Conference paper · Preprint article
The LOFT wide field monitor simulator
We present the simulator we developed for the Wide Field Monitor (WFM) aboard the Large Observatory For Xray Timing (LOFT) mission, one of the four ESA M3 candidate missions considered for launch in the 2022–2024 timeframe. The WFM is designed to cover a large FoV in the same bandpass as the Large Area Detector (LAD, almost 50% of its accessible sky in the energy range 2–50 keV), in order to trigger follow-up observations with the LAD for the most interesting sources.
Moreover, its design would allow to detect transient events with fluxes down to a few mCrab in 1-day exposure, for which good spectral and timing resolution would be also available (about 300 eV FWHM and 10 μs, respectively). In order to investigate possible WFM configurations satisfying these scientific requirements and assess the instrument performance, an end-to-end WFM simulator has been developed.
We can reproduce a typical astr
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | SPIE |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Proceedings: | Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray |
| ISSN: | 1996756x and 0277786x |
| Types: | Conference paper and Preprint article |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.926254 |
| ORCIDs: | Lund, Niels and Brandt, Søren |
