eROSITA on SRG
Jan, 201010 pages
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- Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng. 7732 (2010) 77320U
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- Published: Jul 29, 2010
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- 1001.2502 [astro-ph.CO]
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Abstract: (International Society for Optics and Photonics)
eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) is the core instrument on the Russian Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission which is scheduled for launch in late 2012. eROSITA is fully approved and funded by the German Space Agency DLR and the Max-Planck-Society. The instrument development is in phase C/D since fall 2009. The design driving science is the detection 100.000 Clusters of Galaxies up to redshift z ~1.3 in order to study the large scale structure in the Universe and test cosmological models, especially Dark Energy. This will be accomplished by an all-sky survey lasting for four years plus a phase of pointed observations. eROSITA consists of seven Wolter-I telescope modules, each equipped with 54 Wolter-I shells having an outer diameter of 360 mm. This would provide an effective area of ~1500 cm2 at 1.5 keV and an on axis PSF HEW of 15 arcsec resulting in an effective angular resolution of 28 - 30 arcsec, averaged over the field of view. In the focus of each mirror module, a fast frame-store pn-CCD provides a field of view of 1° in diameter.Note:
- 6 Pages, 3 Figure, Proceedings of the conference "X-ray Astronomy 2009", Bologna, September 2009
- X-ray telescopes
- All-sky survey
- Dark Energy
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