https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog daily 0.75 2020-04-15 https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog/industryreport monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1586979264085-DP8UKE01DRVE879EGMDA/cover.png News & Updates - Building the Eyes of a Lynx Read the Independent Industry Report on manufacturing the Lynx X-ray Mirror Assembly. https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog/legacy monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1568752104947-FXKEVIQU9MOFDM7LRKXA/Lynx_Legacy_Field.png News & Updates - The Lynx Legacy Field https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog/zhangaward monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1586979893211-FTZNWEVQACPYC92N4VCE/will_zhang.jpg News & Updates - Dr. William Zhang wins NASA Goddard Technology Award The 2019 Goddard IRAD Innovator of the Year William Zhang holds one of the X-ray mirror segments that he and his team manufactured from mono-crystalline silicon — a material never before configured for capturing high-energy X-ray photons. Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1586980064465-OCMRSV5EVIZ0RG8MV8IY/Lynx_X-ray_Observatory_Spacecraft_Banner.png News & Updates - Dr. William Zhang wins NASA Goddard Technology Award Illustration of the conceptual Lynx X-ray Observatory, a potential user of a new X-ray mirror developed by Goddard astrophysicist William Zhang. Credits: NASA and The Lynx Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1586980434060-AWZLO2K38H9POBZVR44M/team_4.jpg News & Updates - Dr. William Zhang wins NASA Goddard Technology Award IRAD Innovator of the Year William Zhang and his team succeeded in developing a new type of X-ray mirror. Team members include (from left to right): Michael Norman, Michal Hlinka, John Kearney, Kim Allgood-Puckett, Michael Biskach, James Mazzarella, William Zhang, Ryan McClelland, Raul Riveros, Ai Numata, and Peter Solly. Not pictured: Kai-Wing Chan and Timo Saha. Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1586980469914-1Z5QJF6CGDY11V3GG4UL/particle_beam.jpg News & Updates - Dr. William Zhang wins NASA Goddard Technology Award This particle beam polishes the surfaces of a new X-ray mirror made of silicon. Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1586981056681-XJ292RY1Y4Z5NGKD8PHO/cover.png News & Updates - Dr. William Zhang wins NASA Goddard Technology Award Read an independent report by Northrop Grumman and L3Harris on the feasibility of manufacturing the Lynx X-ray Mirror Assembly. https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog/roadmaps monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1573839796718-GTIHUN8HSA8983NL4B8O/technology_roadmaps_cover.png News & Updates - The Lynx Technology Roadmaps https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog/2019/9/13/jessica-gaskin-on-the-bright-future-with-lynx monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1568394444106-BQ0OAUSYQ85Q8CK32GZS/jessica_gaskin.jpg News & Updates - Podcast: The Future of Discovery with Lynx Dr. Jessica Gaskin, NASA Study Scientist for the Lynx Concept Study https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1568394491796-B0R9KAIA1EQ33WJCYOUT/martin_weisskopf.jpg News & Updates - Podcast: The Future of Discovery with Lynx Dr. Martin Weisskopf, Chandra X-ray Observatory Project Scientist https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog/2019/8/26/a-new-epoch-of-discovery monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1566822065708-DNOZO9RKRFB860R079TX/report_cover.png News & Updates - One Journey Ends. Another Begins. https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog/why-lynx monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526406835386-0CB7Q8FSNIEFJSF4GEL7/Lynx_Kitty_Backdrop.jpg News & Updates - Why a Lynx? An early Lynx mission branding concept from Illustrator David Miller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534339518797-JOQ9R1JMNC4KHM9TIIOT/lynxhistorical.jpg News & Updates - Why a Lynx? Galileo Galilei was a member of Italy's Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of the Lynx). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534340605221-WGZTOY0IC09DBTKJPKMH/Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Lynx_and_Telescopium_Herschilii.jpg News & Updates - Why a Lynx? Illustration from Urania's Mirror, a set of star charts engraved by Sydney Hall and published in 1824. Lynx was a constellation proposed in 1687 by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius, and consisted of 19 stars spanning the gulf between Ursa Major and Auriga. Hevelius named the constellation after a Lynx because it was so faint, and stated that only the "lynx-eyed" would be able to find it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534971595258-SM10L1O7TQBMGEN7GZSC/X_logo_wide.png News & Updates - Why a Lynx? Our mission's logo is evocative of rays of light, grazing incidence mirror shell segments, and, of course, X-rays. You can learn more about Lynx mission branding here. https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog/beginnings monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534793141422-5AJ8F2DCBINSER4FZCXD/Screen+Shot+2018-08-20+at+3.25.26+PM.png News & Updates - Big things have small beginnings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534731914166-5NXPH92CWYOCUOHT3AOI/iau_logo.png News & Updates - Big things have