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| Committees | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Group Photograph | p. xvii |
| Mission and Instrumental | |
| The Simbol-X Mission | p. 3 |
| Simbol-X Core Science in a Context | p. 9 |
| The Simbol-X Focal Plane | p. 15 |
| The Simbol-X Low Energy Detector | p. 21 |
| The High Energy Detector of Simbol-X | p. 25 |
| A Fast Event Preprocessor and Sequencer for the Simbol-X Low Energy Detector | p. 31 |
| Simbol-X Hard X-ray Focusing Mirros: Results Obtained during the Phase A Study | p. 35 |
| On the Compliance of Simbol-X Mirror Roughness with its Effective Area Requirements | p. 41 |
| Simbol-X Mirror Module Thermal Shields: I - Design and X-ray Transmission | p. 44 |
| Simbol-X Mirror Module Thermal Shields: II - Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Measurements | p. 48 |
| Simulation of the Simbol-X Telescope | p. 52 |
| A Simbol-X Event Simulator | p. 56 |
| Formation Flying and Deformable Instruments | p. 59 |
| Imaging Performance Analysis of Simbol-X with Simulations | p. 62 |
| Simbol-X Formation Flight and Image Reconstruction | p. 65 |
| The Integration Process of Very Thin Mirror Shells with a Particular Regard to Simbol-X | p. 69 |
| Background Rejection of Charged Particles in the Simbol-X Telescope: Preliminary Study of Protons Scattering | p. 72 |
| Status of the Simbol-X Background Simulation Activities | p. 75 |
| Simbol-X Background Minimization: Mirror Spacecraft Passive Shielding Trade-off Study | p. 79 |
| The Simbol-X Anticoincidence | p. 82 |
| Simbol-X Telescope Scientific Calibrations: Requirements and Plans | p. 85 |
| Effects of Small Oscillations on the Effective Area | p. 88 |
| Nine Years of XMM-Newton Pipeline: Experience and Feedback | p. 91 |
| Mining Connected Data | p. 94 |
| Catalogs andSurveys | |
| The Hard X-ray Sky: Recent Observational Progress | p. 99 |
| The Palermo Swift-BAT Hard X-ray Catalogue: Results After 39 Months of Sky Survey | p. 104 |
| Extragalactic Hard X-ray Surveys: From Integral to Simbol-X | p. 108 |
| The Extra-galactic Hard X-ray Sky as Painted by Integral | p. 112 |
| Simbol-X: Synergies with JWST, ALMA and Herschel | p. 116 |
| CAIXA: A Catalogue of AGN In the XMM-Newton Archive-Correlations | p. 122 |
| Large Scale Structures in the Goods-South Field up to z¿ 2.5 | p. 125 |
| Accretion and Jets (I): AGNs | |
| Blazars in Hard X-rays | p. 131 |
| Study of the Variability of the Reflection Component in Seyfert 1 Galaxies: Connecting the Fe K Variability with the Compton Hump | p. 137 |
| Compton Reflection in AGN with Simbol-X | p. 141 |
| Cloudy Skies over AGN: Observations with Simbol-X | p. 145 |
| Multiwavelength Coverage of a Bright Flare from Sgr A* | p. 149 |
| The Galactic Center View with Simbol-X | p. 153 |
| Powerful Radio Galaxies with Simbol-X: Lobes and Hot Spots | p. 156 |
| Powerful Radio Sources with Simbol-X: The Nucleus | p. 159 |
| Exploring Black Hole Accretion in Active Galactic Nuclei with Simbol-X | p. 162 |
| The Multi-Component X-ray Emission of 3C 273 | p. 165 |
| Accretion and Jets (II): Binaries & ULX | |
| Relativistic Jets on All Scales in Accreting Black Holes: Contributions from Simbol-X | p. 171 |
| Ejection of the Corona at State Transitions: A Common Behavior in Microquasars? | p. 177 |
| The Accretion-Ejection Mechanisms in X-ray Binaries: An Unified View | p. 181 |
| Black-hole Binaries: Life Begins at 40 keV | p. 185 |
| Synchrotron and Coulomb Boiler in Cygnus X-1 | p. 189 |
| Identification of Hard X-ray Sources in Galactic Globular Clusters: Simbol-X Simulations | p. 193 |
| Re-established Accretion in Post-outburst Classical Novae Revealed by X-rays | p. 197 |
