Paper 13093-92
Paper 13093-92
Wide-band x-ray observatory for the time domain astronomy era: CHRONOS
21 June 2024 • 11:10 - 11:30 Japan Standard Time | Room G414/415, North - 4F
Abstract
Chronos is a X-ray observatory concept capable of “hour-level” follow up observations of transient alerts in 2030s’ multi-messenger astronomy, with 0.3–40+ keV wide X-ray band-width and 250–300 nm ultra-violet (UV) coverage. The mission has a good hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy with > 9′ field of view, the soft X-ray imager with > 30′ field of view, and the UV imager with > 7° field of view. Aiming at launch in mid-2030s, the mission is designed to provide wide-band spectroscopy of time dependent high-energy phenomena. The low background and large effective area in the hard X-ray band also make it good at observing diffuse hard X-ray emissions, such as many TeV sources which will be newly found in 2030s.
Presenter
Kazuhiro Nakazawa
Nagoya Univ. (Japan)
Associate Prof. K. Nakazawa is a researcher working on X-ray, hard X-ray and MeV gamma-ray astronomy. He worked on developing the hard X-ray detector onboard the Suzaku satellite and lead the development of the Hard X-ray Imager of the Hitomi satellites. In the latter case, he also was a member of the Soft Gamma-ray Detector. He also a was member of the Swift/BAT team and now the COSI team member.