Abstract
The Arcus Probe mission addresses a wide range of Astro2020 Decadal and NASA Science Mission Directorate Priority science areas, and is designed to explore astrophysical feedback across all mass scales. Arcus' three baseline science goals include: (i) Characterizing the drivers of accretion-powered feedback in supermassive black holes, (ii) Quantifying how feedback at all scales drives galaxy evolution and large-scale structure, including the tenuous cosmic web, and (iii) Analyzing stellar feedback from exoplanetary to galactic scales, including its effects on exoplanet environments targeted by current and future NASA missions. These science goals, along with a robust General Observer program, will be achieved using a mission that provides a high-sensitivity soft (10-60Å) X-ray spectrometer (XRS), working simultaneously with a co-aligned UV spectrometer (UVS; 970-1580Å). Arcus enables compelling baseline science and provides the broader astronomy community a revolutionary tool to characterize the full ionization range of warm and hot plasmas - including hydrogen, helium, and all abundant metals - in the Universe, from the halos of galaxies and clusters to the coronae of stars.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024 |
Subtitle of host publication | Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
Editors | Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781510675094 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2024 |
Event | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 16 Jun 2024 → 21 Jun 2024 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
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Volume | 13093 |
Conference
Conference | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
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Country/Territory | Japan |
City | Yokohama |
Period | 16/06/24 → 21/06/24 |
Keywords
- Far-UV
- Probe mission
- UV: Spectroscopy
- X-ray gratings
- X-rays: Spectroscopy
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering