We present the Microchannel X-ray Telescope, a new light and compact focussing telescope that will be flying on the Sino-French SVOM mission dedicated to Gamma-Ray Burst science. The MXT design is based on the coupling of square pore micro-channel plates with a low noise pnCCD. MXT will provide an effective area of about 50 cmsq, and its point spread function is expected to be better than 3.7 arc min (FWHM) on axis. The estimated sensitivity is adequate to detect all the afterglows of the SVOM GRBs, and to localize them to better then 60 arc sec after five minutes of observation.
@article{arxiv.1407.2406,
title = {The Microchannel X-ray Telescope for the Gamma-Ray Burst mission SVOM},
author = {D. Gotz and J. Osborne and B. Cordier and J. Paul and P. Evans and A. Beardmore and A. Martindale and R. Willingale and P. O'Brien and S. Basa and C. Rossin and O. Godet and N. Webb and J. Greiner and K. Nandra and N. Meidinger and E. Perinati and A. Santangelo and K. Mercier and F. Gonzalez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2406},
year = {2015}
}
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12 pages, 8 figures, to be published in SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, Montreal, June 2014