http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11175
FORCE is a 1.2 tonnes small mission dedicated for wide-band fine-imaging x-ray observation. It covers from 1 to 80 keV with a good angular resolution of $15″$ half-power-diameter. It is proposed to be launched around mid-2020s and designed to reach a limiting sensitivity as good as $F_X (10-40~{\rm keV}) = 3 \times 10^{-15}$~erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ keV$^{-1}$ within 1~Ms. This number is one order of magnitude better than current best one. With its high-sensitivity wide-band coverage, FORCE will probe the new science field of “missing BHs”, searching for families of black holes of which populations and evolutions are not well known. Other point-source and diffuse-source sciences are also considered. FORCE will also provide the “hard x-ray coverage” to forthcoming large soft x-ray observatories.
K. Nakazawa, K. Mori, T. Tsuru, et. al.
Tue, 31 Jul 18
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Comments: On SPIE Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018:Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. 14 Pages, and 4 Figures
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