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LOFT - The large observatory for x-ray timing

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posted on 2023-05-23, 11:14 authored by Feroci, M, Den Herder, JW, Bozzo, E, Barret, D, Brandt, S, Hernanz, M, Van Der Klis, M, Pohl, M, Santangelo, A, Stella, L, Watts, A, Wilms, J, Zane, S, Ahangarianabhari, M, Alpar, A, Altamirano, D, Alvarez, L, Amati, L, Amoros, C, Andersson, N, Antonelli, A, Argan, A, Artigue, R, Azzarello, P, Baldazzi, G, Balman, S, Barbera, M, Belloni, T, Bertuccio, G, Bianchi, S, Bianchini, A, Bodin, P, Bidaud, JMB, Boutloukos, S, Braga, J, Brown, E, Bucciantini, N, Burderi, L, Bursa, M, Budtz-JA rgensen, C, Cackett, E, Cadoux, FR, Cais, P, Caliandro, GA, Campana, R, Campana, S, Casella, P, Chakrabarty, D, Chenevez, J, Coker, J, Cole, R, Collura, A, Courvoisier, T, Cros, A, Cumming, A, Cusumano, G, D'AA, A, D'Elia, V, Del Monte, E, De Martino, D, De Rosa, A, Di Cosimo, S, Diebold, S, Di, S, Donnarumma, I, Drago, A, Durant, M, Emmanoulopoulos, D, Evangelista, Y, Fabian, A, Falanga, M, Favre, Y, Feldman, C, Ferrigno, C, Finger, MH, Fraser, GW, Fuschino, F, Galloway, DK, Sanchez, JLG, Garcia-Berro, E, Gendre, B, Gezari, S, Alan Giles, Gilfanov, M, Giommi, P, Giovannini, G, Giroletti, M, Goldwurm, A, Gotz, D, Gouiffes, C, Grassi, M, Groot, P, Guidorzi, C, Haas, D, Hansen, F, Hartmann, DH, Haswell, C, Heger, A, Henning, W, Homan, J, Hornstrup, A, Hudec, R, Huovelin, J, Ingram, A, in 't Zand, JJM, Isern, J, Israel, G, Izzo, L, Jonker, P, Kaaret, P, Karas, V, Karelin, D, Kataria, D, Keek, L, Kennedy, T, Klochkov, D, Kluzniak, W, Kokkotas, K, Korpela, S, Kouveliotou, C, Kreykenbohm, I, Kuiper, LM, Kuvvetli, I, Labanti, C, Lai, D, Lamb, FK, Lebrun, F, Linder, D, Lodato, G, Longo, F, Lund, N, Maccarone, TJ, Macera, D, Malcovati, P, Mangano, V, Manousakis, A, Marisaldi, M, Markowitz, A, Martindale, A, Matt, G, McHardy, IM, Melatos, A, Mendez, M, Migliari, S, Mignani, R, Miller, C, Miller, JM, Mineo, T, Miniutti, G, Morsink, S, Motch, C, Motta, S, Mouchet, M, Muleri, F, Norton, AJ, Nowak, M, O'Brien, P, Orienti, M, Orio, M, Orlandini, M, Orleaski, P, Osborne, J, Osten, R, Ozel, F, Pacciani, L, Papitto, A, Paul, B, Perinati, E, Petracek, V, Portell, J, Poutanen, J, Psaltis, D, Rambaud, D, Ramsay, G, Rapisarda, M, Rachevski, A, Ray, P, Rea, N, Reddy, S, Reig, P, Reina Aranda, M, Remillard, R, Rodriguez-Gil, P, Rodriguez, J, Romano, P, Rossi, EMR, Ryde, F, Sabau Graziati, MD, Sala, G, Salvaterra, R, Sanna, A, Schanne, S, Schanz, T, Schee, J, Schmid, C, Schwenk, A, Schwope, AD, Seyler, JY, Shearer, A, Smith, A, Smith, D, Smith, PJ, Sochora, V, Soffitta, P, Soleri, P, Stappers, B, Stelzer, B, Stergioulas, N, Stratta, G, Strohmayer, TE, Stuchlik, Z, Suchy, S, Sulemainov, V, Takahashi, T, Tamburini, F, Tenzer, C, Tolos, L, Torok, G, Torrejon, JM, Torres, DF, Tramacere, A, Trois, A, Turriziani, S, Uter, P, Uttley, P, Vacchi, A, Varniere, P, Vaughan, S, Vercellone, S, Vrba, V, Walton, D, Watanabe, S, Wawrzaszek, R, Webb, N, Weinberg, N, Wheatley, S, Wijers, R, Wijnands, RAD, Wille, M, Wilson-Hodge, C, Winter, B, Wood, K, Zampa, G, Zampa, N, Zampieri, L, Zdziarski, A, Zhang, B

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 exploit the diagnostics of rapid X-ray flux and spectral variability that directly probe the motion of matter down to distances very close to black holes and neutron stars, as well as the physical state of ultradense matter. These primary science goals will be addressed by a payload composed of a Large Area Detector (LAD) and a Wide Field Monitor (WFM). The LAD is a collimated (<1 degree field of view) experiment operating in the energy range 2-50 keV, with a 10 m2 peak effective area and an energy resolution of 260 eV at 6 keV. The WFM will operate in the same energy range as the LAD, enabling simultaneous monitoring of a few-steradian wide field of view, with an angular resolution of <5 arcmin. The LAD and WFM experiments will allow us to investigate variability from submillisecond QPO’s to yearlong transient outbursts. In this paper we report the current status of the project.

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Publication title

Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray

Volume

8443

Editors

T Takahashi, S Murray, J den Herder

Pagination

1-16

ISSN

0277-786X

Department/School

School of Natural Sciences

Publisher

SPIE

Place of publication

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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The International Society for Optical Engineering

Event Venue

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Date of Event (Start Date)

2012-07-01

Date of Event (End Date)

2012-07-01

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    X-ray timingX-ray spectroscopyX-ray imagingcompact objects

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