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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

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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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Infrared spectroscopy of nearby radio active elliptical galaxies

(2012)

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Jeremy Mould, Tristan Reynolds, Tony Readhead, David Floyd, Buell Jannuzi, Garret Cotter, Laura Ferrarese, Keith Matthews, David Atlee, Michael Brown
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SN 2010ay IS A LUMINOUS AND BROAD-LINED TYPE Ic SUPERNOVA WITHIN A LOW-METALLICITY HOST GALAXY

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 756:2 (2012) 184

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NE Sanders, AM Soderberg, S Valenti, RJ Foley, R Chornock, L Chomiuk, E Berger, S Smartt, K Hurley, SD Barthelmy, EM Levesque, G Narayan, MT Botticella, MS Briggs, V Connaughton, Y Terada, N Gehrels, S Golenetskii, E Mazets, T Cline, A von Kienlin, W Boynton, KC Chambers, T Grav, JN Heasley, KW Hodapp, R Jedicke, N Kaiser, RP Kirshner, R-P Kudritzki, GA Luppino, RH Lupton, EA Magnier, DG Monet, JS Morgan, PM Onaka, PA Price, CW Stubbs, JL Tonry, RJ Wainscoat, MF Waterson
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LOFT: the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics 8443 (2012) 84432d-84432d-16

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M Feroci, JW den Herder, E Bozzo, D Barret, S Brandt, M Hernanz, M van der Klis, M Pohl, A Santangelo, L Stella, A Watts, J Wilms, S Zane, M Ahangarianabhari, A Alpar, D Altamirano, L Alvarez, L Amati, C Amoros, N Andersson, A Antonelli, A Argan, R Artigue, P Azzarello, G Baldazzi, S Balman, M Barbera, T Belloni, G Bertuccio, S Bianchi, A Bianchini, P Bodin, J-M Bonnet Bidaud, S Boutloukos, J Braga, E Brown, N Bucciantini, L Burderi, M Bursa, C Budtz-Jørgensen, E Cackett, FR Cadoux, P Cais, GA Caliandro, R Campana, S Campana, P Casella, D Chakrabarty, J Chenevez, J Coker, R Cole, A Collura, T Courvoisier, A Cros, A Cumming, G Cusumano, A D'Ai, V D'Elia, E Del Monte, D de Martino, A De Rosa, S Di Cosimo, S Diebold, T Di Salvo, I Donnarumma, A Drago, M Durant, D Emmanoulopoulos, Y Evangelista, A Fabian, M Falanga, Y Favre, C Feldman, C Ferrigno, MH Finger, GW Fraser, F Fuschino, DK Galloway, JL Galvez Sanchez, E Garcia-Berro, B Gendre, S Gezari, AB Giles, M Gilfanov, P Giommi, G Giovannini, M Giroletti, A Goldwurm, D Götz, C Gouiffes, M Grassi, P Groot, C Guidorzi, D Haas, F Hansen, DH Hartmann, CA Haswell, A Heger, J Homan, A Hornstrup, R Hudec, J Huovelin, A Ingram, JJM In't Zand, J Isern, G Israel, L Izzo, P Jonker, P Kaaret, V Karas, D Karelin, D Kataria, L Keek, T Kennedy, D Klochkov, W Kluzniak, K Kokkotas, S Korpela, C Kouveliotou, I Kreykenbohm, LM Kuiper, I Kuvvetli, C Labanti, D Lai, FK Lamb, F Lebrun, D Lin, D Linder, G Lodato, F Longo, N Lund, TJ Maccarone, D Macera, D Maier, P Malcovati, V Mangano, A Manousakis, M Marisaldi, A Markowitz, A Martindale, G Matt, IM McHardy, A Melatos, M Mendez, S Migliari, R Mignani, MC Miller, JM Miller, T Mineo, G Miniutti, S Morsink, C Motch, S Motta, M Mouchet, F Muleri, AJ Norton, M Nowak, P O'Brien, M Orienti, M Orio, M Orlandini, P Orleanski, JP Osborne, R Osten, F Ozel, L Pacciani, A Papitto, B Paul, E Perinati, V Petracek, J Portell, J Poutanen, D Psaltis, D Rambaud, G Ramsay, M Rapisarda, A Rachevski, PS Ray, N Rea, S Reddy, P Reig, M Reina Aranda, R Remillard, C Reynolds, P Rodríguez-Gil, J Rodriguez, P Romano, EMR Rossi, F Ryde, L Sabau-Graziati, G Sala, R Salvaterra, A Sanna, S Schanne, J Schee, C Schmid, A Schwenk, AD Schwope, J-Y Seyler, A Shearer, A Smith, DM Smith, PJ Smith, V Sochora, P Soffitta, P Soleri, B Stappers, B Steltzer, N Stergioulas, G Stratta, TE Strohmayer, Z Stuchlik, S Suchy, V Sulemainov, T Takahashi, F Tamburini, C Tenzer, L Tolos, G Torok, JM Torrejon, DF Torres, A Tramacere, A Trois, S Turriziani, P Uter, P Uttley, A Vacchi, P Varniere, S Vaughan, S Vercellone, V Vrba, D Walton, S Watanabe, R Wawrzaszek, N Webb, N Weinberg, H Wende, P Wheatley, R Wijers, R Wijnands, M Wille, CA Wilson-Hodge, B Winter, K Wood, G Zampa, N Zampa, L Zampieri, A Zdziarski, B Zhang
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