU - Matsushita, Kyoko

AU - McCammon, Dan

AU - Mcguinness, Daniel

AU - McNamara, Brian

AU - Mehdipour, Missagh

AU - Miko, Joseph

AU - Miller, Jon

AU - Miller, Eric

AU - Mineshige, Shin

AU - Minesugi, Kenji

AU - Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki

AU - Miyazawa, Takuya

AU - Mizuno, Tsunefumi

AU - Mori, Koji

AU - Mori, Hideyuki

AU - Moroso, Franco

AU - Moseley, Harvey

AU - Muench, Theodore

AU - Mukai, Koji

AU - Murakami, Hiroshi

AU - Murakami, Toshio

AU - Mushotzky, Richard

AU - Nagano, Housei

AU - Nagino, Ryo

AU - Nakagawa, Takao

AU - Nakajima, Hiroshi

AU - Nakamori, Takeshi

AU - Nakano, Toshio

AU - Nakashima, Shinya

AU - Nakazawa, Kazuhiro

AU - Namba, Yoshiharu

AU - Natsukari, Chikara

AU - Nishioka, Yusuke

AU - Nobukawa, Masayoshi

AU - Nobukawa, Kumiko

AU - Noda, Hirofumi

AU - Nomachi, Masaharu

AU - O'Dell, Steve

AU - Odaka, Hirokazu

AU - Ogawa, Hiroyuki

AU - Ogawa, Mina

AU - Ogi, Keiji

AU - Ohno, Masanori

AU - Ohta, Masayuki

AU - Okajima, Takashi

AU - Okamoto, Atsushi

AU - Okazaki, Tsuyoshi

AU - Ota, Naomi

AU - Ozaki, Masanobu

AU - Paerels, Frederik

AU - Paltani, Stéphane

AU - Parmar, Arvind

AU - Petre, Robert

AU - Pinto, Ciro

AU - Pohl, Martin

AU - Pontius, James

AU - Porter, F. Scott

AU - Pottschmidt, Katja

AU - Ramsey, Brian

AU - Reynolds, Christopher

AU - Russell, Helen

AU - Safi-Harb, Samar

AU - Saito, Shinya

AU - Sakai, Shin Ichiro

AU - Sakai, Kazuhiro

AU - Sameshima, Hiroaki

AU - Sasaki, Toru

AU - Sato, Goro

AU - Sato, Yoichi

AU - Sato, Kosuke

AU - Sato, Rie

AU - Sawada, Makoto

AU - Schartel, Norbert

AU - Serlemitsos, Peter

AU - Seta, Hiromi

AU - Shibano, Yasuko

AU - Shida, Maki

AU - Shidatsu, Megumi

AU - Shimada, Takanobu

AU - Shinozaki, Keisuke

AU - Shirron, Peter

AU - Simionescu, Aurora

AU - Simmons, Cynthia

AU - Smith, Randall

AU - Sneiderman, Gary

AU - Soong, Yang

AU - Stawarz, Łukasz

AU - Sugawara, Yasuharu

AU - Sugita, Hiroyuki

AU - Sugita, Satoshi

AU - Szymkowiak, Andrew

AU - Tajima, Hiroyasu

AU - Takahashi, Hiromitsu

AU - Takeda, Shin'ichiro

AU - Takei, Yoh

AU - Tamagawa, Toru

AU - Tamura, Takayuki

AU - Tamura, Keisuke

AU - Tanaka, Takaaki

AU - Tanaka, Yasuo

AU - Tanaka, Yasuyuki

AU - Tashiro, Makoto

AU - Tawara, Yuzuru

AU - Terada, Yukikatsu

AU - Terashima, Yuichi

AU - Tombesi, Francesco

AU - Tomida, Hiroshi

AU - Tsuboi, Yohko

AU - Tsujimoto, Masahiro

AU - Tsunemi, Hiroshi

AU - Tsuru, Takeshi

AU - Uchida, Hiroyuki

AU - Uchiyama, Yasunobu

AU - Uchiyama, Hideki

AU - Ueda, Yoshihiro

AU - Ueda, Shutaro

AU - Ueno, Shiro

AU - Uno, Shin'ichiro

AU - Urry, Meg

AU - Ursino, Eugenio

AU - De Vries, Cor

AU - Wada, Atsushi

AU - Watanabe, Shin

AU - Watanabe, Tomomi

AU - Werner, Norbert

AU - Wik, Daniel

AU - Wilkins, Dan

AU - Williams, Brian

AU - Yamada, Takahiro

AU - Yamada, Shinya

AU - Yamaguchi, Hiroya

AU - Yamaoka, Kazutaka

AU - Yamasaki, Noriko

AU - Yamauchi, Makoto

AU - Yamauchi, Shigeo

AU - Yaqoob, Tahir

AU - Yatsu, Yoichi

AU - Yonetoku, Daisuke

AU - Yoshida, Atsumasa

AU - Yuasa, Takayuki

AU - Zhuravleva, Irina

AU - Zoghbi, Abderahmen

N1 - Funding Information: We acknowledge all the JAXA members who have contributed to the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) project. All U.S. members gratefully acknowledge support through the NASA Science Mission Directorate. Stanford and SLAC members acknowledge support via DoE contract to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory DE-AC3- 76SF00515 and NASA grant NNX15AM19G. Part of this work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. DoE by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344 and also supported by NASA grants to LLNL. Support from the European Space Agency is gratefully acknowledged. French members acknowledge support from CNES, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales. SRON is supported by NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Swiss team acknowledges support of the Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI and ESA's PRODEX programme. The Canadian Space Agency is acknowledged for the support of Canadian members. We acknowledge support from JSPS/MEXT KAKENHI grant numbers 15H02070, 15K05107, 23340071, 26109506, 24103002, 25400236, 25800119, 25400237, 25287042, 24540229, 25105516, 23540280, 25400235, 25247028, 26800095, 25400231, 25247028, 26220703, 24105007, 23340055, 15H00773, 23000004 15H02090, 15K17610, 15H05438, 15H00785, and 24540232. H. Akamatsu acknowledges support of NWO via Veni grant. M. Axelsson acknowledges JSPS International Research Fellowship. C. Done acknowledges STFC funding under grant ST/L00075X/1. P. Gandhi acknowledges JAXA International Top Young Fellowship and UK Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC) grant ST/J003697/2. H. Russell acknowledges support from ERC Advanced Grant Feedback 340442. We thank contributions by many companies, including in particular, NEC, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Japan Aviation Electronics Industry. We thank the support from the JSPS Core-to-Core Program. Publisher Copyright: © 2016 SPIE.

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft X-rays to gamma-rays. After a successful launch on 2016 February 17, the spacecraft lost its function on 2016 March 26, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the on-board instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month.

AB - The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft X-rays to gamma-rays. After a successful launch on 2016 February 17, the spacecraft lost its function on 2016 March 26, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the on-board instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month.

KW - Gamma-ray

KW - Gamma-ray Astronomy

KW - Hard X-ray

KW - X-ray

KW - X-ray Astronomy

KW - microcalorimeter

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U2 - 10.1117/12.2232379

DO - 10.1117/12.2232379

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85003550769

T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

BT - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016

A2 - Bautz, Marshall

A2 - Takahashi, Tadayuki

A2 - den Herder, Jan-Willem A.

PB - SPIE

T2 - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray

Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 1 July 2016

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The ASTRO-H (Hitomi) X-ray astronomy satellite

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