Spectrum-RG/eROSITA/Lobster astrophysical mission

M. Pavlinsky; G. Hasinger; A. Parmar; G. Fraser; E. Churazov; M. Gilfanov; R. Sunyaev; A. Vikhlinin; P. Predehl; L. Piro; V. Arefiev; A. Tkachenko; V. Pinchuk; D. Gorobets

doi:10.1117/12.669970

13 June 2006 Spectrum-RG/eROSITA/Lobster astrophysical mission

M. Pavlinsky, G. Hasinger, A. Parmar, G. Fraser, E. Churazov, M. Gilfanov, R. Sunyaev, A. Vikhlinin, P. Predehl, L. Piro, V. Arefiev, A. Tkachenko, V. Pinchuk, D. Gorobets

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Proceedings Volume 6266, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation II: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 62660O (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.669970
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

A medium size satellite will be launched in the 2010-2011 timeframe into a 600 km equatorial (less than or equal to 5 deg.) orbit from Kourou or into a less than or equal to 30 deg. orbit from Baikonur as a fallback option. The payload includes eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array, MPE, Germany) with 7 Wolter-type telescopes, the wide field X-ray monitor Lobster (LU, UK), the X-ray concentrator based on Kumakhov optics ART or coded-mask X-ray telescopes as a fallback (IKI, Russia) and GRB detector (Russian consortium). High particle background on high apogee orbits severely affects the capabilities of X-ray telescopes to study diffuse emission. For new baseline configuration of the SRG mission a low earth orbit was selected to circumvent this limitation. The mission will conduct the first all-sky survey with an imaging telescope in the 2-12 keV band to discover the hidden population of several hundred thousand obscured supermassive black holes and the first all-sky imaging X-ray time variability survey. In addition to the all-sky surveys it is foreseen to observe the extragalactic sky with high sensitivity to detect 50 to 100 thousand clusters of galaxies and thereafter to do follow-up pointed observations of selected sources, in order to investigate the nature of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. The new SRG mission would thus be a highly significant scientific and technological step beyond Chandra/XMM-Newton and would provide important and timely inputs for the next generation of giant X-ray observatories like XEUS/Con-X planned for the 2015-2025 horizon.

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M. Pavlinsky, G. Hasinger, A. Parmar, G. Fraser, E. Churazov, M. Gilfanov, R. Sunyaev, A. Vikhlinin, P. Predehl, L. Piro, V. Arefiev, A. Tkachenko, V. Pinchuk, and D. Gorobets "Spectrum-RG/eROSITA/Lobster astrophysical mission", Proc. SPIE 6266, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation II: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 62660O (13 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.669970

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