small beginnings https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog/interimreport monthly 0.5 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534774429905-X1STL4JY2RJPSJNH49H9/IR_cover.jpg News & Updates - The Lynx Interim Report Click to read our 2018 Interim Report (.pdf, 13 MB) https://www.lynxobservatory.org/blog/tag/Mirror monthly 0.5 https://www.lynxobservatory.org/mission daily 0.75 2021-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574092777050-Q68GAWOXPKLQX7CM6BT2/earth_apollo15_NOEARTH.png The Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1567018689580-VTALELREMJBD124XYNMI/Lynx_Spacecraft_instruments_Figure-WEB-01.png The Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1523464004244-DBF2JRX3166L3KZJ56LY/perseus.jpg The Mission - Sharp. Everywhere. Chandra's point-spread-function (PSF) blooms off-axis, meaning that its exquisite spatial resolution is maintained only within the central 2.5 arcminutes of the image. Lynx, with its new optics design, will maintain sub-arcsecond spatial resolution out to ten arcminutes, a sixteen-fold improvement over Chandra in area. Combined with a fifty-fold improvement in throughput, this will enable Lynx to survey the X-ray sky 800 times faster than Chandra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1523464997434-TPPJOE0Z4EWHB0L269P7/kepler.jpg The Mission - Two weeks with Chandra? A day's work for Lynx. Every Observation is Legacy Class. This Chandra image of Kepler's Supernova Remnant consumed 8.7 days (~750 ksec) of observing time. Lynx could create an even more stunning image, over a larger field of view, in a few hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526671733672-Z8X8X8NOXJAJSP7RJEI5/CHANDRA_VS_LYNX_MIRROR-01.png The Mission - The Lynx X-ray Mirror Assembly Lynx optics are an assembly of densely packed, thin, grazing incidence mirrors. The outer diameter of this nested shell will be 3 meters, enabling a total effective area of 2 square meters at 1 keV. They represent a transformational advancement in X-ray optics relative to Chandra, and are at the heart of Lynx's grasp on the Universe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534272096910-QYZ1ZECTJCXE4O763RDN/sxs.png The Mission The Hitomi SXS Microcalorimeter, consisting of a 6x6 array of 30" pixels (820 microns each) spanning a 3' field of view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534798328794-8QH6TKS5YP2H34KOUXVN/lxm The Mission A section of the technology prototype for the main LXM array. Here 50μm-sized (1") absorbers, 1280 total, are packaged into 4x5 "hydras", connected to 64 transition edge temperature sensors operating near T=0K. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1523492998474-YX1404T32YW6D2C4NDAG/Hitomi_Perseus_cluster_625.jpg The Mission - Black holes play musical notes. Lynx will listen. Hitomi, the tragically short-lived JAXA mission, demonstrated the power of X-ray microcalorimeters with its historic Perseus Cluster observation. Lynx will map the velocity structure of turbulence and sound waves driven by supermassive black holes at ~50 km/s resolution on sub-kiloparsec scales. Music to our ears. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1523500800519-N3QH5WT0YKGF1QBVKRAK/image-asset.jpeg The Mission A hybrid CMOS prototype under development for the HDXI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534799502214-J5AAZEOIH7XBA8TJCNC7/gratings The Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1568471553409-P6WV9Q6HXT5V4OSN819F/spacecraft_hero.jpg The Mission - Revolutionary payload. Proven spacecraft. Lynx is built around a large area, sub-arcsecond grazing incidence X-ray mirror assembly and three revolutionary science instruments. Together, they will enable high-sensitivity wide-field imaging at exquisite angular and spectral resolutions. The Lynx team has a preliminary design of an end-to-end "Reference" mission concept, fully detailed here in our Interim Report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1567089950725-3T6OD5CCNYY5Z4AHXHNN/Launch_Sequence_Web-01.png The Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534863195432-GYXK7BF5TOI152HDT8F0/earth_apollo15.jpg The Mission - A Beacon in the Void One hundred days after launch, Lynx will be inserted into a halo orbit around the Second Sun-Earth Lagrange Point (L2), one million miles beyond the moon. This orbit, with an 800,000 km semi-major axis, will maximize the time available for science observations, keep Lynx thermally stable, and negate the need for the spacecraft to traverse the Earth's Van Allen radiation belts, which render one-third of Chandra's orbit unusable for science. