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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2024-2025 Colloquium Series Presents:
DESCRIPTION:\"XRISM – A New Window into the X-ray Universe\"\n\nAt 23:42 UTC on September 6th\, 2023\, the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) lifted off from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan\, ushering in a new era of high-energy astrophysics. XRISM\, an international JAXA/NASA collaboration including participation from ESA\, is an advanced X-ray observatory capable of carrying out a science program that will address some of the most important questions in astrophysics in the 2020s. XRISM is essentially a rebuild of the Hitomi (Astro-H) spacecraft that was lost due to an operational mishap early in the mission in 2016. Resolve\, the primary instrument on XRISM\, is a high-resolution\, non-dispersive X-ray spectrometer operating between 0.3-12 keV\, providing high-resolution (~5 eV) spectroscopic capabilities in this critical energy band with a response peaking around the ubiquitous 6.4 keV Fe K-alpha line. A wide-field imager\, Xtend\, will offer simultaneous coverage over nearly a 40’ square field of view\, with ~1’ spatial resolution. XRISM will study all manner of astrophysical objects\, including galaxies and clusters\, AGN\, X-ray binaries\, supernova remnants\, transient phenomena\, stars\, and the interstellar medium. In this talk\, I will highlight some of the scientific topics that XRISM will address\, in addition to providing a general status update on the mission. I will discuss the synergies between high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy and observations at other wavelengths\, including optical\, radio\, and IR\, and summarize the General Observer program\, where funding is available for observers based at U.S. institutions.
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CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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