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The Wide Field Monitor onboard the eXTP mission

The eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China National Space Administration (CNSA) currently performing an extended phase A study and proposed for a launch by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Hernanz , S. Brandt , M. Feroci , P. Orleanski , A. Santangelo , S. Schanne , Xin Wu , J. in't Zand , S. N. Zhang , Y. P. Xu , E. Bozzo , Y. Evangelista , J. L. Gálvez , C. Tenzer , F. Zwart , F. J. Lu , S. Zhang , T. X. Chen , F. Ambrosino , A. Argan , E. Del Monte , C. Budtz-Jørgensen , N. Lund , P. Olsen , C. Mansanet , R. Campana , F. Fuschino , C. Labanti , A. Rachevski , A. Vacchi , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , I. Rashevskaya , P. Bellutti , G. Borghi , F. Ficorella , A. Picciotto , N. Zorzi , O. Limousin , A. Meuris

eXTP -- enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry Mission

eXTP is a science mission designed to study the state of matter under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. Primary targets include isolated and binary neutron stars, strong magnetic field systems like magnetars, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 S. N. Zhang , M. Feroci , A. Santangelo , Y. W. Dong , H. Feng , F. J. Lu , K. Nandra , Z. S. Wang , S. Zhang , E. Bozzo , S. Brandt , A. De Rosa , L. J. Gou , M. Hernanz , M. van der Klis , X. D. Li , Y. Liu , P. Orleanski , G. Pareschi , M. Pohl , J. Poutanen , J. L. Qu , S. Schanne , L. Stella , P. Uttley , A. Watts , R. X. Xu , W. F. Yu , J. J. M. in 't Zand , S. Zane , L. Alvarez , L. Amati , L. Baldini , C. Bambi , S. Basso , S. Bhattacharyya , R. Bellazzini , T. Belloni , P. Bellutti , S. Bianchi , A. Brez , M. Bursa , V. Burwitz , C. Budtz-Jorgensen , I. Caiazzo , R. Campana , X. L. Cao , P. Casella , C. Y. Chen , L. Chen , T. X. Chen , Y. Chen , Y. Chen , Y. P. Chen , M. Civitani , F. Coti Zelati , W. Cui , W. W. Cui , Z. G. Dai , E. Del Monte , D. De Martino , S. Di Cosimo , S. Diebold , M. Dovciak , I. Donnarumma , V. Doroshenko , P. Esposito , Y. Evangelista , Y. Favre , P. Friedrich , F. Fuschino , J. L. Galvez , Z. L. Gao , M. Y. Ge , O. Gevin , D. Goetz , D. W. Han , J. Heyl , J. Horak , W. Hu , F. Huang , Q. S. Huang , R. Hudec , D. Huppenkothen , G. L. Israel , A. Ingram , V. Karas , D. Karelin , P. A. Jenke , L. Ji , T. Kennedy , S. Korpela , D. Kunneriath , C. Labanti , G. Li , X. Li , Z. S. Li , E. W. Liang , O. Limousin , L. Lin , Z. X. Ling , H. B. Liu , H. W. Liu , Z. Liu , B. Lu , N. Lund , D. Lai , B. Luo , T. Luo , B. Ma , S. Mahmoodifar , M. Marisaldi , A. Martindale , N. Meidinger , Y. P. Men , M. Michalska , R. Mignani , M. Minuti , S. Motta , F. Muleri , J. Neilsen , M. Orlandini , A T. Pan , A. Patruno , E. Perinati , A. Picciotto , C. Piemonte , M. Pinchera , A. Rachevski , M. Rapisarda , N. Rea , E. M. R. Rossi , A. Rubini , G. Sala , X. W. Shu , C. Sgro , Z. X. Shen , P. Soffitta , L. M. Song , G. Spandre , G. Stratta , T. E. Strohmayer , L. Sun , J. Svoboda , G. Tagliaferri , C. Tenzer , H. Tong , R. Taverna , G. Torok , R. Turolla , A. Vacchi , J. Wang , J. X. Wang , D. Walton , K. Wang , J. F. Wang , R. J. Wang , Y. F. Wang , S. S. Weng , J. Wilms , B. Winter , X. Wu , X. F. Wu , S. L. Xiong , Y. P. Xu , Y. Q. Xue , Z. Yan , S. Yang , X. Yang , Y. J. Yang , F. Yuan , W. M. Yuan , Y. F. Yuan , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , A. Zdziarski , C. Zhang , C. L. Zhang , L. Zhang , X. Zhang , Z. Zhang , W. D. Zhang , S. J. Zheng , P. Zhou , X. L. Zhou

The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) of the China-Europe eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission

The eXTP mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with a large involvement of Europe. Its scientific payload includes four instruments: SFA, PFA, LAD and WFM. They offer an unprecedented simultaneous wide-band…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Margarita Hernanz , Marco Feroci , Yuri Evangelista , Aline Meuris , Stéphane Schanne , Gianluigi Zampa , Chris Tenzer , Jörg Bayer , Witold Nowosielski , Malgorzata Michalska , Emrah Kalemci , Müberra Sungur , Søren Brandt , Irfan Kuvvetli , Daniel Alvarez Franco , Alex Carmona , José-Luis Gálvez , Alessandro Patruno , Jean in' t Zand , Frans Zwart , Andrea Santangelo , Enrico Bozzo , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Fangjun Lu , Yupeng Xu , Riccardo Campana , Ettore Del Monte , Francesco Ceraudo , Alessio Nuti , Giovanni Della Casa , Andrea Argan , Gabriele Minervini , Matias Antonelli , Valter Bonvicini , Mirko Boezio , Daniela Cirrincione , Riccardo Munini , Alexandre Rachevski , Andrea Vacchi , Nicola Zampa , Irina Rashevskaya , Francesco Ficorella , Antonino Picciotto , Nicola Zorzi , David Baudin , Florent Bouyjou , Olivier Gevin , Olivier Limousin , Paul Hedderman , Samuel Pliego , Hao Xiong , Rob de la Rie , Phillip Laubert , Gabby Aitink-Kroes , Lucien Kuiper , Piotr Orleanski , Konrad Skup , Denis Tcherniak , Onur Turhan , Ayhan Bozkurt , Ahmet Onat

A Large Area Detector proposed for the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT)

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the four candidate ESA M3 missions considered for launch in the 2022 time-frame. It is specifically designed to perform fast X-ray timing and probe the status of the matter near black…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Zane , D. Walton , T. Kennedy , M. Feroci , J. -W. Den Herder , M. Ahangarianabhari , A. Argan , P. Azzarello , G. Baldazzi , D. Barret , G. Bertuccio , P. Bodini , E. Bozzo , F. Cadoux , P. Cais , R. Campana , J. Coker , A. Cros , E. Del Monte , A. De Rosa , S. Di Cosimo , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , Y. Favre , C. Feldman , G. Fraser , F. Fuschino , M. Grassi , M. R. Hailey , R. Hudec , C. Labanti , D. Macera , P. Malcovati , M. Marisaldi , A. Martindale , T. Mineo , F. Muleri , M. Nowak , M. Orlandini , L. Pacciani , E. Perinati , V. Petracek , M. Pohl , A. Rachevski , P. Smith , A. Santangelo , J. -Y. Seyler , C. Schmid , P. Soffitta , S. Suchy , C. Tenzer , P. Uttley , A. Vacchi , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , J. Wilms , B. Winter

