Conference paper
The Science Payload of the LOFT Mission
National Institute for Astrophysics1
National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark2
Astrophysics, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark3
Institute of Space Sciences4
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen5
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research6
University of Amsterdam7
NRL8
JAXA9
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg10
IRAP11
Université de Genève12
MSSL13
...and 3 moreThe scientific payload onboard the Large Observatory For x-ray Timing mission (LOFT, see presentation by P. Ray et al. at this meeting) is composed of two instruments, the Large Area Detector (LAD, 10 m2 effective area in the primary energy range 2-30 keV, 1-deg collimated field of view) and the Wide Field Monitor (WFM, arcmin imaging over a 4-steradian field of view in the primary energy range 2-50 keV).
In this paper we present the design solutions for the two experiments, together with their characteristics and anticipated scientific performance.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2013 |
| Proceedings: | 13th meeting of the high energy astrophysics division (HEAD) |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| ORCIDs: | Brandt, Søren |
