@inproceedings{ad62b912183f4e6a8aacb268f8a3edc9,
title = "X-ray optics for WHIMex, the warm hot intergalactic medium explorer",
abstract = "The x-ray astronomy community has never flown a celestial source spectrograph that can resolve natural line widths in absorption the way the ultraviolet community did with OAO-3 Copernicus back in 1972. Yet there is important science to be mined there, and right now, the large flagship missions like the International X-ray Observatory are not progressing toward launch. WHIMEx is an Explorer concept proposed earlier this year to open up that science regime in the next few years. The concept features a modified off-plane grating spectrograph design that will support high resolution (λ/δλ ∼ 4000) in the soft x-ray band with a high packing density that will enable a modest cost space mission. We discuss the design and capabilities for the WHIMEx mission. Its prime science goal is detecting high temperature oxygen in the Intergalactic Medium, but it has a broad range of science potential cutting across all of x-ray astronomy and should give us a new window on the Universe.",
author = "W. Cash and R. McEntaffer and W. Zhang and S. Casement and C. Lillie and M. Schattenburg and M. Bautz and A. Holland and H. Tsunemi and S. O'Dell",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1117/12.895014",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819487575",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy V",
note = "Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy V ; Conference date: 23-08-2011 Through 25-08-2011",
}