The wide field monitor onboard the Chinese-European x-ray mission eXTP

Margarita Hernanz; Søren Brandt; Jean in't Zand; Yuri Evangelista; Aline Meuris; Chris Tenzer; Gianluigi Zampa; Piotr Orleanski; Emrah Kalemci; Müberra Sungur; Stéphane Schanne; Frans Zwart; Rob de la Rie; Phillip Laubert; Coen van Baren; Gabby Aitink-Kroes; Lucien Kuiper; Jörg Bayer; Paul Hedderman; Samuel Pliego; Hao Xiong; Riccardo Campana; Ettore Del Monte; Marco Feroci; Francesco Ceraudo; Olivier Gevin; Irfan Kuvvetli; Denis Tcherniak; Konrad Skup; Malgorzata Michalska; Witold Nowosielski; Ander Hormaetxe; José-Luis Gálvez; Patrícia Ferrés; Alessandro Patruno; Walter Bonvicini; Matias Antonelli; Mirko Boezio; Daniela Cirrincione; Riccardo Munini; Alexandre Rachevski; Andrea Vacchi; Nicola Zampa; Irina Rashevskaya; Andrea Argan; Onur Turhan; Ayhan Bozkurt; Ahmet Onat; Enrico Bozzo; Andrea Santangelo; Shuang-Nan Zhang; Fangjun Lu; Yupeng Xu

doi:10.1117/12.2628335

31 August 2022 The wide field monitor onboard the Chinese-European x-ray mission eXTP

Margarita Hernanz, Søren Brandt, Jean in't Zand, Yuri Evangelista, Aline Meuris, Chris Tenzer, Gianluigi Zampa, Piotr Orleanski, Emrah Kalemci, Müberra Sungur, Stéphane Schanne, Frans Zwart, Rob de la Rie, Phillip Laubert, Coen van Baren, Gabby Aitink-Kroes, Lucien Kuiper, Jörg Bayer, Paul Hedderman, Samuel Pliego, Hao Xiong, Riccardo Campana, Ettore Del Monte, Marco Feroci, Francesco Ceraudo, Olivier Gevin, Irfan Kuvvetli, Denis Tcherniak, Konrad Skup, Malgorzata Michalska, Witold Nowosielski, Ander Hormaetxe, José-Luis Gálvez, Patrícia Ferrés, Alessandro Patruno, Walter Bonvicini, Matias Antonelli, Mirko Boezio, Daniela Cirrincione, Riccardo Munini, Alexandre Rachevski, Andrea Vacchi, Nicola Zampa, Irina Rashevskaya, Andrea Argan, Onur Turhan, Ayhan Bozkurt, Ahmet Onat, Enrico Bozzo, Andrea Santangelo, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Fangjun Lu, Yupeng Xu

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Proceedings Volume 12181, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 121811Y (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628335
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Abstract

The eXTP (enhanced x-ray timing and polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with a large involvement of Europe. The scientific payload of eXTP includes four instruments: the SFA (spectroscopy focusing array) and the PFA (polarimetry focusing array)—led by China —the LAD (large area detector) and the WFM (wide field monitor)—led by Europe (Italy and Spain). They offer a unique simultaneous wide-band x-ray timing and polarimetry sensitivity. The WFM is a wide field x-ray monitor instrument in the 2-50 keV energy range, consisting of an array of six coded mask cameras with a field of view of 180°x90° at an angular resolution of 5 arcmin and four silicon drift detectors in each camera. Its unprecedented combination of large field of view and imaging down to 2 keV will allow eXTP to make important discoveries of the variable and transient x-ray sky and is essential in detecting transient black holes, that are part of the primary science goals of eXTP, so that they can be promptly followed up with other instruments on eXTP and elsewhere.

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Margarita Hernanz, Søren Brandt, Jean in't Zand, Yuri Evangelista, Aline Meuris, Chris Tenzer, Gianluigi Zampa, Piotr Orleanski, Emrah Kalemci, Müberra Sungur, Stéphane Schanne, Frans Zwart, Rob de la Rie, Phillip Laubert, Coen van Baren, Gabby Aitink-Kroes, Lucien Kuiper, Jörg Bayer, Paul Hedderman, Samuel Pliego, Hao Xiong, Riccardo Campana, Ettore Del Monte, Marco Feroci, Francesco Ceraudo, Olivier Gevin, Irfan Kuvvetli, Denis Tcherniak, Konrad Skup, Malgorzata Michalska, Witold Nowosielski, Ander Hormaetxe, José-Luis Gálvez, Patrícia Ferrés, Alessandro Patruno, Walter Bonvicini, Matias Antonelli, Mirko Boezio, Daniela Cirrincione, Riccardo Munini, Alexandre Rachevski, Andrea Vacchi, Nicola Zampa, Irina Rashevskaya, Andrea Argan, Onur Turhan, Ayhan Bozkurt, Ahmet Onat, Enrico Bozzo, Andrea Santangelo, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Fangjun Lu, and Yupeng Xu "The wide field monitor onboard the Chinese-European x-ray mission eXTP", Proc. SPIE 12181, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 121811Y (31 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628335

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