August 21, 2024

The wide-field x-ray monitor (WFXM) on the HiZ-GUNDAM mission

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TST. SakamotoAoyama Gakuin University DYDaisuke YonetokuKanazawa University ADAkihiro DoiThe Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

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Mission report demonstrates a wide-field x-ray monitor design for the HiZ-GUNDAM satellite, highlighting fast multi-messenger identification of high-redshift transient sources.

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The HiZ-GUNDAM mission baseline integrates a wide-field x-ray monitor with a near-infrared telescope to rapidly detect and identify soft x-ray band transient cosmic sources.
The instrument baseline employs 16 modules covering 0.7 sr of sky, utilizing lobster-eye optics alongside pnccd detector arrays to pinpoint high-redshift transient events.
Autonomous spacecraft slew capability paired with prompt near-infrared telescope pointing enables multi-messenger astronomy, accelerating follow-up of fast cosmic transients.

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Sakamoto et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e5b746b6db64358754fb74 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018771

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Mission report demonstrates a wide-field x-ray monitor design for the HiZ-GUNDAM satellite, highlighting fast multi-messenger identification of high-redshift transient sources.

The wide-field x-ray monitor (WFXM) on the HiZ-GUNDAM mission

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