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The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing: LOFT

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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
LOFT, the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing, is a new space mission concept devoted to observations of Galactic and extra-Galactic sources in the X-ray domain with the main goals of probing gravity theory in the very strong field environment of black holes (BH) and other compact objects, and investigating the state of matter at supra-nuclear energies in neutron stars (NS). The instruments on-board LOFT, the Large area detector (LAD) and the Wide Field Monitor (WFM) combine for the first time an unprecedented large effective area (~10 m2 at 8 keV) sensitive to X-ray photons in the 2-80 keV energy range and a spectral resolution approaching that of CCD-based telescopes (down to 200 eV at 6 keV). LOFT is currently competing for a launch of opportunity in 2022 together with the other M3 mission candidates of the ESA Cosmic Vision Program.

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Publication title

Proceedings of 9th INTEGRAL Workshop

Volume

8443

Pagination

1-16

ISSN

0277-786X

Department/School

School of Natural Sciences

Publisher

SPIE

Place of publication

Paris, France

Event title

9th INTEGRAL Workshop

Event Venue

Paris, France

Date of Event (Start Date)

2012-10-15

Date of Event (End Date)

2012-10-19

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Expanding knowledge in the physical sciences

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    X-ray timingX-ray spectroscopyX-ray imagingcompact objects

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