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The LOFAR radio environment

(2012)

Authors:

AR Offringa, AG de Bruyn, S Zaroubi, G van Diepen, O Martinez-Ruby, P Labropoulos, MA Brentjens, B Ciardi, S Daiboo, G Harker, V Jelic, S Kazemi, LVE Koopmans, G Mellema, VN Pandey, RF Pizzo, J Schaye, H Vedantham, V Veligatla, SJ Wijnholds, S Yatawatta, P Zarka, A Alexov, J Anderson, A Asgekar, M Avruch, R Beck, M Bell, MR Bell, M Bentum, G Bernardi, P Best, L Birzan, A Bonafede, F Breitling, JW Broderick, M Bruggen, H Butcher, J Conway, M de Vos, RJ Dettmar, J Eisloeffel, H Falcke, R Fender, W Frieswijk, M Gerbers, JM Griessmeier, AW Gunst, TE Hassall, G Heald, J Hessels, M Hoeft, A Horneffer, A Karastergiou, V Kondratiev, Y Koopman, M Kuniyoshi, G Kuper, P Maat, G Mann, J McKean, H Meulman, M Mevius, JD Mol, R Nijboer, J Noordam, M Norden, H Paas, M Pandey, R Pizzo, A Polatidis, D Rafferty, S Rawlings, W Reich, HJA Rottgering, AP Schoenmakers, J Sluman, O Smirnov, C Sobey, B Stappers, M Steinmetz, J Swinbank, M Tagger, Y Tang, C Tasse, A van Ardenne, W van Cappellen, AP van Duin, M van Haarlem, J van Leeuwen, RJ van Weeren, R Vermeulen, C Vocks, RAMJ Wijers, M Wise, O Wucknitz
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The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT)

Experimental Astronomy 34:2 (2012) 415-444

Authors:

M Feroci, L Stella, M van der Klis, TJL Courvoisier, M Hernanz, R Hudec, A Santangelo, D Walton, A Zdziarski, D Barret, T Belloni, J Braga, S Brandt, C Budtz-Jørgensen, S Campana, JW den Herder, J Huovelin, GL Israel, M Pohl, P Ray, A Vacchi, S Zane, A Argan, P Attinà, G Bertuccio, E Bozzo, R Campana, D Chakrabarty, E Costa, A de Rosa, E Del Monte, S Di Cosimo, I Donnarumma, Y Evangelista, D Haas, P Jonker, S Korpela, C Labanti, P Malcovati, R Mignani, F Muleri, M Rapisarda, A Rashevsky, N Rea, A Rubini, C Tenzer, C Wilson-Hodge, B Winter, K Wood, G Zampa, N Zampa, MA Abramowicz, MA Alpar, D Altamirano, JM Alvarez, L Amati, C Amoros, LA Antonelli, R Artigue, P Azzarello, M Bachetti, G Baldazzi, M Barbera, C Barbieri, S Basa, A Baykal, R Belmont, L Boirin, V Bonvicini, L Burderi, M Bursa, C Cabanac, E Cackett, GA Caliandro, P Casella, S Chaty, J Chenevez, MJ Coe, A Collura, A Corongiu, S Covino, G Cusumano, F D'Amico, S Dall'Osso, D de Martino, G de Paris, G Di Persio, T Di Salvo, C Done, M Dovčiak, A Drago, U Ertan, S Fabiani, M Falanga, R Fender, P Ferrando, D della Monica Ferreira, G Fraser, F Frontera, F Fuschino

Abstract:

High-time-resolution X-ray observations of compact objects provide direct access to strong-field gravity, to the equation of state of ultradense matter and to black hole masses and spins. A 10 m 2-class instrument in combination with good spectral resolution is required to exploit the relevant diagnostics and answer two of the fundamental questions of the European Space Agency (ESA) Cosmic Vision Theme "Matter under extreme conditions", namely: does matter orbiting close to the event horizon follow the predictions of general relativity? What is the equation of state of matter in neutron stars? The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT), selected by ESA as one of the four Cosmic Vision M3 candidate missions to undergo an assessment phase, will revolutionise the study of collapsed objects in our galaxy and of the brightest supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei. Thanks to an innovative design and the development of large-area monolithic silicon drift detectors, the Large Area Detector (LAD) on board LOFT will achieve an effective area of ~12 m 2 (more than an order of magnitude larger than any spaceborne predecessor) in the 2-30 keV range (up to 50 keV in expanded mode), yet still fits a conventional platform and small/medium-class launcher. With this large area and a spectral resolution of <260 eV, LOFT will yield unprecedented information on strongly curved spacetimes and matter under extreme conditions of pressure and magnetic field strength. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
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The progenitor mass of the Type IIP supernova SN 2004et from late-time spectral modeling⋆

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 546 (2012) a28

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A Jerkstrand, C Fransson, K Maguire, S Smartt, M Ergon, J Spyromilio
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Discovery of a giant HI tail in the galaxy group HCG 44

(2012)

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Paolo Serra, Baerbel Koribalski, Pierre-Alain Duc, Tom Oosterloo, Richard M McDermid, Leo Michel-Dansac, Eric Emsellem, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Katherine Alatalo, Leo Blitz, Maxime Bois, Frederic Bournaud, Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari, Alison F Crocker, Roger L Davies, Timothy A Davis, PT de Zeeuw, Sadegh Khochfar, Davor Krajnovic, Harald Kuntschner, Pierre-Yves Lablanche, Raffaella Morganti, Thorsten Naab, Marc Sarzi, Nicholas Scott, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Lisa M Young
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Secular evolution in action: central values and radial trends in the stellar populations of boxy bulges

(2012)

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Michael J Williams, Martin Bureau, Harald Kuntschner
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