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Feroci, M.; den Herder, J. W.; 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.; Alpar, A.; Altamirano, D.; Alvarez, L.; Amati, L.; Amoros, C.; Andersson, N.; Antonelli, A.; Argan, A.; Artigue, R.; Azzarello, P.; Baldazzi, G.; Balman, S.; Barbera, M.; Belloni, T.; Bertuccio, G.; Bianchi, S.; Bianchini, A.; Bodin, P.; Bonnet Bidaud, J.-M.; Boutloukos, S.; Braga, J.; Brown, E.; Bucciantini, N.; Burderi, L.; Bursa, M.; Budtz-Jørgensen, C.; Cackett, E.; Cadoux, F. R.; Cais, P.; Caliandro, G. A.; Campana, R.; Campana, S.; Casella, P.; Chakrabarty, D.; Chenevez, J.; Coker, J.; Cole, R.; Collura, A.; Courvoisier, T.; Cros, A.; Cumming, A.; Cusumano, G.; D'Ai, A.; D'Elia, V.; Del Monte, E.; de Martino, D.; De Rosa, A.; Di Cosimo, S.; Diebold, S.; Di Salvo, T.; Donnarumma, I.; Drago, A.; Durant, M.; Emmanoulopoulos, D.; Evangelista, Y.; Fabian, A.; Falanga, M.; Favre, Y.; Feldman, C.; Ferrigno, C.; Finger, M. H.; Fraser, G. W.; Fuschino, F.; Galloway, D. K.; Galvez Sanchez, J. L.; Garcia-Berro, E.; Gendre, B.; Gezari, S.; Giles, A. B.; Gilfanov, M.; Giommi, P.; Giovannini, G.; Giroletti, M.; Goldwurm, A.; Götz, D.; Gouiffes, C.; Grassi, M.; Groot, P.; Guidorzi, C.; Haas, D.; Hansen, F.; Hartmann, D. H.; Haswell, C. A.; Heger, A.; Homan, J.; Hornstrup, A. et al.
Bibliographical reference
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8443, id. 84432D-84432D-16 (2012).
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Description
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
m2 peak effective area and an energy resolution of 260 eV 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 investigate variability from submillisecond QPO’s
to yearlong transient outbursts. In this paper we report the current
status of the project.
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