The LOFT mission concept: a status update

The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) is a mission concept which was proposed to ESA as M3 and M4 candidate in the framework of the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program. Thanks to the unprecedented combination of effective area and spectral resolution of its main instrument and the uniquely large...

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Main Authors: Chakrabarty, Deepto (Contributor), Grinberg, Victoria (Contributor), Homan, Jeroen (Contributor), Neilsen, Joseph M. G. (Contributor), Remillard, Ronald A (Contributor), Weinberg, Nevin N. (Contributor), Nowak, Michael A. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Nowak, Michael A (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SPIE, 2017-06-01T15:19:13Z.
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