Roadmap on cosmic EUV and x-ray spectroscopy

Randall K Smith, Michael Hahn, John Raymond, Tim Kallman, Connor P Ballance, Vanessa Polito, Giulio Del Zanna, Liyi Gu, Natalie Hell, Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez, Renata Cumbee, Elisa Constantini, Lia Corrales

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Abstract

Cosmic EUV/X-ray spectroscopists, including both solar and astrophysical analysts, have a wide range of high-resolution and high-sensitivity tools in use and a number of new facilities in development for launch. As this bandpass requires placing the spectrometer beyond the Earth's atmosphere, each mission represents a major investment by a national space agency such as NASA, ESA, or JAXA, and more typically a collaboration between two or three. In general justifying new mission requires an improvement in capabilities of at least an order of magnitude, but the sensitivity of these existing missions are already taxing existing atomic data quantity and accuracy. This roadmap reviews the existing missions, showing how in a number of areas atomic data limits the science that can be performed. The missions that will be launched in the coming Decade will without doubt require both more and improved measurements of wavelengths and rates, along with theoretical calculations of collisional and radiative cross sections for a wide range of processes
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages22
JournalJournal of Physics B: Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
Issue numberhttps://doi.org/10.1088/1361- 6455/ab69aa
Early online date09 Jan 2020
DOIs
Publication statusEarly online date - 09 Jan 2020

Keywords

  • Roadmap , astrophysics , EUV, X-Ray

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