LOFT - The large observatory for x-ray timing

M Feroci; JW 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; JMB Bidaud; S Boutloukos; J Braga; E Brown; N Bucciantini; L Burderi; M Bursa; C Budtz-Jørgensen; E Cackett; FR Cadoux; P Cais; GA 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'Aí; V D'Elia; E Del Monte; D De Martino; A De Rosa; S Di Cosimo; S Diebold; S Di; I Donnarumma; A Drago; M Durant; D Emmanoulopoulos; Y Evangelista; A Fabian; M Falanga; Y Favre; C Feldman; C Ferrigno; MH Finger; GW Fraser; F Fuschino; DK Galloway; JLG Sanchez; E Garcia-Berro; B Gendre; S Gezari; AB 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; DH Hartmann; CA Haswell; A Heger; J Homan; A Hornstrup

Conference Proceedings

LOFT - The large observatory for x-ray timing

M Feroci, JW 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 Show all

Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1117/12.926310

Abstract

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..

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Funding Acknowledgements

[ "The LOFT Consortium is grateful to the ESA Study Team and CDF Team for their professional and effective support to the study of the mission.", "The Italian team is grateful for support by ASI (under contract I/021/12/0-186/12), INAF and INFN. The work of the MSSL and Leicester groups is supported by the UK Space Agency. The work of SRON is funded by the Dutch national science foundation (NWO). The work of the group at the University of Geneva is supported by the Swiss Space Office. The work of IAAT on LOFT is supported by the Germanys national research center for aeronautics and space DRL. The work of the IRAP group is supported by the French Space Agency. LOFT work at ECAP is supported by DLR under grant number 50 00 1111." ]