The STROBE-X Wide Field Monitor Instrument
Abstract
The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) is one of the three instruments on the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) mission, which was proposed in response to the NASA 2023 call for a probe class mission. The WFM is a coded-mask camera system that would be the most scientifically capable wide-angle monitor ever flown. The field of view covers one third of the sky, to 50 percent mask coding, and the energy sensitivity is 2 to 50 keV. The WFM is designed to identify new X-ray transients and to capture spectral and timing changes in known sources with data of unprecedented quality. Science applications cover diverse classes, in including X-ray bursts that coincide with gravitational wave detections, gamma ray bursts and their transition from prompt emission to afterglow, subluminous GRBs that may signal shock breakout in supernovae, state transitions in accreting compact objects and their jets, bright flares in fast X-ray transients, accretion onset in transitional pulsars, and coronal flares from many types of active stars.
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@article{arxiv.2410.12015,
title = {The STROBE-X Wide Field Monitor Instrument},
author = {Ronald A. Remillard and Margarita Hernanz and Jean in 't Zand and Paul S. Ray and Valter Bonvicini and Søren Brandt and Terri Brandt and Alex Carmona and Yuri Evangelista and Daniel Alvarez Franco and Cynthia Froning and Jose-Luis Galvez and Gianluigi De Geronimo and Martin Grim and Emrah Kalemci and Lucien Kuiper and Irfan Kuvvetli and Thomas J. Maccarone and Witold Nowosielski and Dheeraj R. R. Pasham and Alessandro Patruno and Steven C. Persyn and Peter W. A. Roming and Andrea Santangelo and Stephane Schanne and Christoph Tenzer and Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge and Gianluigi Zampa and Frans Zwart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.12015},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
19 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in JATIS