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| | Kronos MIDEX Mission |
 | | Kronos is a multiwavelength observatory designed to map the accretion disks and environments of supermassive fl holes in active galactic nuclei and stellar-sized fl holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs in Galactic binary systems. |
 | | Kronos makes use of the natural intrinsic variability of accretion-driven sources through sophisticated timing-based methodologies that allow us to map these sources at effectively microarcsecond angular resolution: this is 10,000 times smaller than Hubble Space Telescope images, and far beyond the capabilities of any current or near-horizon technology. |
 | | The Kronos Observatory, designed for operation in a high-Earth orbit environment to maximize on-source observing time, is comprised of sensitive X-ray (0.1-10 keV), far ultraviolet (100-170 nm), and near-ultraviolet/visible (270-540 nm) spectrophotometers. |
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