Speaker
Benjamin Ricketts
(SRON)
Description
NEBULA-Xplorer is a new mission concept led by SRON that was approved to advance to the next stage in the recent exploratory mini-Fast ESA call. NEBULA-Xplorer is a small satellite mission that focuses on performing long continuous monitoring of X-ray binaries with modern silicon drift detectors, similar to those of the NICER instrument on the ISS. During mission development, we are emphasizing co-ordination with other wavelengths during mission development to facilitate multi-wavelength observation campaigns that can understand X-ray binaries and the jets they produce on all length and time scales. In this talk, I will talk about the main science goals of the mission as well as the mission specifications.
Author
Benjamin Ricketts
(SRON)