The Large Area Detector of LOFT: the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing

Autor: Zane, S., Walton, D., Kennedy, T., Feroci, M., Herder, J. -W. Den, Ahangarianabhari, M., Argan, A., Azzarello, P., Baldazzi, G., Barbera, M., Barret, D., Bertuccio, G., Bodin, P., Bozzo, E., Bradley, L., Cadoux, F., Cais, P., Campana, R., Coker, J., Cros, A., Del Monte, E., De Rosa, A., Di Cosimo, S., Donnarumma, I., Evangelista, Y., Favre, Y., Feldman, C., Fraser, G., Fuschino, F., Grassi, M., Hailey, M. R., Hudec, R., Labanti, C., Macera, D., Malcovati, P., Marisaldi, M., Martindale, A., Mineo, T., Muleri, F., Nowak, M., Orlandini, M., Pacciani, L., Perinati, E., Petracek, V., Pohl, M., Rachevski, A., Smith, P., Santangelo, A., Seyler, J. -Y., Schmid, C., Soffitta, P., Suchy, S., Tenzer, C., Uttley, P., Vacchi, A., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Wilms, J., Winter, B.

LOFT (Large Observatory for X-ray Timing) is one of the five candidates that were considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024) and has been studied during an extensive assessment phase. It is specifically designed to perform fast X-r

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6539

The digital data processing concepts of the LOFT mission

Autor: Tenzer, C., Argan, A., Cros, A., Favre, Y., Gschwender, M., Jetter, F., Santangelo, A., Schanne, S., Smith, P., Suchy, S., Uter, P., Walton, D., Wende, H.

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the five mission candidates that were considered by ESA for an M3 mission (with a launch opportunity in 2022 - 2024). LOFT features two instruments: the Large Area Detector (LAD) and the Wide Fi

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6537

The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing

Autor: Feroci, M., Herder, J. W. den, 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., Albertus, C., Alford, M., Alpar, A., Altamirano, D., Alvarez, L., Amati, L., Amoros, C., Andersson, N., Antonelli, A., Argan, A., Artigue, R., Artigues, B., Atteia, J. -L., Azzarello, P., Bakala, P., Baldazzi, G., Balman, S., Barbera, M., van Baren, C., Bhattacharyya, S., Baykal, A., Belloni, T., Bernardini, F., Bertuccio, G., Bianchi, S., Bianchini, A., Binko, P., Blay, P., Bocchino, F., Bodin, P., Bombaci, I., Bidaud, J. -M. Bonnet, Boutloukos, S., Bradley, L., Braga, J., Brown, E., Bucciantini, N., Burderi, L., Burgay, M., Bursa, M., Budtz-Jørgensen, C., Cackett, E., Cadoux, F. R., Cais, P., Caliandro, G. A., Campana, R., Campana, S., Capitanio, F., Casares, J., Casella, P., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Cavazzuti, E., Cerda-Duran, P., Chakrabarty, D., Château, F., Chenevez, J., Coker, J., Cole, R., Collura, A., Cornelisse, R., Courvoisier, T., Cros, A., Cumming, A., Cusumano, G., D'Aì, A., D'Elia, V., Del Monte, E., De Luca, A., De Martino, D., Dercksen, J. P. C., De Pasquale, M., De Rosa, A., Del Santo, M., Di Cosimo, S., Diebold, S., Di Salvo, T., Donnarumma, I., Drago, A., Durant, M., Emmanoulopoulos, D., Erkut, M. H., Esposito, P., Evangelista, Y., Fabian, A., Falanga, M., Favre, Y., Feldman, C., Ferrari, V., Ferrigno, C., Finger, M., Finger, M. H., Fraser, G. W., Frericks, M., Fuschino, F., Gabler, M., Galloway, D. K., Sanchez, J. L. Galvez, Garcia-Berro, E., Gendre, B., Gezari, S., Giles, A. B., Gilfanov, M., Giommi, P., Giovannini, G., Giroletti, M., Gogus, E., Goldwurm, A., Goluchová, K., Götz, D., Gouiffes, C., Grassi, M., Groot, P., Gschwender, M., Gualtieri, L., Guidorzi, C., Guy, L., Haas, D., Haensel, P., Hailey, M., Hansen, F., Hartmann, D. H., Haswell, C. A., Hebeler, K., Heger, A., Hermsen, W., Homan, J., Hornstrup, A., Hudec, R., Huovelin, J., Ingram, A., Zand, J. J. M. in't, Israel, G., Iwasawa, K., Izzo, L., Jacobs, H. M., Jetter, F., Johannsen, T., Jonker, P., Josè, J., Kaaret, P., Kanbach, G., Karas, V., Karelin, D., Kataria, D., Keek, L., Kennedy, T., Klochkov, D., Kluzniak, W., Kokkotas, K., Korpela, S., Kouveliotou, C., Kreykenbohm, I., Kuiper, L. M., Kuvvetli, I., Labanti, C., Lai, D., Lamb, F. K., Laubert, P. P., Lebrun, F., Lin, D., Linder, D., Lodato, G., Longo, F., Lund, N., Maccarone, T. J., Macera, D., Maestre, S., Mahmoodifar, S., Maier, D., Malcovati, P., Mandel, I., Mangano, V., Manousakis, A., Marisaldi, M., Markowitz, A., Martindale, A., Matt, G., McHardy, I. M., Melatos, A., Mendez, M., Mereghetti, S., Michalska, M., Migliari, S., Mignani, R., Miller, M. C., Miller, J. M., Mineo, T., Miniutti, G., Morsink, S., Motch, C., Motta, S., Mouchet, M., Mouret, G., Mulačová, J., Muleri, F., Muñoz-Darias, T., Negueruela, I., Neilsen, J., Norton, A. J., Nowak, M., O'Brien, P., Olsen, P. E. H., Orienti, M., Orio, M., Orlandini, M., Orleanski, P., Osborne, J. P., Osten, R., Ozel, F., Pacciani, L., Paolillo, M., Papitto, A., Paredes, J. M., Patruno, A., Paul, B., Perinati, E., Pellizzoni, A., Penacchioni, A. V., Perez, M. A., Petracek, V., Pittori, C., Pons, J., Portell, J., Possenti, A., Poutanen, J., Prakash, M., Provost, P. Le, Psaltis, D., Rambaud, D., Ramon, P., Ramsay, G., Rapisarda, M., Rachevski, A., Rashevskaya, I., Ray, P. S., Rea, N., Reddy, S., Reig, P., Aranda, M. Reina, Remillard, R., Reynolds, C., Rezzolla, L., Ribo, M., de la Rie, R., Riggio, A., Rios, A., Gil, P. Rodríguez, Rodriguez, J., Rohlfs, R., Romano, P., Rossi, E. M. R., Rozanska, A., Rousseau, A., Ryde, F., Sabau-Graziati, L., Sala, G., Salvaterra, R., Sanna, A., Sandberg, J., Scaringi, S., Schanne, S., Schee, J., Schmid, C., Shore, S., Schneider, R., Schwenk, A., Schwope, A. D., Seyler, J. -Y., Shearer, A., Smith, A., Smith, D. M., Smith, P. J., Sochora, V., Soffitta, P., Soleri, P., Spencer, A., Stappers, B., Steiner, A. W., Stergioulas, N., Stratta, G., Strohmayer, T. E., Stuchlik, Z., Suchy, S., Sulemainov, V., Takahashi, T., Tamburini, F., Tauris, T., Tenzer, C., Tolos, L., Tombesi, F., Tomsick, J., Torok, G., Torrejon, J. M., Torres, D. F., Tramacere, A., Trois, A., Turolla, R., 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., Wende, H., Wheatley, P., Wijers, R., Wijnands, R., Wille, M., Wilson-Hodge, C. A., Winter, B., Wood, K., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Zampieri, L., Zdunik, L., Zdziarski, A., Zhang, B., Zwart, F., Ayre, M., Boenke, T., van Damme, C. Corral, Kuulkers, E., Lumb, D.

The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) was studied within ESA M3 Cosmic Vision framework and participated in the final down-selection for a launch slot in 2022-2024. Thanks to the unprecedented combination of effective area and spectral resolu

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6526

The on-board data handling concept for the LOFT Large Area Detector

Autor: Suchy, S., Uter, P., Tenzer, C., Santangelo, A., Argan, A., Feroci, M., Kennedy, T. E., Smith, P. J., Walton, D., Zane, S., Portell, J., García-Berro, E.

The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) is one of the four candidate ESA M3 missions considered for launch in the time-frame of 2022. It is specifically designed to perform fast X-ray timing and probe the status of the matter near black holes a

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1844

Simulations of the X-ray imaging capabilities of the Silicon Drift Detectors (SDD) for the LOFT Wide Field Monitor

Autor: Evangelista, Y., Campana, R., Del Monte, E., Donnarumma, I., Feroci, M., Muleri, F., Pacciani, L., Soffitta, P., Rachevski, A., Vacchi, A., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Suchy, S., Brandt, S., Budtz-Jørgensen, C., Hernanz, M.

The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT), selected by ESA as one of the four Cosmic Vision M3 candidate missions to undergo an assessment phase, will revolutionize the study of compact objects in our galaxy and of the brightest supermassive blac

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1501