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1567018689580-VTALELREMJBD124XYNMI/Lynx_Spacecraft_instruments_Figure-WEB-01.png The Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534270546572-M087U6ZBISW996R97G27/Screen+Shot+2018-08-14+at+2.02.03+PM.png The Mission - Einstein X-ray Observatory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534270550578-XC9PJWD6I324Q4BRC2EC/Screen+Shot+2018-08-14+at+2.13.33+PM.png The Mission - Chandra X-ray Observatory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1523464004244-DBF2JRX3166L3KZJ56LY/perseus.jpg The Mission - Sharp. Everywhere. Chandra's point-spread-function (PSF) blooms off-axis, meaning that its exquisite spatial resolution is maintained only within the central 2.5 arcminutes of the image. Lynx, with its new optics design, will maintain sub-arcsecond spatial resolution out to ten arcminutes, a sixteen-fold improvement over Chandra in area. Combined with a fifty-fold improvement in throughput, this will enable Lynx to survey the X-ray sky 800 times faster than Chandra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1523464997434-TPPJOE0Z4EWHB0L269P7/kepler.jpg The Mission - Two weeks with Chandra? A day's work for Lynx. Every Observation is Legacy Class. This Chandra image of Kepler's Supernova Remnant consumed 8.7 days (~750 ksec) of observing time. Lynx could create an even more stunning image, over a larger field of view, in a few hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526671733672-Z8X8X8NOXJAJSP7RJEI5/CHANDRA_VS_LYNX_MIRROR-01.png The Mission - The Lynx X-ray Mirror Assembly Lynx optics are an assembly of densely packed, thin, grazing incidence mirrors. The outer diameter of this nested shell will be 3 meters, enabling a total effective area of 2 square meters at 1 keV. They represent a transformational advancement in X-ray optics relative to Chandra, and are at the heart of Lynx's grasp on the Universe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534272096910-QYZ1ZECTJCXE4O763RDN/sxs.png The Mission The Hitomi SXS Microcalorimeter, consisting of a 6x6 array of 30" pixels (820 microns each) spanning a 3' field of view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534798328794-8QH6TKS5YP2H34KOUXVN/lxm The Mission A section of the technology prototype for the main LXM array. Here 50μm-sized (1") absorbers, 1280 total, are packaged into 4x5 "hydras", connected to 64 transition edge temperature sensors operating near T=0K. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1523492998474-YX1404T32YW6D2C4NDAG/Hitomi_Perseus_cluster_625.jpg The Mission - Black holes play musical notes. Lynx will listen. Hitomi, the tragically short-lived JAXA mission, demonstrated the power of X-ray microcalorimeters with its historic Perseus Cluster observation. Lynx will map the velocity structure of turbulence and sound waves driven by supermassive black holes at ~50 km/s resolution on sub-kiloparsec scales. Music to our ears. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1523500800519-N3QH5WT0YKGF1QBVKRAK/image-asset.jpeg The Mission A hybrid CMOS prototype under development for the HDXI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534799502214-J5AAZEOIH7XBA8TJCNC7/gratings The Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1568471553409-P6WV9Q6HXT5V4OSN819F/spacecraft_hero.jpg The Mission - Revolutionary payload. Proven spacecraft. Lynx is built around a large area, sub-arcsecond grazing incidence X-ray mirror assembly and three revolutionary science instruments. Together, they will enable high-sensitivity wide-field imaging at exquisite angular and spectral resolutions. The Lynx team has a preliminary design of an end-to-end "Reference" mission concept, fully detailed here in our Interim Report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1567089950725-3T6OD5CCNYY5Z4AHXHNN/Launch_Sequence_Web-01.png The Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534863195432-GYXK7BF5TOI152HDT8F0/earth_apollo15.jpg The Mission - A Beacon in the Void One hundred days after launch, Lynx will be inserted into a halo orbit around the Second Sun-Earth Lagrange Point (L2), one million miles beyond the moon. This orbit, with an 800,000 km semi-major axis, will maximize the time available for science observations, keep Lynx thermally stable, and negate the need for the spacecraft to traverse the Earth's Van Allen radiation belts, which render one-third of Chandra's orbit unusable for science. https://www.lynxobservatory.org/credits daily 0.75 2018-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1543353468440-7C8SWYYBGC6BQDHLUGOE/bh_3.jpg Credits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526650106408-IWZA3RIH6VM0MG0191FW/Splash_Logo_Wide-01-01.png Credits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534794830450-HILZOWV8WQ0KDVR03GD1/nasa_logo_wide-01.png Credits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1529366005245-0A2DTDYT0EFG2U7741R9/CfA_SAO_Composite-01.png Credits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526650106408-IWZA3RIH6VM0MG0191FW/Splash_Logo_Wide-01-01.png Credits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534794830450-HILZOWV8WQ0KDVR03GD1/nasa_logo_wide-01.png Credits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1529366005245-0A2DTDYT0EFG2U7741R9/CfA_SAO_Composite-01.png Credits https://www.lynxobservatory.org/dawn daily 0.75 2019-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1543353397284-SP7ZPYJIJUB2HQRQV4M1/bh_2.jpg Black Hole Dawn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534346682753-19WPBFLAC7H34JR301RT/image-asset.png Black Hole Dawn Image credit: Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science (modified and used with permission). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534811337841-BL98R1D8DDWR69A196KW/bhmass-01.png Black Hole Dawn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534347765291-TUQ7KPD3QNJKEPI9QMJQ/CPA4.jpg Black Hole Dawn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534346682753-19WPBFLAC7H34JR301RT/image-asset.png Black Hole Dawn Image credit: Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science (modified and used with permission). