Authors
Fiona A Harrison, William W Craig, Finn E Christensen, Charles J Hailey, William W Zhang, Steven E Boggs, Daniel Stern, W Rick Cook, Karl Forster, Paolo Giommi, Brian W Grefenstette, Yunjin Kim, Takao Kitaguchi, Jason E Koglin, Kristin K Madsen, Peter H Mao, Hiromasa Miyasaka, Kaya Mori, Matteo Perri, Michael J Pivovaroff, Simonetta Puccetti, Vikram R Rana, Niels J Westergaard, Jason Willis, Andreas Zoglauer, Hongjun An, Matteo Bachetti, Nicolas M Barrière, Eric C Bellm, Varun Bhalerao, Nicolai F Brejnholt, Felix Fuerst, Carl C Liebe, Craig B Markwardt, Melania Nynka, Julia K Vogel, Dominic J Walton, Daniel R Wik, David M Alexander, Lynn R Cominsky, Ann E Hornschemeier, Allan Hornstrup, Victoria M Kaspi, Greg M Madejski, Giorgio Matt, Silvano Molendi, David M Smith, John A Tomsick, Marco Ajello, David R Ballantyne, Mislav Baloković, Didier Barret, Franz E Bauer, Roger D Blandford, W Niel Brandt, Laura W Brenneman, James Chiang, Deepto Chakrabarty, Jerome Chenevez, Andrea Comastri, Francois Dufour, Martin Elvis, Andrew C Fabian, Duncan Farrah, Chris L Fryer, Eric V Gotthelf, Jonathan E Grindlay, David J Helfand, Roman Krivonos, David L Meier, Jon M Miller, Lorenzo Natalucci, Patrick Ogle, Eran O Ofek, Andrew Ptak, Stephen P Reynolds, Jane R Rigby, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Stephen E Thorsett, Ezequiel Treister, C Megan Urry
Publication date
2013/5/30
Journal
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume
770
Issue
2
Pages
103
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Description
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, launched on 2012 June 13, is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit. NuSTAR operates in the band from 3 to 79 keV, extending the sensitivity of focusing far beyond the∼ 10 keV high-energy cutoff achieved by all previous X-ray satellites. The inherently low background associated with concentrating the X-ray light enables NuSTAR to probe the hard X-ray sky with a more than 100-fold improvement in sensitivity over the collimated or coded mask instruments that have operated in this bandpass. Using its unprecedented combination of sensitivity and spatial and spectral resolution, NuSTAR will pursue five primary scientific objectives:(1) probe obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity out to the peak epoch of galaxy assembly in the universe (at z≲ 2) by surveying selected regions of the sky;(2) study the population of hard X-ray …
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