The Arcus Probe Mission
The Arcus Probe mission addresses a wide range of Astro2020 Decadal and NASA Science Mission Directorate Priority science areas, and is designed to explore astrophysical feedback across all mass scales. Arcus' three baseline science goals include: (i) Characterizing the drivers of accretion-powered feedback in supermassive black holes, (ii) Quantifying how feedback at all scales drives galaxy evolution and large-scale structure, including the tenuous cosmic web, and (iii) Analyzing stellar feedback from exoplanetary to galactic scales, including its effects on exoplanet environments targeted by current and future NASA missions. These science goals, along with a robust General Observer program, will be achieved using a mission that provides a high-sensitivity soft (10-60Å) X-ray spectrometer (XRS), working simultaneously with a co-aligned UV spectrometer (UVS; 970-1580Å). Arcus enables compelling baseline science and provides the broader astronomy community a revolutionary tool to characterize the full ionization range of warm and hot plasmas - including hydrogen, helium, and all abundant metals - in the Universe, from the halos of galaxies and clusters to the coronae of stars.
Authors
- Leroy Sparr
- J. S. Kaastra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5540-2822)
- Dolon Bhattacharyya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1375-7101)
- David J. Wilson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9667-9449)
- A. Falcone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5068-7344)
- J. Wilms (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2065-5410)
- Luigi Gallo
- Herman L. Marshall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6492-1293)
- S. J. Wolk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0826-9261)
- Jay A. Bookbinder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-7220)
- Nicholas Nell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7131-7978)
- Eric D. Miller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3031-2326)
- Mark L. Schattenburg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6932-2612)
- J. M. Mïller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2869-7682)
- M. Mehdipour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4992-4664)
- Kevin France (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1002-3674)
- Joseph Bushman
- Jonathan W. Arenberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1096-5634)
- P. Temi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8341-342X)
- Lynne A. Valencic
- Todd M. Tripp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-640X)
- Michael A. Nowak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6923-1315)
- Adam Foster (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3462-8886)
- Laura Brenneman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2663-1954)
- Ralf K. Heilmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9980-5295)
- Jenna Samra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4498-8706)
- Randall K. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4284-4167)
- K. Nandra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7150-9192)
- Butler Hine
- Norbert S. Schulz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0842-7792)
- J. S. Sanders (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2189-4501)
- Joel N. Bregman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6276-9526)
- Randall L. McEntaffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3719-8212)
- Pamela M. Marcum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0963-4806)
- Daryl Haggard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6803-2138)
- Brian Fleming
- Esra Bülbül (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7619-5399)
- Casey T. DeRoo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9184-4561)
- V. Burwitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5330-5869)
- Benjamin D. Donovan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0253-7851)
- A. Ptak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5655-1440)
- E. Costantini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8470-749X)
- David P. Huenemoerder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3860-6230)
- N. S. Brickhouse (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8704-4473)
- Catherine E. Grant (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4737-1373)
- Ehud Behar
- Marshall W. Bautz
- Igor Kreykenbohmn
- Frits Paerels
- Péter Friedrich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8140-6077)
- Hans Moritz Guenther
- Peter Cheimets
- Sarah Heine
- Katya Poppenhaeger
- Stephen Walker
- Sibasish Laha
Institutions
- Ames Research Center (US)
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Northrop Grumman (United States) (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (DE)
- Michigan United (US)
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (US)
- Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (US)
- Space Research Organisation Netherlands (NL)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-08-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3022452
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.33