Optimisation of the design for the LOFT Large Area Detector Module

LOFT (Large Observatory for X-ray Timing) is an X-ray timing observatory that, with four other candidates, was considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024) and has been studied during an extensive assessment phase. Its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-29 D. Walton , B. Winter , S. Zane , T. Kennedy , A. J. Coker , M. Feroci , J. -W. Den Herder , A. Argan , P. Azzarello , D. Barret , L. Bradley , F. Cadoux , A. Cros , Y. Evangelista , Y. Favre , G. Fraser , M. R. Hailey , T. Hunt , A. Martindale , F. Muleri , L. Pacciani , M. Pohl , P. Smith , A. Santangelo , S. Suchy , C. Tenzer , G. Zampa , N. Zampa

The Large Area Detector of LOFT: the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing

LOFT (Large Observatory for X-ray Timing) is one of the five candidates that were considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024) and has been studied during an extensive assessment phase. It is specifically designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-29 S. Zane , D. Walton , T. Kennedy , M. Feroci , J. -W. Den Herder , M. Ahangarianabhari , A. Argan , P. Azzarello , G. Baldazzi , M. Barbera , D. Barret , G. Bertuccio , P. Bodin , E. Bozzo , L. Bradley , F. Cadoux , P. Cais , R. Campana , J. Coker , A. Cros , E. Del Monte , A. De Rosa , S. Di Cosimo , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , Y. Favre , C. Feldman , G. Fraser , F. Fuschino , M. Grassi , M. R. Hailey , R. Hudec , C. Labanti , D. Macera , P. Malcovati , M. Marisaldi , A. Martindale , T. Mineo , F. Muleri , M. Nowak , M. Orlandini , L. Pacciani , E. Perinati , V. Petracek , M. Pohl , A. Rachevski , P. Smith , A. Santangelo , J. -Y. Seyler , C. Schmid , P. Soffitta , S. Suchy , C. Tenzer , P. Uttley , A. Vacchi , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , J. Wilms , B. Winter

LOFT - the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing

LOFT (the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing), is a mission concept that was considered by ESA as a candidate for an M3 mission and has been studied during an extended >2-years long assessment phase. The mission was specifically designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Zane

Baseline design of the filters for the LAD detector on board LOFT

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) was one of the M3 missions selected for the phase A study in the ESA's Cosmic Vision program. LOFT is designed to perform high-time-resolution X-ray observations of black holes and neutron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-29 M. Barbera , B. Winter , J. Coker , M. Feroci , T. Kennedy , D. Walton , S. Zane

The on-board data handling concept for the LOFT Large Area Detector

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the four candidate ESA M3 missions considered for launch in the time-frame of 2022. It is specifically designed to perform fast X-ray timing and probe the status of the matter near…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Suchy , P. Uter , C. Tenzer , A. Santangelo , A. Argan , M. Feroci , T. E. Kennedy , P. J. Smith , D. Walton , S. Zane , J. Portell , E. García-Berro

LOFT, the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing

The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing, LOFT, was selected by the European Space Agency as one of the four Cosmic Vision M3 candidate missions to compete for a launch opportunity at the start of the 2020s. Thanks to an innovative design and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 E. Bozzo , J. W. den Herder , M. Feroci , L. Stella

