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 the physics of accretion and ejection around compact objects. For a summary, we refer to the paper.
@article{arxiv.1501.02766,
title = {The physics of accretion-ejection with LOFT},
author = {P. Casella and R. Fender and M. Coriat and E. Kalemci and S. Motta and J. Neilsen and G. Ponti and M. Begelman and T. Belloni and E. Koerding and T. J. Maccarone and P. -O. Petrucci and J. Rodriguez and J. Tomsick and S. Bhattacharyya and S. Bianchi and M. Del Santo and I. Donnarumma and P. Gandhi and J. Homan and P. Jonker and M. Kalamkar and J. Malzac and S. Markoff and S. Migliari and J. Miller and J. Miller-Jones and J. Poutanen and R. Remillard and D. M. Russell and P. Uttley and A. Zdziarski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.02766},
year = {2015}
}
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White Paper in Support of the Mission Concept of the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing