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WHIMEX Doing High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy Right Webster Cash, Chuck Lillie and the WHIMEx Team. With Special Thanks to Northrop Grumman for Development and Proposal Support. The WHIMEx Team Representative of the Community. W. Cash Colorado N . Arav Virginia Tech - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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WHIMEXDoing High Resolution
X-ray Spectroscopy Right
Webster Cash, Chuck Lillieand the WHIMEx Team
With Special Thanks toNorthrop Grumman forDevelopment and ProposalSupport
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The WHIMEx TeamRepresentative of the Community
W. Cash Colorado
N. Arav Virginia Tech
S. Barber Open U
M. Bautz MIT
J. Bregman Michigan
N. Brickhouse CFA
M. Elvis CFA
R. Heilman MIT
A. Holland Open U
A. Hornschemeier GSFC
D. Huenemoerder MIT
C. Lillie NGASR. McEntaffer IowaR. Mushotzky MarylandP. Nicastro CFAP. Oakley ColoradoS. O’Dell MSFCA. Ptak GSFCM. Schattenburg MITM. Shull ColoradoH. Tsunemi OsakaF. Walter Stony BrookL. Winter ColoradoS. Wolk SA/CfAW. Zhang GSFC
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Designed for the WHIM Problem
• The WHIM is the highest profile science that we can addressin an Explorer
• The hugely exciting science of AGN’s, stars etc comes free after WHIMproblem is solved.
• IXO Requirement was R~3000, A~1000cm2
(We fought for a decade to get IXO to raise R above 300)
• IXO is gone, and there’s nothing else on the high resolution horizon
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Origin of Concept• IXO Technology Studies and Older Suborbital Work
• Science from Decadal
• Will Zhang’s slumped glass Wolter optics (NUSTAR/IXO)
• MIT Flat Mirrors and Metrology
• Web Cash and Randy McEntaffer’s Off-plane Gratings
• CCD Arrays - Open U, Osaka U, MIT, GSFC
Reoptimized for an Explorer
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Reduced Complexity• A Single Wolter Mandrel• A Single Grating Master• 15” Quality• 7m Focal Length with Deployable Bench
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Payload
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Figure of Merit
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OVII and OVIII Diagnostic of WHIM
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Model WHIM Mass Distributions0.016
0.014
0.012
0.010
0.008
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Frac
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765Log T (K)
OVIdetection range
OVII
OVIII
GalacticSuperwinds
No GalacticSuperwinds
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Filament Column Densities
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Simulated WHIMEx Spectrum
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WHIMExAGN Simulations
COS
WHIMex
Chandra
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High Resolution is Essential to Measuring the Basic Parameters(Slide courtesy of Schindhelm and Arav)
Shape of line is crucial to separating continuum from saturated line.Without E/E > 3000, can miss energy outflow by factor of 100!
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16.7 16.8 16.9 17.0 17.1Wavelength (A)
Fe XVIIFe XVII
AR Lac binary; (=0.25, v = 230 km/s)
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Conclusions• WHIMEx is Astronomy for and by the community
It is the IXO XGS channel repackaged• Can be implemented at the low end of the cost scale under
consideration.• Important Core Science and Exploration
that Cannot be Addressed Other Ways• Wide Open Guest Observing• Can Be Built Now, But Needs Prototype Demonstration• Also Needs a Community Statement of Why It is Relevant
to the Decadal. There is much mischief between competingdisciplines