LOFT: the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing

The LOFT mission concept is one of four candidates selected by ESA for the M3 launch opportunity as Medium Size missions of the Cosmic Vision programme. The launch window is currently planned for between 2022 and 2024. LOFT is designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Feroci , J. W. den Herder , E. Bozzo , D. Barret , S. Brandt , M. Hernanz , M. van der Klis , M. Pohl , A. Santangelo , L. Stella , A. Watts , J. Wilms , S. Zane , M. Ahangarianabhari , A. Alpar , D. Altamirano , L. Alvarez , L. Amati , C. Amoros , N. Andersson , A. Antonelli , A. Argan , R. Artigue , P. Azzarello , G. Baldazzi , S. Balman , M. Barbera , T. Belloni , G. Bertuccio , S. Bianchi , A. Bianchini , P. Bodin , J. -M. Bonnet Bidaud , S. Boutloukos , J. Braga , E. Brown , N. Bucciantini , L. Burderi , M. Bursa , C. Budtz-Jørgensen , E. Cackett , F. R. Cadoux , P. Cais , G. A. Caliandro , R. Campana , S. Campana , P. Casella , D. Chakrabarty , J. Chenevez , J. Coker , R. Cole , A. Collura , T. Courvoisier , A. Cros , A. Cumming , G. Cusumano , A. D'Aì , V. D'Elia , E. Del Monte , D. De Martino , A. De Rosa , S. Di Cosimo , S. Diebold , T. Di Salvo , I. Donnarumma , A. Drago , M. Durant , D. Emmanoulopoulos , Y. Evangelista , A. Fabian , M. Falanga , Y. Favre , C. Feldman , C. Ferrigno , M. H. Finger , G. W. Fraser , F. Fuschino , D. K. Galloway , J. L. Galvez Sanchez , E. Garcia-Berro , B. Gendre , S. Gezari , A. B. Giles , M. Gilfanov , P. Giommi , G. Giovannini , M. Giroletti , A. Goldwurm , D. Götz , C. Gouiffes , M. Grassi , P. Groot C. Guidorzi , D. Haas , F. Hansen , D. H. Hartmann , C. A. Haswe , A. Heger , J. Homan , A. Hornstrup , R. Hudec , J. Huovelin , A. Ingram , J. J. M. in't Zand , J. Isern , G. Israe , L. Izzo , P. Jonker , P. Kaaret , V. Karas , D. Karelin , D. Kataria , L. Keek , T. Kennedy , D. Klochkov , W. Kluzniak , K. Kokkotas , S. Korpela , C. Kouveliotou , I. Kreykenbohm , L. M. Kuiper , I. Kuvvetli , C. Labanti , D. Lai , F. K. Lamb , F. Lebrun , D. Lin , D. Linder , G. Lodato , F. Longo , N. Lund , T. J. Maccarone , D. Macera , D. Maier , P. Malcovati , V. Mangano , A. Manousakis , M. Marisaldi , A. Markowitz , A. Martindale , G. Matt , I. M. McHardy , A. Melatos , M. Mendez , S. Migliari , R. Mignani , M. C. Miller , J. M. Miller , T. Mineo , G. Miniutti , S. Morsink , C. Motch , S. Motta , M. Mouchet , F. Muleri , A. J. Norton , M. Nowak , P. O'Brien , M. Orienti , M. Orio , M. Orlandini , P. Orleanski , J. P. Osborne , R. Osten , F. Ozel , L. Pacciani , A. Papitto , B. Paul , E. Perinati , V. Petracek , J. Portell , J. Poutanen , D. Psaltis , D. Rambaud , G. Ramsay , M. Rapisarda , A. Rachevski , P. S. Ray , N. Rea , S. Reddy , P. Reig , M. Reina Aranda , R. Remillard , C. Reynolds , P. Rodríguez-Gil , J. Rodriguez , P. Romano , E. M. R. Rossi , F. Ryde , L. Sabau-Graziati , G. Sala , R. Salvaterra , A. Sanna , S. Schanne , J. Schee , C. Schmid , A. Schwenk , A. D. Schwope , J. -Y. Seyler , A. Shearer , A. Smith , D. M. Smith , P. J. Smith , V. Sochora , P. Soffitta , P. Soleri , B. Stappers , B. Stelzer , N. Stergioulas , G. Stratta , T. E. Strohmayer , Z. Stuchlik , S. Suchy , V. Sulemainov , T. Takahashi , F. Tamburini , C. Tenzer , L. Tolos , G. Torok , J. M. Torrejon , D. F. Torres , A. Tramacere , A. Trois , S. Turriziani , P. Uter , P. Uttley , A. Vacchi , P. Varniere , S. Vaughan , S. Vercellone , V. Vrba , D. Walton , S. Watanabe , R. Wawrzaszek , N. Webb , N. Weinberg , H. Wende , P. Wheatley , R. Wijers , R. Wijnands , M. Wille , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , B. Winter , K. Wood , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , L. Zampieri , A. Zdziarski , B. Zhang

