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The LOFT mission concept: a status update

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • Contributors:
      Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York (MSSM); Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick (RU); Rutgers University System (Rutgers); Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen (IAAT); Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen = Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen; Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)); Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche; Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Roma = University of Rome Tor Vergata; Graduate School of the Natural Science and Technology Kanazawa; Kanazawa University (KU); Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek (AI PANNEKOEK); University of Amsterdam Amsterdam = Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA); Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille (CINaM); Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Tampere University of Technology Tampere (TUT); University of Maryland College Park; University of Maryland System; School of Physics and Astronomy Southampton; University of Southampton; Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano (IASF-MI); Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF); Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF (IAPS); Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (LATT); Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3); Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP); Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3); Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP); Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala (IRF); INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB); Department of Computer Sciences Scheffield; University of Sheffield Sheffield; Colgate University; Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF); Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Palermo (IASF-Pa); ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (ARC CEED); The University of Western Australia (UWA)-Australian National University (ANU)-University of Queensland Brisbane -Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT University)-School of BioSciences Melbourne; Faculty of Science Melbourne; University of Melbourne-University of Melbourne-Faculty of Science Melbourne; University of Melbourne-University of Melbourne; ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoralCoE); James Cook University (JCU); Skane University Hospital Lund; Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU); Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay; Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse (AMIS); Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Laboratoire de synthèse organique (DCSO); École polytechnique (X)-Institut de Chimie - CNRS Chimie (INC-CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham (UAB); INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (OAC); Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS); Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E); Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC); Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales Paris (CNES); Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB); National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOC); Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS); Dublin City University Dublin (DCU); Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL); University College of London London (UCL); Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire (IPCM); Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut de Chimie - CNRS Chimie (INC-CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing (CAS); Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)); Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center (CNITSEC); Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Lyngby (DTU Compute); Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark (DTU); Institute of Astronomy Cambridge; University of Cambridge UK (CAM); International Space Science Institute Bern (ISSI); Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR Médecine (UGA UFRM); Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 ); CALVIN research group Edinburgh; Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB); University of Edinburgh-University of Edinburgh; Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering Bath; University of Bath Bath; United States Geological Survey Reston (USGS); AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)); Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris; Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE)
    • بيانات النشر:
      HAL CCSD
    • الموضوع:
      2016
    • Collection:
      Université Savoie Mont Blanc: HAL
    • الموضوع:
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      International audience ; 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, >8m2 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.
    • Relation:
      hal-01400682; https://hal.science/hal-01400682; https://hal.science/hal-01400682/document; https://hal.science/hal-01400682/file/The%20LOFT%20mission.pdf; BIBCODE: 2016SPIE.9905E.1RF; INSPIRE: 1507706
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1117/12.2233161
    • Rights:
      info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.3EB610A7