Roadmap on cosmic EUV and X-ray spectroscopy
Published version
Repository URI
Repository DOI
Change log
Authors
Abstract
jats:titleAbstract</jats:title> jats:pCosmic 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.</jats:p>
Description
Keywords
Journal Title
Conference Name
Journal ISSN
1361-6455
Volume Title
Publisher
Publisher DOI
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/J00054X/1)
STFC (ST/T000481/1)