High-resolution x-ray imaging spectrometer (HREXI) SmallSat Pathfinder (HSP) (Conference Presentation)

Jonathan Grindlay; Branden E. Allen; Jaesub E. Hong; Daniel E. Violette; Martin E. Elvis; Scott Barthelmy; John Tomsick

doi:10.1117/12.2529855

9 September 2019 High-resolution x-ray imaging spectrometer (HREXI) SmallSat Pathfinder (HSP) (Conference Presentation)

Jonathan Grindlay, Branden E. Allen, Jaesub E. Hong, Daniel E. Violette, Martin E. Elvis, Scott Barthelmy, John Tomsick

Proceedings Volume 11118, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI; 111180X (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2529855
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

HSP was selected for the NASA Astrophysics Science SmallSat Study (AS3) program as a SmallSat mission concept that will be proposed for a 1 – 2 year science mission to demonstrate performance and cost goals to enable a future Explorer-class SmallSat Constellation mission for the first simultaneous full-sky imager with 2X finer resolution. HSP is a 36 x 36deg (FWHM) coded aperture telescope with 16 x 16 CdZnTe detectors, each 20 x 20 x 3mm with 32 x 32 0.6mm pixels and ~1.5keV energy resolution. The 1024 cm^2 HSP imaging detector array views the sky through the Tungsten coded aperture mask (0.7 mm pixels) at 68cm, providing 4’ imaging and <30” source positions over the 3 – 200 keV band. This is mounted on a Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) SmallSat (S5) bus, with ~10arcsec pointing and star camera aspect, extends the capabilities of Swift/BAT and INTEGRAL/IBIS. HSP will promptly localize long and short GRBs and outbursts of X-ray transients: from nearby M dwarf flares, to BH-LMXB outbursts, Blazar flares and Jetted TDEs. HSP will daily-monitor the Galactic Bulge and adjacent Galactic plane and > 2 nearby OB association regions for 1 yr, providing high cadence light curves of black hole X-ray binaries (with low and high mass companions) in the Galaxy. HSP matches the on-axis sensitivity of Swift/BAT in the 15 – 200 keV band with 5X finer spatial resolution, and the simultaneous 3 – 15 keV imaging and spectra surpass MAXI with 15X finer spatial resolution, all within an ESPA class mission in LEO at ~500-600 km and <~30 deg inclination.

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Jonathan Grindlay, Branden E. Allen, Jaesub E. Hong, Daniel E. Violette, Martin E. Elvis, Scott Barthelmy, and John Tomsick "High-resolution x-ray imaging spectrometer (HREXI) SmallSat Pathfinder (HSP) (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11118, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI, 111180X (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2529855

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