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1524803278479-JG6QDY31IKNO3MTABTNX/ATHENADeepField.gif Black Hole Dawn - The Confusion Limit An Athena deep field at 10’’ spatial resolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1524803280389-ZP7D1LJX3UW769HBDWKY/LynxDeepField.gif Black Hole Dawn - The Solution The same field with Lynx https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534347122607-N80F6BUG1LE0G8ZPJVH6/3filters.png Black Hole Dawn - A JWST simulation of the same field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534811337841-BL98R1D8DDWR69A196KW/bhmass-01.png Black Hole Dawn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534347765291-TUQ7KPD3QNJKEPI9QMJQ/CPA4.jpg Black Hole Dawn https://www.lynxobservatory.org/light daily 0.75 2019-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526473321188-L0U8LFFY0QR82SX2EZMV/casa_life_lg.jpg The Energetic Side of Stellar Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526921649884-3HBRHNYTRF3WFV3JGU6A/sunxray.png The Energetic Side of Stellar Evolution - Alien sunrises Discovery and characterization of exoplanets is rapidly becoming a mature field. The emphasis will increasingly shift towards statistical characterization of the planet populations and the assessment of habitable conditions. The activity of the host star can significantly deplete planetary atmospheres, and at the same time may be required for primitive biochemistry. Studying the effects of stellar activity on habitability are especially important for planets around dwarf stars, the very population whose atmospheres will be accessible for studies in the 2020’s with large, ground-based optical telescopes and JWST. Lynx will detect X-ray emission as markers of young stars in active star forming regions, study stellar coronae in detail, and provide essential insight into the impact of stellar X-ray and extreme ultraviolet flux and winds on the habitability of their planets. While it is currently an open case whether the best candidates for habitable planets will be around G, K, or M stars, it is clear that understanding the role of the star’s ionizing radiation, stellar winds, and energetic particles will be of central importance in assessing the case for habitability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534808417272-FUVL3XVN2B84RRN0DGWD/archives_wd2.jpg The Energetic Side of Stellar Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534808418536-2VTU867MZVZLEPWAPFGU/archives_wd2_xray.jpg The Energetic Side of Stellar Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526921649884-3HBRHNYTRF3WFV3JGU6A/sunxray.png The Energetic Side of Stellar Evolution - Alien sunrises Discovery and characterization of exoplanets is rapidly becoming a mature field. The emphasis will increasingly shift towards statistical characterization of the planet populations and the assessment of habitable conditions. The activity of the host star can significantly deplete planetary atmospheres, and at the same time may be required for primitive biochemistry. Studying the effects of stellar activity on habitability are especially important for planets around dwarf stars, the very population whose atmospheres will be accessible for studies in the 2020’s with large, ground-based optical telescopes and JWST. Lynx will detect X-ray emission as markers of young stars in active star forming regions, study stellar coronae in detail, and provide essential insight into the impact of stellar X-ray and extreme ultraviolet flux and winds on the habitability of their planets. While it is currently an open case whether the best candidates for habitable planets will be around G, K, or M stars, it is clear that understanding the role of the star’s ionizing radiation, stellar winds, and energetic particles will be of central importance in assessing the case for habitability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526614273133-4NLLY0M675CJJL23OP46/CasA_Athena.png The Energetic Side of Stellar Evolution - Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant Athena, with 5’’ Resolution | 50 kiloseconds (simulated) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526614423593-IUTWQ9NMDRUNJT66NZPQ/CasA_Lynx_WithX-01.png The Energetic Side of Stellar Evolution - Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant Lynx, with subarcsecond resolution | 50 kiloseconds (simulated) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534554197835-UFJL4DQAMRGWMGEBWTXJ/Screen+Shot+2018-08-17+at+9.01.02+PM.png The Energetic Side of Stellar 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https://www.lynxobservatory.org/engines daily 0.75 2019-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1537993763386-ZSKTQYPB3PPS872QWLYO/evan-01.png Drivers of Galaxy Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526905266947-6CW3J9SK1S5PEU6WEYJK/m82.jpg Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - Halos of X-ray Light The thermodynamic state, chemical composition, and spatial structure of hot gas in a galaxy's halo encodes the history of its assembly and evolution amid energetic feedback from star formation and black hole growth. Lynx will probe the hot circumgalactic medium (CGM) of Milky-Way-mass galaxies close to their virial radius via direct imaging in emission and gratings spectroscopy in absorption against background quasars, which serve as bright "backlights". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1545396044678-IV4R84JQBPF30PGU413D/filaments.png Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - The Cosmic Tapestry A complex spider's web of filaments spans the gulf of our Universe. Within these filaments, baryons - the building blocks of the luminous Cosmos - contain a fossil record of energetic feedback and the material ejected from galaxies. These ejecta should be millions of degrees, and primarily emit in X-rays. This signal, however, is incredibly faint, and impossible to map with any facility other than Lynx. Modern facilities have thus far only scratched the surface, with detections of ultraviolet and X-ray absorption signatures along single sight-lines. The image at left shows a simulated ten square degree field surveyed by Lynx with 10 megasecond depth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526906445291-HQ3U7B5NNQUKDPH5UGKR/Herschel_agn_galaxy.jpg Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - The Winds of Change Lynx will resolve galaxy-scale winds at physical resolutions that range from hundreds of parsecs to tens of kiloparsecs, depending on target distance. The Lynx X-ray Microcalorimeter will map the spatially resolved velocity structure of these winds at 0.3 eV spectral resolution, resolving velocity structures down to a few tens of km/s. Indeed, Lynx creates multidimensional data cubes, wherein every imaging pixel is also a time-resolved spectrum. It's not just an X-ray telescope. It's an X-ray machine for galaxies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534351113283-1ET8EONDMGRLBB2DX2KJ/image-asset.jpeg Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - Black Hole Fountains Lynx will map many facets of black hole feedback. It will resolve extended, narrow emission line regions and AGN-inflated bubbles to map the energy generated and dissipated on galactic scales. Because of its hyper-fine angular resolution, Lynx will directly observe gas around the black hole sphere of influence, enabling an entirely new understanding of the "supply side" of feedback and black hole growth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534804610596-MG5Z8ZF7CA11FD63FB40/archives_ms0735.png Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - Black holes blow bubbles. These are among the largest bubbles in the Universe. You could fit a few hundred Milky Way galaxies in each of these giant, buoyantly rising voids of hot X-ray gas, mapped by Chandra in blue. Jets of plasma launched by the central supermassive black hole inflate these bubbles, which act as calorimeters for the black hole's total kinetic energy input. In this case, those jets have imparted about one trillion trillion atomic bombs per second worth of energy into the X-ray atmosphere. Lynx will bear witness to the most energetic events in the Universe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534804643978-0KVSSVNZJZUSKIE76S4F/composite_mrk573.jpg Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - Black holes play musical notes. In addition to inflating buoyant cavities, black holes can drive sound waves in the ambient hot gas. Perseus, for example, is ringing with on of the lowest known musical notes in the universe, 57 octaves below Middle C. This composite view of the active galaxy Markarian 573 combines X-ray data (blue) from Chandra X-ray and radio observations (purple) from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico with a visible light image (gold) from the Hubble Space Telescope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534804798724-TTD6OGXRHTSBUTEOKZDS/centaurus.png Drivers of Galaxy Evolution Chandra observation of the Centaurus Cluster, a nearby X-ray cool core. An edge-detection filter has been applied, showing surface brightness discontinuities in the data. These structures have been sculpted by sloshing gas and feedback from the central supermassive black hole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534809820120-VA4E8TIXZL8U4TKAX5KT/Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_cold_intergalactic_rain.jpg Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - Black holes feed. Lynx's unrivaled angular resolution will be sufficient to determine the gas state at or near the sphere of influence of supermassive black holes in nearby galaxies. While it is likely that the accretion flow within this radius significantly deviates from the Bondi solution, the estimate can still serve as a useful proxy for the instantaneous accretion rate on the black hole. The efficiency factor cannot be determined from first principles, and can be uncertain by approximately an order of magnitude, with the correspondingly uncertain consequences for predictions of the AGN feedback effect on galaxies. Dramatically better sensitivity and new spectral gas diagnostics available with Lynx will make it possible to derive the Bondi rate far more reliably, and in a larger sample of galaxies. These observations will be used to guide subgrid parameterizations of the AGN feedback in numerical models. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526905266947-6CW3J9SK1S5PEU6WEYJK/m82.jpg Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - Halos of X-ray Light The thermodynamic state, chemical composition, and spatial structure of hot gas in a galaxy's halo encodes the history of its assembly and evolution amid energetic feedback from star formation and black hole growth. Lynx will probe the hot circumgalactic medium (CGM) of Milky-Way-mass galaxies close to their virial radius via direct imaging in emission and gratings spectroscopy in absorption against background quasars, which serve as bright "backlights". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1545396044678-IV4R84JQBPF30PGU413D/filaments.png Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - The Cosmic Tapestry A complex spider's web of filaments spans the gulf of our Universe. Within these filaments, baryons - the building blocks of the luminous Cosmos - contain a fossil record of energetic feedback and the material ejected from galaxies. These ejecta should be millions of degrees, and primarily emit in X-rays. This signal, however, is incredibly faint, and impossible to map with any facility other than Lynx. Modern facilities have thus far only scratched the surface, with detections of ultraviolet and X-ray absorption signatures along single sight-lines. The image at left shows a simulated ten square degree field surveyed by Lynx with 10 megasecond depth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526906445291-HQ3U7B5NNQUKDPH5UGKR/Herschel_agn_galaxy.jpg Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - The Winds of Change Lynx will resolve galaxy-scale winds at physical resolutions that range from hundreds of parsecs to tens of kiloparsecs, depending on target distance. The Lynx X-ray Microcalorimeter will map the spatially resolved velocity structure of these winds at 0.3 eV spectral resolution, resolving velocity structures down to a few tens of km/s. Indeed, Lynx creates multidimensional data cubes, wherein every imaging pixel is also a time-resolved spectrum. It's not just an X-ray telescope. It's an X-ray machine for galaxies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534552782512-5HHY20OL53HWKKLBS1BD/ngc6357.png Drivers of Galaxy Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534552794006-1B0QQRW3LD9K3AQV618B/ngc6357_xray.png Drivers of Galaxy Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534351113283-1ET8EONDMGRLBB2DX2KJ/image-asset.jpeg Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - Black Hole Fountains Lynx will map many facets of black hole feedback. It will resolve extended, narrow emission line regions and AGN-inflated bubbles to map the energy generated and dissipated on galactic scales. Because of its hyper-fine angular resolution, Lynx will directly observe gas around the black hole sphere of influence, enabling an entirely new understanding of the "supply side" of feedback and black hole growth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534804610596-MG5Z8ZF7CA11FD63FB40/archives_ms0735.png Drivers of Galaxy Evolution - Black holes blow bubbles. These are among the largest bubbles in the Universe. You could fit a few hundred Milky Way galaxies in each of these giant, buoyantly rising voids of hot X-ray gas, mapped by Chandra in blue. Jets of plasma launched by the central supermassive black hole inflate these bubbles, which act as calorimeters for the black hole's total kinetic energy input. 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While it is likely that the accretion flow within this radius significantly deviates from the Bondi solution, the estimate can still serve as a useful proxy for the instantaneous accretion rate on the black hole. The efficiency factor cannot be determined from first principles, and can be uncertain by approximately an order of magnitude, with the correspondingly uncertain consequences for predictions of the AGN feedback effect on galaxies. Dramatically better sensitivity and new spectral gas diagnostics available with Lynx will make it possible to derive the Bondi rate far more reliably, and in a larger sample of galaxies. These observations will be used to guide subgrid parameterizations of the AGN feedback in numerical models. https://www.lynxobservatory.org/404 daily 0.75 2018-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1526923303484-JLPVIRWDO9YL1A292P05/m82_print4.jpg Lost https://www.lynxobservatory.org/spacecraft-model-test daily 0.75 2021-07-29 https://www.lynxobservatory.org/lynx-in-context daily 0.75 2019-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534774198449-PZOPGQNXB9FZHKGDCGOH/earth_apollo15.jpg Lynx in Context https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534798595491-2IOHXFHBUFMSWP82D1BA/jupiter_south_pole.jpg Lynx in Context - Lynx will look far. And near. Lynx will peer deep into the distant Universe, and collect light from the first black holes. Its greatest power, though, will be the breadth of the scientific landscape this facility will explore. From the most distant galaxies to the shining poles of Jupiter, Lynx will explore the vast reach of our boundless Universe, and build upon the tradition set by NASA's Great Observatories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534774134323-IES9FF7GOYJTOLDDQQA0/fromAtoX-01.png Lynx in Context https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534796263269-R31DSS9JGQKJ34L2S1OP/crab_einstein Lynx in Context 40 years ago | The pulsar looming in the heart of M1, the Crab Nebula. The Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2) took this image in 1979 with 5 arcsecond spatial resolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534796285167-T8L4O93C3ERL6GCL5N08/crab_chandra.jpg Lynx in Context Today | Chandra's view of the Crab Pulsar, with ten times better spatial resolution. Lynx will achieve even higher resolution, and maintain it over a 16-fold improvement in the image