The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission -- eXTP for launch in 2030

In this paper we present the current status of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission, which has been fully approved for launch in 2030. eXTP is a space science mission designed to study fundamental physics under extreme…

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Background simulations for the Large Area Detector onboard LOFT

The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT), currently in an assessment phase in the framework the ESA M3 Cosmic Vision programme, is an innovative medium-class mission specifically designed to answer fundamental questions about the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-03 R. Campana , M. Feroci , E. Del Monte , T. Mineo , N. Lund , G. W. Fraser

Observatory science with eXTP

In this White Paper we present the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for studies related to Observatory Science targets. These include flaring stars, supernova remnants, accreting white dwarfs, low and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Jean J. M. in 't Zand , Enrico Bozzo , Jinlu Qu , Xiang-Dong Li , Lorenzo Amati , Yang Chen , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Stephen A. Drake , Margarita Hernanz , Peter A. Jenke , Thomas J. Maccarone , Simin Mahmoodifar , Domitilla de Martino , Alessandra De Rosa , Elena M. Rossi , Antonia Rowlinson , Gloria Sala , Giulia Stratta , Thomas M. Tauris , Joern Wilms , Xuefeng Wu , Ping Zhou , Iván Agudo , Diego Altamirano , Jean-Luc Atteia , Nils A. Andersson , M. Cristina Baglio , David R. Ballantyne , Altan Baykal , Ehud Behar , Tomaso Belloni , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Stefano Bianchi , Anna Bilous , Pere Blay , João Braga , Søren Brandt , Edward F. Brown , Niccolò Bucciantini , Luciano Burderi , Edward M. Cackett , Riccardo Campana , Sergio Campana , Piergiorgio Casella , Yuri Cavecchi , Frank Chambers , Liang Chen , Yu-Peng Chen , Jérôme Chenevez , Maria Chernyakova , Jin Chichuan , Riccardo Ciolfi , Elisa Costantini , Andrew Cumming , Antonino D'Aı , Zi-Gao Dai , Filippo D'Ammando , Massimiliano De Pasquale , Nathalie Degenaar , Melania Del Santo , Valerio D'Elia , Tiziana Di Salvo , Gerry Doyle , Maurizio Falanga , Xilong Fan , Robert D. Ferdman , Marco Feroci , Federico Fraschetti , Duncan K. Galloway , Angelo F. Gambino , Poshak Gandhi , Mingyu Ge , Bruce Gendre , Ramandeep Gill , Diego Götz , Christian Gouiffès , Paola Grandi , Jonathan Granot , Manuel Güdel , Alexander Heger , Craig O. Heinke , Jeroen Homan , Rosario Iaria , Kazushi Iwasawa , Luca Izzo , Long Ji , Peter G. Jonker , Jordi José , Jelle S. Kaastra , Emrah Kalemci , Oleg Kargaltsev , Nobuyuki Kawai , Laurens Keek , Stefanie Komossa , Ingo Kreykenbohm , Lucien Kuiper , Devaky Kunneriath , Gang Li , En-Wei Liang , Manuel Linares , Francesco Longo , Fangjun Lu , Alexander A. Lutovinov , Denys Malyshev , Julien Malzac , Antonios Manousakis , Ian McHardy , Missagh Mehdipour , Yunpeng Men , Mariano Méndez , Roberto P. Mignani , Romana Mikusincova , M. Coleman Miller , Giovanni Miniutti , Christian Motch , Joonas Nättilä , Emanuele Nardini , Torsten Neubert , Paul T. O'Brien , Mauro Orlandini , Julian P. Osborne , Luigi Pacciani , Stéphane Paltani , Maurizio Paolillo , Iossif E. Papadakis , Biswajit Paul , Alberto Pellizzoni , Uria Peretz , Miguel A. Pérez Torres , Emanuele Perinati , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Pablo Reig , Alessandro Riggio , Jerome Rodriguez , Pablo Rodrıguez-Gil , Patrizia Romano , Agata Różańska , Takanori Sakamoto , Tuomo Salmi , Ruben Salvaterra , Andrea Sanna , Andrea Santangelo , Tuomas Savolainen , Stéphane Schanne , Hendrik Schatz , Lijing Shao , Andy Shearer , Steven N. Shore , Ben W. Stappers , Tod E. Strohmayer , Valery F. Suleimanov , Jirı Svoboda , F. -K. Thielemann , Francesco Tombesi , Diego F. Torres , Eleonora Torresi , Sara Turriziani , Andrea Vacchi , Stefano Vercellone , Jacco Vink , Jian-Min Wang , Junfeng Wang , Anna L. Watts , Shanshan Weng , Nevin N. Weinberg , Peter J. Wheatley , Rudy Wijnands , Tyrone E. Woods , Stan E. Woosley , Shaolin Xiong , Yupeng Xu , Zhen Yan , George Younes , Wenfei Yu , Feng Yuan , Luca Zampieri , Silvia Zane , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Shu Zhang , Shuo Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Michael Zingale

