The X-Ray Vision Workshop, held October 6-8, 2015, at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC, USA.
Meeting Abstract: The main purpose of the workshop is to discuss science topics relevant to an “X-ray Surveyor” mission. X-ray Surveyor is one of the large astrophysical mission concepts which may be studied by NASA in preparation for the 2020 U.S. Decadal Survey. The goal is for the observatory to have excellent (at least Chandra-like) angular resolution, while providing a factor of 30-100 higher throughput and a significantly larger field of view for sub-arcsec imaging. A suite of next-generation science instruments could include a high definition X-ray imager, a microcalorimeter with 1 arcsec pixels and high-efficiency gratings for R=5000 spectroscopy in the soft X-ray band. With these capabilities, the X-ray Surveyor will be able to detect and characterize extremely faint objects, as well as study physical processes in a very wide range of astrophysical settings.
X-Ray Vision Workshop: Probing the Universe in Depth and Detail with the X-Ray Surveyor, held October 6-8, 2015, at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC, USA.
Meeting Abstract: The main purpose of the workshop is to discuss science topics relevant to an “X-ray Surveyor” mission. X-ray Surveyor is one of the large astrophysical mission concepts which may be studied by NASA in preparation for the 2020 U.S. Decadal Survey. The goal is for the observatory to have excellent (at least Chandra-like) angular resolution, while providing a factor of 30-100 higher throughput and a significantly larger field of view for sub-arcsec imaging. A suite of next-generation science instruments could include a high definition X-ray imager, a microcalorimeter with 1 arcsec pixels and high-efficiency gratings for R=5000 spectroscopy in the soft X-ray band. With these capabilities, the X-ray Surveyor will be able to detect and characterize extremely faint objects, as well as study physical processes in a very wide range of astrophysical settings.
Science Organizing Committee
- Steve Allen, Stanford University
- Niel Brandt, Pennsylvania State University
- Dave Burrows, Pennsylvania State University
- Giuseppina Fabbiano, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Eric Feigelson, Pennsylvania State University
- Jessica Gaskin, Marshall Space Flight Center
- Sebastian Heinz, University of Wisconsin‑Madison
- Christine Jones, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Chryssa Kouveliotou, George Washington University
- Andrey Kravtsov, University of Chicago
- Maxim Markevitch, Goddard Space Flight Center
- Richard Mushotzky, The University of Maryland
- Priya Natarajan, Yale University
- Mike Nowak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Rachel Osten, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Feryal Ozel, University of Arizona
- Roger Romani, Stanford University
- Harvey Tananbaum, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Leisa Townsley, Pennsylvania State University
- Alexey Vikhlinin, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Martin Weisskopf, Marshall Space Flight Center
Organizing Committee
- Alexey Vikhlinin, SAO, Workshop Co-host
- Jessica Gaskin, NASA, Workshop Co-host
- Bill Forman, SAO, Associate Director
- Harvey Tananbaum, SAO, Visionarios Summus
- Michael Trischitta, SAO, Resource Manager
- Connie Andrews, MSFC, Resource Analyst
- Jenine Humber, SAO Event Coordinator
- David Hood, NASA, Event Support