area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1547499142205-6FH4E4VLFI14OKVU28N8/twhydra.png Lynx in Context A simulated Lynx and Athena spectroscopic observation of TW Hydra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534941801403-MF1EN8WMMTZPK6A0I9D1/maxresdefault.jpg Lynx in Context - The Giant Magellan Telescope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534797037619-D65DSC7V8GNU4PRJD11N/gallery-webb-telescope_0.jpg Lynx in Context - James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534941803612-ZX898CVDH6Y1IZ0AKZQO/44bca7af186b5830b5447acb0c765260385d1e26.jpg Lynx in Context - Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534797075034-2Q2X4FCSP8DGPVL5SQHN/Wfirst0947.png Lynx in Context - Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534941805809-17JJT26P9VMT3RKUAUVY/ann16007a.jpg Lynx in Context - European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534797338011-U41PAZSSJT6GWMAC1YGN/Screen+Shot+2018-08-20+at+4.35.15+PM.png Lynx in Context - Lynx X-ray Observatory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534798595491-2IOHXFHBUFMSWP82D1BA/jupiter_south_pole.jpg Lynx in Context - Lynx will look far. And near. Lynx will peer deep into the distant Universe, and collect light from the first black holes. Its greatest power, though, will be the breadth of the scientific landscape this facility will explore. From the most distant galaxies to the shining poles of Jupiter, Lynx will explore the vast reach of our boundless Universe, and build upon the tradition set by NASA's Great Observatories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534774134323-IES9FF7GOYJTOLDDQQA0/fromAtoX-01.png Lynx in Context https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534784387419-3RHA21MCHHKUCO1BGPOE/science_drivers_graphics.005.png Lynx in Context - M87 at 0.5 arcsecond spatial resolution LYNX X-RAY OBSERVATORY (simulated) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534784388192-AONKWDYVCJ8M4XEE2A2B/science_drivers_graphics.006.png Lynx in Context - M87 at 5 arcsecond spatial resolution Athena (simulated) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534795979516-TVBLXISKUYBKX20Q9FWN/science_drivers_graphics.006.png Lynx in Context https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534795980940-EMYZCG8GFMWCKXCRJG7I/science_drivers_graphics.007.png Lynx in Context https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534796263269-R31DSS9JGQKJ34L2S1OP/crab_einstein Lynx in Context 40 years ago | The pulsar looming in the heart of M1, the Crab Nebula. The Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2) took this image in 1979 with 5 arcsecond spatial resolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534796285167-T8L4O93C3ERL6GCL5N08/crab_chandra.jpg Lynx in Context Today | Chandra's view of the Crab Pulsar, with ten times better spatial resolution. Lynx will achieve even higher resolution, and maintain it over a 16-fold improvement in the image area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1547499142205-6FH4E4VLFI14OKVU28N8/twhydra.png Lynx in Context A simulated Lynx and Athena spectroscopic observation of TW Hydra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1547499028105-LVW88WO4RWZAHKXPSHQE/spider_LynxAthena.png Lynx in Context https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1547499031320-0Y1KD44SNGT30L9LCU8R/spider_LynxAthena_Pillars.png Lynx in Context https://www.lynxobservatory.org/team daily 0.75 2020-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1587044486425-8SU5RHHSTV8M40SXH96J/lynx_logo_flame_tranparent.png The Lynx Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534967783009-PJPC5G1KC653OORPWPLM/X_logo_wide.png The Lynx Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1564855954749-EJQVBMD4AKFPMSGCZFTZ/Lynx_Fall_F2F_s.jpg The Lynx Team A small subset of the Lynx Team at an early Face-to-Face meeting of the concept study (2016). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1587044486425-8SU5RHHSTV8M40SXH96J/lynx_logo_flame_tranparent.png The Lynx Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1534967783009-PJPC5G1KC653OORPWPLM/X_logo_wide.png The Lynx Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1564855954749-EJQVBMD4AKFPMSGCZFTZ/Lynx_Fall_F2F_s.jpg The Lynx Team A small subset of the Lynx Team at an early Face-to-Face meeting of the concept study (2016). https://www.lynxobservatory.org/report-download daily 0.75 2019-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1566678253323-DHVKAT7QTCSYQLRTAMZX/earth_horizon_noshuttle.jpg Concept Study Report https://www.lynxobservatory.org/stm daily 0.75 2019-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574538239386-15WSBYZ90DTF3N2VCFBF/Orbit_Mobile_Backdrop.png Science Traceability Matrix https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574538367802-424PBRXB2WLVCFRSFG4O/lynx_stm.png Science Traceability Matrix Download the Lynx Science Traceability Matrix as a .pdf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574538367802-424PBRXB2WLVCFRSFG4O/lynx_stm.png Science Traceability Matrix Download the Lynx Science Traceability Matrix as a .pdf https://www.lynxobservatory.org/documents daily 0.75 2020-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574538569732-R48XADM4WKRU0LBJIYMF/earth_apollo15_NOEARTH.png Lynx Documents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574538660798-O1J4IULOLXYH7AV4HOEH/LynxCover.png Lynx Documents