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X-Ray Vision Workshop

Probing the Universe in Depth and Detail with the X-Ray Surveyor

October 6-8, 2015 Washington DC

INVITED SPEAKERS

  • Paul Hertz (keynote)
    NASA Headquarters
  • Joel Bregman
    University of Michigan
  • Eugene Churazov
    Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Garching
  • Martin Elvis
    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Andrey Kravtsov
    University of Chicago
  • Andrew MacFadyen
    New York University
  • Brian McNamara
    University of Waterloo
  • Mark Morris
    University of California, Los Angeles
  • Priyamvada Natarajan
    Yale University
  • Rachel Osten
    Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Feryal Ozel
    University of Arizona
  • Katja Poppenhaeger
    Harvard CFA
  • Chris Reynolds
    The University of Maryland
  • Patrick Slane
    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Tiziana DiMatteo
    Carnegie Mellon University
  • Leisa Townsley
    Pennsylvania State University

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.