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The Lynx Mission: Revealing the Invisible Universe

Jessica A. Gaskin, Douglas A. Swartz

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LEAPS IN CAPABILITY• High sensitivity in the soft X-ray band.First Accretion Light science requires mirror effective area >~ 2 square meters at E < 2 keV.• High angular resolution (sub-arcsec) is key for nearly all Lynx science.Desire 0.5 arcsec or better resolution.• Detectors should provide fine imaging, low internal background, and high resolution, spatially resolved spectroscopy.• Very high spectral resolution (R >~ 5000) in the soft band.

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LEAPS IN CAPABILITY• High sensitivity in the soft X-ray band.First Accretion Light science requires mirror effective area >~ 2 square meters at E < 2 keV.• High angular resolution (sub-arcsec) is key for nearly all Lynx science.Desire 0.5 arcsec or better resolution.• Detectors should provide fine imaging, low internal background, and high resolution, spatially resolved spectroscopy.• Very high spectral resolution (R >~ 5000) in the soft band.

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LEAPS IN CAPABILITY• High sensitivity in the soft X-ray band.First Accretion Light science requires mirror effective area >~ 2 square meters at E < 2 keV.• High angular resolution (sub-arcsec) is key for nearly all Lynx science.Desire 0.5 arcsec or better resolution.• Detectors should provide fine imaging, low internal background, and high resolution, spatially resolved spectroscopy.• Very high spectral resolution (R >~ 5000) in the soft band.

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