In-orbit operation of the soft x-ray spectrometer onboard the Hitomi satellite
Tsujimoto, Masahiro; Okajima, Takashi; Eckart, Megan E.; Hoshino, Akio; Kelley, Richard L.; Kilbourne, Caroline A.; Leutenegger, Maurice A.; Sato, Kosuke; Tashiro, Makoto S.; Ezoe, Yuichiro; Ishikawa, Kumi; Mitsuda, Kazuhisa; Fujimoto, Ryuichi; Yamasaki, Noriko Y.; Chiao, Meng P.; de Vries, Cor P.; den Herder, Jan-Willem; Ishisaki, Yoshitaka; Koyama, Shu; Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki; Noda, Hirofumi; Sawada, Makoto; Seta, Hiromi; Takei, Yoh; Tamagawa, Toru; Yamada, Shinya; Yatsu, Yoichi; DiPirro, Michael J.; Watanabe, Tomomi; Sneiderman, Gary A.; Boyce, Kevin R.; Okamoto, Atsushi; Shirron, Peter J.; Bialas, Thomas G.; Masters, Candace M.; Porter, Frederic S.; Sato, Yohichi; Savinell, Joseph C.
Japan, United States, Netherlands
Abstract
We summarize all of the in-orbit operations of the soft x-ray spectrometer (SXS) onboard the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) satellite. The satellite was launched on February 17, 2016, and the communication with the satellite ceased on March 26, 2016. The SXS was still in the commissioning phase, in which the set-ups were progressively changed. This paper is intended to serve as a concise reference of the events in orbit in order to properly interpret the SXS data taken during its short lifetime and as a test case for planning the in-orbit operation for future microcalorimeter missions.