This is a White Paper in support of the mission concept of the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT), proposed as a medium-sized ESA mission. We discuss the potential of LOFT for the study of thermonuclear X-ray bursts on accreting neutron stars. For a summary, we refer to the paper.
@article{arxiv.1501.02776,
title = {The LOFT perspective on neutron star thermonuclear bursts},
author = {J. J. M. in 't Zand and D. Altamirano and D. R. Ballantyne and S. Bhattacharyya and E. F. Brown and Y. Cavecchi and D. Chakrabarty and J. Chenevez and A. Cumming and N. Degenaar and M. Falanga and D. K. Galloway and A. Heger and J. José and L. Keek and M. Linares and S. Mahmoodifar and C. M. Malone and M. Méndez and M. C. Miller and F. B. S. Paerels and J. Poutanen and A. Rózanska and H. Schatz and M. Serino and T. E. Strohmayer and V. F. Suleimanov and F. -K. Thielemann and A. L. Watts and N. N. Weinberg and S. E. Woosley and W. Yu and S. Zhang and M. Zingale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.02776},
year = {2015}
}
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White Paper in Support of the Mission Concept of the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing