The LOFT wide field monitor simulator

I. Donnarumma; Y. Evangelista; R. Campana; Jean in't Zand; M. Feroci; Niels Lund; Søren Brandt; J. Wilms; C. Schmid

doi:10.1117/12.926254

The LOFT wide field monitor simulator

I. Donnarumma, Y. Evangelista, R. Campana, Jean in't Zand, M. Feroci, Niels Lund, Søren Brandt, J. Wilms, C. Schmid

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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

Original language	English
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8443
Pages (from-to)	84435Q
Number of pages	12
ISSN	0277-786X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926254
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2012 - Amsterdam RAI Convention Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 1 Jul 2012 → 6 Jul 2012 Conference number: 8443

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Conference	SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2012
Number	8443
Location	Amsterdam RAI Convention Center
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	01/07/2012 → 06/07/2012

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LOFT: LOFT, the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing
Brandt, S. (Project Manager), Budtz-Jørgensen, C. (Project Participant), Lund, N. (Project Participant), Pedersen, S. M. (Project Manager), Kuvvetli, I. (Project Participant) & Hansen, F. (Project Participant)
15/02/2011 → …
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Brandt, S. (Participant)
1 Jul 2012 → 6 Jul 2012
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Brandt, S. (Participant)
25 May 2011 → 31 Dec 2013
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