The design of the wide field monitor for LOFT

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2055885" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2055885</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2055885" target="_blank" >10.1117/12.2055885</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The design of the wide field monitor for LOFT
Original language description
LOFT (Large Observatory For x-ray Timing) is one of the ESA M3 missions selected within the Cosmic Vision program in 2011 to carry out an assessment phase study and compete for a launch opportunity in 2022-2024. The phase-A studies of all M3 missions were completed at the end of 2013. LOFT is designed to carry on-board two instruments with sensitivity in the 2-50 keV range: a 10 m(2) class Large Area Detector (LAD) with a < 1 degrees collimated FoV and a wide field monitor (WFM) making use of coded masks and providing an instantaneous coverage of more than 1/3 of the sky. The prime goal of the WFM will be to detect transient sources to be observed by the LAD. However, thanks to its unique combination of a wide field of view (FoV) and energy resolution (better than 500 eV), the WFM will be also an excellent monitoring instrument to study the long term variability of many classes of X-ray sources. The WFM consists of 10 independent and identical coded mask cameras arranged in 5 pairs to provide the desired sky coverage. We provide here an overview of the instrument design, configuration, and capabilities of the LOFT WFM. The compact and modular design of the WFM could easily make the instrument concept adaptable for other missions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
ISBN
9780819496126
ISSN
0277-786X
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Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
"91442V/1"-"91442V/20"
Publisher name
SPIE
Place of publication
Bellingham
Event location
Montreal
Event date
Jun 22, 2014
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000354529100086

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