LOFT - a Large Observatory For x-ray Timing

The high time resolution observations of the X-ray sky hold the key to a number of diagnostics of fundamental physics, some of which are unaccessible to other types of investigations, such as those based on imaging and spectroscopy.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Feroci , L. Stella , A. Vacchi , C. Labanti , M. Rapisarda , P. Attinà , T. Belloni , R. Campana , S. Campana , E. Costa , E. Del Monte , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , G. L. Israel , F. Muleri , P. Porta , A. Rashevsky , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , G. Baldazzi , G. Bertuccio , V. Bonvicini , E. Bozzo , L. Burderi , A. Corongiu , S. Covino , S. Dall'Osso , D. De Martino , S. Di Cosimo , G. Di Persio , T. Di Salvo , F. Fuschino , M. Grassi , F. Lazzarotto , P. Malcovati , M. Marisaldi , M. Mastropietro , S. Mereghetti , E. Morelli , M. Orio , A. Pellizzoni , L. Pacciani , A. Papitto , L. Picolli , A. Possenti , A. Rubini , P. Soffitta , R. Turolla , L. Zampieri

LOFT: Large Observatory For X-ray Timing

High-time-resolution X-ray observations of compact objects provide direct access to strong field gravity, black hole masses and spins, and the equation of state of ultra-dense matter. LOFT, the large observatory for X-ray timing, is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. P. Mignani , S. Zane , D. Walton , T. Kennedy , B. Winter , P. Smith , R. Cole , D. Kataria , A. Smith

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT)

High-time-resolution X-ray observations of compact objects provide direct access to strong-field gravity, to the equation of state of ultra-dense matter and to black hole masses and spins. A 10 m^2-class instrument in combination with good…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Feroci , the LOFT Consortium

Observatory Science with eXTP

Scheduled for launch in 2030, the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarization (eXTP) telescope is a Chinese space-based mission aimed at studying extreme conditions and phenomena in astrophysics. eXTP will feature three main payloads:…

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LOFT (Large Observatory For X-ray Timing): a candidate X-ray mission for the next decade

LOFT is one of the four medium mission candidates (M3), selected by ESA in the framework of the Cosmic Vision Programme (2015-2025), for feasibility study. If approved by ESA in 2014, its launch is foreseen in 2022-2024. LOFT is being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Hernanz

Instrumental and scientific simulations of the LOFT Wide Field Monitor

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the five candidates that were considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024). It is specifically designed to exploit the diagnostics of very rapid X-ray flux and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-29 Y. Evangelista , I. Donnarumma , R. Campana , C. Schmid , M. Feroci