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 magnetospheres of isolated neutron stars. For a summary, we refer to the paper.
@article{arxiv.1501.02773,
title = {The study of neutron star magnetospheres with LOFT},
author = {R. P. Mignani and F. Bocchino and N. Bucciantini and M. Burgay and G. Cusumano and A. De Luca and P. Esposito and C. Gouiffes and W. Hermsen and G. Kanbach and L. Kuiper and G. L. Israel and M. Marelli and S. Mereghetti and T. Mineo and C. Motch and A. Pellizzoni and A. Possenti and P. S. Ray and N. Rea and B. Rudak and D. Salvetti and A. Shearer and A. Słowikowska and A. Tiengo and R. Turolla and N. Webb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.02773},
year = {2015}
}
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White Paper in Support of the Mission Concept of the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing