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, Grinberg, Victoria, Homan, Jeroen, Neilsen, Joseph M. G., Remillard, Ronald A, Weinberg, Nevin N., Nowak, Michael A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109499
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