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LOFT - the Large Observatory For x-ray Timing

SCHEE, Jan, Zdeněk STUCHLÍK, Gabriel TÖRÖK a M. FEROCI

Základní údaje

Originální název

LOFT - the Large Observatory For x-ray Timing

Vydání

USA, Space telescopes and instrumentation 2012: ultraviolet to gamma ray, od s. 415-444, 16 s. 2012

Nakladatel

SPIE-INT Soc Optical Engineering

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Obor

10308 Astronomy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organizační jednotka

Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta v Opavě

ISBN

978-0-8194-9144-2

ISSN

UT WoS

000312391600064

Klíčová slova anglicky

X-ray timing; X-ray spectroscopy; X-ray imaging; Compact objects

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam
Změněno: 7. 12. 2020 13:16, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Anotace

V originále

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 m(2) peak effective area and an energy resolution of 260eV 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 investig