Conference paper
The Wide Field Monitor onboard the Chinese-European X-ray mission eXTP
Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia1
Sabanci University2
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey3
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna4
Istanbul Technical University5
University of Geneva6
CAS - Institute of High Energy Physics7
Department of Space Research and Technology, Technical University of Denmark8
Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics, Department of Space Research and Technology, Technical University of Denmark9
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research10
National Institute for Astrophysics11
Université Paris-Saclay12
University of Tübingen13
National Institute for Nuclear Physics14
Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences15
...and 5 moreThe eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with a large involvement of Europe. The scientific payload of eXTP includes four instruments: the SFA (Spectroscopy Focusing Array) and the PFA (Polarimetry Focusing Array) - led by China - the LAD (Large Area Detector) and the WFM (Wide Field Monitor) - led by Europe (Italy and Spain).
They offer a unique simultaneous wide-band X-ray timing and polarimetry sensitivity. The WFM is a wide field X-ray monitor instrument in the 2-50 keV energy range, consisting of an array of six coded mask cameras with a field of view of 180ºx90ºat an angular resolution of 5 arcmin and 4 silicon drift detectors in each camera.
Its unprecedented combination of large field of view and imaging down to 2 keV will allow eXTP to make important discoveries of the variable and transient X-ray sky and is essential in detecting transient black holes, that are part of the primary science goals of eXTP, so that they can be promptly followed up with other instruments on eXTP and elsewhere.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Proceedings: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
| Series: | Proceedings of Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Journal subtitle: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet To Gamma Ray |
| ISBN: | 1510653430 , 1510653449 , 9781510653436 and 9781510653443 |
| ISSN: | 1996756x and 0277786x |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2628335 |
| ORCIDs: | Brandt, Søren , Kuvvetli, Irfan and Tcherniak, Denis |
