Title: | The LOFT mission concept: a status update |
Authors: | FEROCI, MARCO Bozzo, E. Brandt, S. Hernanz, M. van der Klis, M. Liu, L. -P. Orleanski, P. Pohl, M. Santangelo, A. Schanne, S. STELLA, Luigi Linares, M. MULERI, FABIO D'Elia, V. Linder, D. Lodato, G. Xu, R. Longo, F. Lu, F. Ribo, M. Kanbach, G. Goldwurm, A. DE LUCA, Andrea Alvarez, L. Lund, N. Maccarone, T. J. Macera, D. Maestre, S. Takahashi, T. Yu, W. Mahmoodifar, S. Dai, Z. Keek, L. Barbera, Marco Maier, D. Malcovati, P. Strohmayer, T. E. de la Rie, R. Malzac, J. Malone, C. Mandel, I. AMATI, LORENZO Behar, O. Zhang, S. -N. MANGANO, VALERIA Wijers, R. Manousakis, A. Muñoz-Darias, T. MARELLI, MARTINO Margueron, J. Stuchlik, Z. DEL MONTE, Ettore Riggio, A. Marisaldi, M. Goluchová, K. Negueruela, I. Michalska, M. DE MARTINO, Domitilla Neilsen, J. Neubert, T. Norton, A. J. Nowak, M. Nucita, A. O'Brien, P. Doroshenko, V. Götz, D. Hermsen, W. Oertel, M. den Herder, J. W. Cavazzuti, E. Yuan, F. ARGAN, ANDREA Dercksen, J. P. C. Olsen, P. E. H. ORIENTI, Monica ORIO, Marina Staubert, R. ORLANDINI, MAURO Osborne, J. P. van Baren, C. Osten, R. Cavechi, Y. Ozel, F. Yuan, W. Homan, J. Marinucci, A. PACCIANI, LUIGI Gou, L. Paerels, F. Paltani, S. De Pasquale, M. Artigue, R. Paolillo, M. Celestin, S. Suchy, S. Papadakis, I. Smith, P. J. PAPITTO, ALESSANDRO Gouiffes, C. Paragi, Z. Paredes, J. M. Rios, A. Hornstrup, A. Patruno, A. Paul, B. Cerda-Duran, P. Pederiva, F. Perinati, E. Suleimanov, V. Mouchet, M. Huppenkothen, D. DE ROSA, ALESSANDRA PELLIZZONI, ALBERTO PAOLO Artigues, B. Penacchioni, A. V. Peretz, U. Cumming, A. Chakrabarty, D. Perez, M. A. Hudec, R. Enoto, T. Perez-Torres, M. Peterson, B. M. Yuan, Y. Tamburini, F. Petracek, V. PITTORI, Carlotta Pons, J. DEL SANTO, MELANIA Falanga, M. Portell, J. CAMPANA, Sergio POSSENTI, ANDREA Rischke, D. H. Atteia, J. -L. Postnov, K. Zampa, G. Huovelin, J. Tauris, T. Poutanen, J. Rodríguez-Gil, P. Ray, P. S. Ahangarianabhari, M. Rodriguez, J. Rohlfs, R. Ballantyne, D. ROMANO, Patrizia Rossi, E. M. R. Rozanska, A. Jonker, P. Martindale, A. Rousseau, A. Jacobs, H. M. GRANDI, PAOLA Chamel, N. Diebold, S. Inam, S. C. Rudak, B. Russell, D. M. Ryde, F. Sabau-Graziati, L. Sakamoto, T. Erkut, M. H. Sala, G. Grassi, M. Baldazzi, G. Château, F. Martínez, G. Le Provost, H. SALVATERRA, Ruben Salvetti, D. SANNA, ALBERTO Ingram, A. Di Salvo, T. Sandberg, J. Greiner, J. Zampa, N. Savolainen, T. Behar, E. Scaringi, S. Schaffner-Bielich, J. Schatz, H. TAVECCHIO, Fabrizio Amoros, C. Schee, J. Schmid, C. Grinberg, V. Baldo, M. Serino, M. ZAMPIERI, Luca Mehdipour, M. In't Zand, J. J. M. Shakura, N. Dong, Y. Shore, S. Schnittman, J. D. Hebeler, K. Groot, P. SCHNEIDER, RAFFAELLA McHardy, I. M. Schwenk, A. Schwope, A. D. Chen, C. Zdunik, L. Sedrakian, A. Seyler, J. -Y. Shearer, A. ISRAEL, Gian Luca Alford, M. Balman, S. Slowikowska, A. Tenzer, C. Tamura, H. Sims, M. Chen, Y. Medina-Tanco, G. Zdziarski, A. Smith, A. Thielemann, F. K. Steiner, A. W. Tiengo, A. Tolos, L. Doyle, G. Tombesi, Francesco Barret, D. Tomsick, J. MINEO, TERESA Psaltis, D. Torok, G. Mihara, T. Gschwender, M. Jetter, F. Melatos, A. Torrejon, J. M. Torres, D. F. TORRESI, ELEONORA Tramacere, A. Traulsen, I. Karas, V. TROIS, ALESSIO Drake, S. A. Bhattacharyya, S. Pye, J. Sobolewska, M. Turolla, R. Turriziani, S. Baykal, A. Mendez, M. Johannsen, T. Typel, S. Chenevez, J. Uter, P. Fabian, A. Uttley, P. Vacchi, A. Varniere, P. Zech, A. Di Cosimo, S. Vaughan, S. VERCELLONE, STEFANO Durant, M. Vietri, M. Chernyakova, M. Ramon, P. MEREGHETTI, Sandro Vincent, F. H. Jenke, P. A. Vrba, V. Begelman, M. Markoff, S. B. Walton, D. Qu, J. Wang, J. Wang, Z. Gualtieri, L. Coker, J. Watanabe, S. Wawrzaszek, R. Webb, N. Migliari, S. Emmanoulopoulos, D. Weinberg, N. Zhang, B. CUSUMANO, GIANCARLO Wende, H. Guedel, M. Rambaud, D. Cole, R. Wheatley, P. BELLONI, Tomaso Maria Melchiorre Zhang, C. Zhang, S. Josè, J. Zingale, M. Esposito, P. Zwart, F. Reina Aranda, M. Sochora, V. BERNARDINI, Federico Rea, N. Andersson, N. Azzarello, P. Bertuccio, G. Bianchi, S. Bianchini, A. Binko, P. Blay, P. Mouret, G. BOCCHINO, Fabrizio