| The ULX NGC 1313 X-2: An Optical Study Revealing an Interesting Behavior | p. 201 |
| Evolution of Cygnus X-3 through its Radio and X-ray States | p. 204 |
| Broadband Correlations Provide Evidence for Synchrotron Self-Compton X-rays from the Black Hole Binary GX 339-4 | p. 207 |
| Exploring the Hard and Soft X-ray Emission of Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables | p. 210 |
| CXB, Obscured Accretion | |
| The Cosmological Evolution of AGNs: Predictions from Galaxy Formation Models | p. 215 |
| Heavily Obscured AGN with Simbol-X | p. 219 |
| A New Measurement of the Cosmic X-ray Background | p. 223 |
| The Infrared View of Luminous X-ray Selected Type 2 Quasars and Coeval Nuclear Activity and Star Formation at z=2 | p. 227 |
| High-z X-ray Obscured Quasars in Galaxies with Extreme Mid-IR/Optical Colors | p. 231 |
| The Extreme SED of the Quasar [HB89] 0102-272 | p. 235 |
| Powerful Radio Galaxies with Simbol-X: the Nuclear Environment | p. 239 |
| The IR to X-rays SED of the Heavily Obsured 2 Quasar IRAS 09104+4109 | p. 242 |
| The Simbol-X Perspective on the Physics of Quasar Outflows | p. 245 |
| Acceleration | |
| Hard X-ray Emission and Efficient Particle Acceleration by Supernova Remnants | p. 251 |
| The Emerging Population of Pulsar Wind Nebulae in Hard X-rays | p. 259 |
| What Can Simbol-X Do for Gamma-ray Binaries? | p. 263 |
| X-ray Studies of Unidentified Galactic TeV Gamma-ray Sources | p. 267 |
| X-ray Observations of PSR B1259-63 2007 Periastron Passage | p. 271 |
| Clusters of Galaxies | |
| Nonthermal Emission from Clusters of Galaxies: The Importance of a Joint LOFAR/Simbol-X View | p. 277 |
| Hard X-ray Emission from Galaxy Clusters Observed with Integral and Prospects for Simbol-X | p. 283 |
| Scrutinizing the AGN Heating Mechanism in Galaxy Clusters | p. 286 |
| Metallicity Maps: X-ray Observation versus Simulation | p. 290 |
| Neutron Stars and Accreting Pulsars | |
| Cyclotron Lines in Accreting Neutron Star Spectra | p. 295 |
| The Accretion Powered Spin-up of GRO 1750-27 | p. 301 |
| Prospects for Simbol-X Observations of Magnetars | p. 305 |
| How Simbol-X Will Reveal the Most Obscured High Energy Sources of our Galaxy | p. 309 |
| Spectral Evolution Along the Orbit of IGR J16320-4751 with XMM-Newton | p. 313 |
| A New Comptonization Model for Weakly Magnetized Accreting NS LMXBs | p. 316 |
| The First X-ray Eclipse of IGR J16479-514? | p. 319 |
| Identifying a New Intermediate SFXT: Discovering a 30 Day Period in SAX J1818.6-1703 | p. 322 |
| Pulsed Thermal Emission from the Accreting Pulsar XMMU J054134.7-682550 | p. 325 |
| Focused Study of Thermonuclear Bursts on Neutron Stars | p. 328 |
| A Bulk and Thermal Comptonization Model for the Accreting Pulsar 4U 0115+634 | p. 331 |
| Relativistically Smeared Iron Lines in the Spectra of Bright NS LMXB | p. 335 |
| Observatory Science | |
| Young Stellar Objects From Soft to Hard X-rays | p. 341 |
| Nonthermal Processes in Colliding-Wind Massive Binaries: The Contribution of Simbol-X to a Multiwavelength Investigation | p. 347 |
| Hard X-ray Flux from Low-mass Stars in the Cygnus OB2 Association | p. 351 |
| Six Years of Monitoring of the Sgr B2 Molecular Cloud with Integral | p. 355 |
| 44Ti Nucleosynthesis Lines and Hard X-ray Continuum in Young SNRs: from Integral to Simbol-X | p. 359 |
| Iron Line Complex from Illuminated Accretion Disk Atmospheres | p. 364 |
| Tidal Disruption of Small Satellites Orbiting Black Holes | p. 367 |
| Crab Pulsar Observations with AquEYE | p. 370 |
| Correlations between X-ray Emission and Accretion Tracers in a COUP Subsample of T Tauri Stars | p. 373 |
| Author Index | p. 377 |
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