Roadmap on cosmic EUV and x-ray spectroscopy

Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 53, pp. 092001

Abstract

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.

Authors 13

1. Randall K. Smith

   Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

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   Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America

2. Michael Hahn

   Columbia University

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   Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, NY 10027, United States of America

3. JOHN C. RAYMOND

   Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

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   Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America

4. T. R. Kallman

   Goddard Space Flight Center

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   NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America

5. C P Ballance

   Queen's University Belfast

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   CTAMOP, Old Physics Building, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NNN, United Kingdom

   CTAMOP, Old Physics Building, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NNN, United Kingdom

6. Vanessa Polito

   Lockheed Martin (United States) · Bay Area Environmental Research Institute · Lockheed (United States)

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   Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, 3176 Porter Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94304, United States of America

7. G. Del Zanna

   University of Cambridge

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   Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 8WA, United Kingdom

8. Liyi Gu

   RIKEN

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   High Energy Astrophysics Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

9. Natalie Hell

   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, United States of America

10. Renata Cumbee

    Goddard Space Flight Center

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    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States of America

11. Gabriele L. Betancourt-Martinez

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie

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    CNRS, F-75016 Paris, France

    The Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology, F-31400 Toulouse, France

12. E. Costantini Aachen SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research

    Space Research Organisation Netherlands

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    SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584CA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

13. Lía Corrales

    University of Michigan

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    Astronomy Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48014, United States of America