Kaaret, P. SOFFITTA, PAOLO Wijnands, R. Bode, M. Bodin, P. EVANGELISTA, YURI Ramsay, G. Miller, M. C. Bombaci, I. Guidorzi, C. Bonnet Bidaud, J. -M. Boutloukos, S. Bouyjou, F. Bradley, L. COLLURA, Alfonso Iwasawa, K. Braga, J. Briggs, M. S. Kalamkar, K. Brown, E. Guy, L. Rapisarda, M. Buballa, M. Miller, J. M. BUCCIANTINI, NICCOLO' Watts, A. Prakash, M. Burderi, L. Soleri, P. BURGAY, MARTA Bursa, M. Haas, D. Budtz-Jørgensen, C. Cackett, E. Cadoux, F. Rashevski, A. Kalemci, E. Cais, P. Coriat, M. Heger, A. Caliandro, G. A. Song, L. Haensel, P. CAMPANA, RICCARDO Favre, Y. Cornelisse, R. Costamante, L. Miniutti, G. Cros, A. Karelin, D. Cui, W. Wille, M. Feldman, C. Stergioulas, N. Degenaar, N. Donnarumma, I. Fender, R. Feng, H. Ferrari, V. Ferrigno, C. Finger, M. Finger, M. H. Morsink, S. Wilson-Hodge, C. A. Cao, X. Wilms, J. Fraser, G. W. Kataria, D. Spencer, A. Reddy, S. Frericks, M. Fullekrug, M. FUSCHINO, FABIO Gabler, M. Galloway, D. K. Hailey, M. MIGNANI, Roberto Gálvez Sanchez, J. L. Gandhi, P. Motch, C. Gao, Z. STAMERRA, Antonio Garcia-Berro, E. Reig, P. Zane, S. Czerny, B. Smith, D. M. Gendre, B. Winter, B. Gevin, O. Gezari, S. Giles, A. B. Gilfanov, M. Giommi, P. Stappers, B. Motta, S. Giovannini, Gabriele Hamuguchi, K. Markowitz, A. GIROLETTI, MARCELLO Walk, S. J. Gogus, E. Kennedy, T. Hansen, F. Hartmann, D. H. Remillard, R. Agudo, I. Mulačová, J. Haswell, C. A. CAPITANIO, FIAMMA Klochkov, D. Izzo, L. Albertus, C. Kluzniak, W. Koerding, E. Kokkotas, K. Komossa, S. Korpela, S. Kouveliotou, C. Bakala, P. Casares, J. D'AI', ANTONINO Kowalski, A. F. Antonelli, A. Wood, K. Stevens, A. L. Kreykenbohm, I. Alpar, A. Kuiper, L. M. Kunneriath, D. Kurkela, A. Rashevskaya, I. Kuvvetli, I. La Franca, F. Reynolds, C. LABANTI, CLAUDIO Woosley, S. E. Lai, D. Stratta, G. D'AMMANDO, FILIPPO Hempel, M. Lamb, F. K. CASELLA, Piergiorgio Lachaud, C. Laubert, P. P. Altamirano, D. Lebrun, F. Li, X. Wu, X. Rezzolla, L. Liang, E. PRANDONI, ISABELLA Limousin, O. Castro-Tirado, A. J. Lin, D. |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Volume: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
Editors: | den Herder, Jan-Willem A.; Takahashi, Tadayuki; Bautz, Marshall |
Series: | PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE |
Number: | 9905 |
First Page: | 99051R |
Abstract: | The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) is a mission concept which was proposed to ESA as M3 and M4 candidate in the framework of the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program. Thanks to the unprecedented combination of effective area and spectral resolution of its main instrument and the uniquely large field of view of its wide field monitor, LOFT will be able to study the behaviour of matter in extreme conditions such as the strong gravitational field in the innermost regions close to black holes and neutron stars and the supra-nuclear densities in the interiors of neutron stars. The science payload is based on a Large Area Detector (LAD, >8m<SUP>2</SUP> effective area, 2-30 keV, 240 eV spectral resolution, 1 degree collimated field of view) and a Wide Field Monitor (WFM, 2-50 keV, 4 steradian field of view, 1 arcmin source location accuracy, 300 eV spectral resolution). The WFM is equipped with an on-board system for bright events (e.g., GRB) localization. The trigger time and position of these events are broadcast to the ground within 30 s from discovery. In this paper we present the current technical and programmatic status of the mission. |
Conference Name: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
Conference Place: | Edinburgh, UK |
Conference Date: | 26 June-1 July, 2016 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/25144 |
URL: | https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/9905/1/The-LOFT-mission-concept-a-status-update/10.1117/12.2233161.full?SSO=1 |
ISSN: | 0277-786X |
ISBN: | 9781510601895 |
DOI: | 10.1117/12.2233161 |
Bibcode ADS: | 2016SPIE.9905E..1RF |
Fulltext: | open |
Appears in Collections: | 3.01 Contributi in Atti di convegno
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