The Lynx Concept Study Report https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574539059236-0WA6FV3M4VR0LP9T89PD/Tech_Roadmaps_Cover2.png Lynx Documents Technology Roadmaps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1579289122856-D9IA87E9D5TSE7YYOJY5/Cost_Book_Cover.png Lynx Documents As part of the Concept Study Phase, the Lynx Team commissioned five independent cost estimates, the results of which are summarized in a >200 page Cost Book. This book has been submitted to the relevant Astro2020 Panels as well as The Aerospace Corp. as part of the TRACE process. It is not posted here because the document is rated Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) by NASA. A redacted version will be made publicly available soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574539175051-OWY8QY4J4PGNTMOPZCC6/RFI_Response_Final.png Lynx Documents Astro2020 RFI #1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1583782803076-OZV3W8BZZW2PNE3U8V0U/Mirror_Manufacturing_Study_Cover.png Lynx Documents An industry report on manufacturing segments for the Lynx X-ray Mirror Assembly, by Jonathan Arenberg (Northrop Grumman) and Lynn Allen (L3Harris) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1583800209940-0NP8SHRLCYCFEREEW1T4/JATIS_Cover.png Lynx Documents A Special Section in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) on the Lynx X-ray Observatory, consisting of 21 refereed academic papers with deep-dive content not found in the Final Report. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574538660798-O1J4IULOLXYH7AV4HOEH/LynxCover.png Lynx Documents The Lynx Concept Study Report https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574539059236-0WA6FV3M4VR0LP9T89PD/Tech_Roadmaps_Cover2.png Lynx Documents Technology Roadmaps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1579289122856-D9IA87E9D5TSE7YYOJY5/Cost_Book_Cover.png Lynx Documents As part of the Concept Study Phase, the Lynx Team commissioned five independent cost estimates, the results of which are summarized in a >200 page Cost Book. This book has been submitted to the relevant Astro2020 Panels as well as The Aerospace Corp. as part of the TRACE process. It is not posted here because the document is rated Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) by NASA. A redacted version will be made publicly available soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574539175051-OWY8QY4J4PGNTMOPZCC6/RFI_Response_Final.png Lynx Documents Astro2020 RFI #1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1583782803076-OZV3W8BZZW2PNE3U8V0U/Mirror_Manufacturing_Study_Cover.png Lynx Documents An industry report on manufacturing segments for the Lynx X-ray Mirror Assembly, by Jonathan Arenberg (Northrop Grumman) and Lynn Allen (L3Harris) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1583800209940-0NP8SHRLCYCFEREEW1T4/JATIS_Cover.png Lynx Documents A Special Section in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) on the Lynx X-ray Observatory, consisting of 21 refereed academic papers with deep-dive content not found in the Final Report. https://www.lynxobservatory.org/roadmaps daily 0.75 2019-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574652120719-54EX6IX3Y4T990L6NI17/43266800264_f414e52bc1_o.jpg Roadmaps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574651922255-U8K43BNSNU3X9PTRJF6V/image-asset.png Roadmaps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1574651922255-U8K43BNSNU3X9PTRJF6V/image-asset.png Roadmaps https://www.lynxobservatory.org/why-lynx daily 0.75 2020-02-27 https://www.lynxobservatory.org/mirror daily 0.75 2020-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1586977661997-KF1GSYXA6LTSP6XU5F39/43266800264_f414e52bc1_o.jpg Mirror https://www.lynxobservatory.org/soxs daily 0.75 2022-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1588952399392-GZ4NB648B7GG9LSEMZ8O/image-asset.png SOXS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1589344223104-9E8WVYYN8232P3TQ6OV0/Lynx_Science_Support_Office-01.png SOXS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1589376135964-DH6MGVPAUEANIIEIH2WV/john_soxs_figure-02.png SOXS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1589377537774-6G6S5JAF1931GRNS5L2K/cfa_logo-1.png SOXS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1589377638083-T05J7UHQTIHFMQKEHXD8/astropy_project_logo-01.png SOXS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1588952399392-GZ4NB648B7GG9LSEMZ8O/image-asset.png SOXS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1589344223104-9E8WVYYN8232P3TQ6OV0/Lynx_Science_Support_Office-01.png SOXS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1589376135964-DH6MGVPAUEANIIEIH2WV/john_soxs_figure-02.png SOXS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1589377537774-6G6S5JAF1931GRNS5L2K/cfa_logo-1.png SOXS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1589377638083-T05J7UHQTIHFMQKEHXD8/astropy_project_logo-01.png SOXS https://www.lynxobservatory.org/landing daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/3face2f2-c340-4fa0-9ade-a28a100a01ec/Wordmark_Vector_White-01.png Welcome https://www.lynxobservatory.org/report daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac66a1e1137a6a9d6412267/1566675377138-XN3SI5LDEPM1SEQSAIQH/Wordmark_Vector_White-01.png Concept Study Report https://www.lynxobservatory.org/lynx2030 daily 1.0 2026-03-26 https://www.lynxobservatory.org/join daily 0.75 2026-03-30