The LOFT mission concept: a status update

M. Feroci; E. Bozzo; S. Brandt; M. Hernanz; M. van der Klis; L.-P. Liu; P. Orleanski; M. Pohl; A. Santangelo; S. Schanne; L. Stella; T. Takahashi; H. Tamura; A. Watts; J. Wilms; S. Zane; S.-N. Zhang; S. Bhattacharyya; I. Agudo; M. Ahangarianabhari; C. Albertus; M. Alford; A. Alpar; D. Altamirano; L. Alvarez; L. Amati; C. Amoros; N. Andersson; A. Antonelli; A. Argan; R. Artigue; B. Artigues; J.-L. Atteia; P. Azzarello; P. Bakala; D. Ballantyne; G. Baldazzi; M. Baldo; S. Balman; M. Barbera; C. van Baren; D. Barret; A. Baykal; M. Begelman; E. Behar; O. Behar; T. Belloni; F. Bernardini; G. Bertuccio; S. Bianchi; A. Bianchini; P. Binko; P. Blay; F. Bocchino; M. Bode; P. Bodin; I. Bombaci; J.-M. Bonnet Bidaud; S. Boutloukos; F. Bouyjou; L. Bradley; José Braga; M. S. Briggs; E. Brown; M. Buballa; N. Bucciantini; L. Burderi; M. Burgay; M. Bursa; C. Budtz-Jørgensen; E. Cackett; F. Cadoux; Ph. Cais; G. A. Caliandro; R. Campana; S. Campana; X. Cao; F. Capitanio; J. Casares; P. Casella; A. J. Castro-Tirado; E. Cavazzuti; Y. Cavechi; Sébastien Celestin; P. Cerda-Duran; D. Chakrabarty; N. Chamel; F. Château; C. Chen; Y. Chen; J. Chenevez; M. Chernyakova; J. Coker; R. Cole; A. Collura; M. Coriat; R. Cornelisse; L. Costamante; A. Cros; W. Cui; A. Cumming; G. Cusumano; B. Czerny; A. d'Aı; F. d'Ammando; V. d'Elia; Z. Dai; E. del Monte; A. de Luca; D. de Martino; J. P. C. Dercksen; M. de Pasquale; A. de Rosa; M. del Santo; S. Di Cosimo; N. Degenaar; J. W. den Herder; S. Diebold; T. Di Salvo; Y. Dong; I. Donnarumma; V. Doroshenko; G. Doyle; S. A. Drake; M. Durant; D. Emmanoulopoulos; T. Enoto; M. H. Erkut; P. Esposito; Y. Evangelista; A. Fabian; M. Falanga; Y. Favre; C. Feldman; R. Fender; H. Feng; V. Ferrari; C. Ferrigno; M. Finger; M. H. Finger; G. W. Fraser; M. Frericks; M. Fullekrug; F. Fuschino; M. Gabler; D. K. Galloway; J. L. Gálvez Sanchez; P. Gandhi; Z. Gao; E. Garcia-Berro; B. Gendre; O. Gevin; S. Gezari; A. B. Giles; M. Gilfanov; P. Giommi; G. Giovannini; M. Giroletti; E. Gogus; A. Goldwurm; K. Goluchová; D. Götz; L. Gou; C. Gouiffes; P. Grandi; M. Grassi; J. Greiner; V. Grinberg; P. Groot; M. Gschwender; L. Gualtieri; M. Guedel; C. Guidorzi; L. Guy; D. Haas; P. Haensel; M. Hailey; K. Hamuguchi; F. Hansen; D. H. Hartmann; C. A. Haswell; K. Hebeler; A. Heger; M. Hempel; W. Hermsen; J. Homan; A. Hornstrup; R. Hudec; J. Huovelin; D. Huppenkothen; S. C. Inam; A. Ingram; J. J. M. In'T Zand; G. Israel; K. Iwasawa; L. Izzo; H. M. Jacobs; F. Jetter; T. Johannsen; P. A. Jenke; P. Jonker; J. Josè; P. Kaaret; K. Kalamkar; E. Kalemci; G. Kanbach; V. Karas; D. Karelin; D. Kataria; L. Keek; T. Kennedy; D. Klochkov; W. Kluzniak; E. Koerding; K. Kokkotas; S. Komossa; S. Korpela; C. Kouveliotou; A. F. Kowalski; I. Kreykenbohm; L. M. Kuiper; D. Kunneriath; A. Kurkela; I. Kuvvetli; F. La Franca; C. Labanti; D. Lai; F. K. Lamb; C. Lachaud; P. P. Laubert; F. Lebrun; X. Li; E. Liang; O. Limousin; D. Lin; M. Linares; D. Linder; G. Lodato; F. Longo; F. Lu; N. Lund; T. J. Maccarone; D. Macera; S. Maestre; S. Mahmoodifar; D. Maier; P. Malcovati; J. Malzac; C. Malone; I. Mandel; V. Mangano; A. Manousakis; M. Marelli; J. Margueron; M. Marisaldi; S. B. Markoff; A. Markowitz; A. Marinucci; A. Martindale; Gines Martinez Garcia; I. M. Mchardy; G. Medina-Tanco; M. Mehdipour; A. Melatos; M. Mendez; S. Mereghetti; S. Migliari; R. Mignani; M. Michalska; T. Mihara; M. C. Miller; J. M. Miller; T. Mineo; G. Miniutti; S. Morsink; C. Motch; S. Motta; M. Mouchet; G. Mouret; J. Mulačová; F. Muleri; T. Muñoz-Darias; I. Negueruela; J. Neilsen; T. Neubert; A. J. Norton; M. Nowak; A. Nucita; P. O'Brien; M. Oertel; P. E. H. Olsen; M. Orienti; M. Orio; M. Orlandini; J. P. Osborne; R. Osten; F. Ozel; L. Pacciani; F. Paerels; S. Paltani; M. Paolillo; I. Papadakis; A. Papitto; Z. Paragi; J. M. Paredes; A. Patruno; B. Paul; F. Pederiva; E. Perinati; A. Pellizzoni; A. V. Penacchioni; U. Peretz; M. A. Perez; M. Perez-Torres; B. M. Peterson; V. Petracek; C. Pittori; J. Pons; J. Portell; A. Possenti; K. Postnov; J. Poutanen; M. Prakash; I. Prandoni; H. Le Provost; D. Psaltis; J. Pye; J. Qu; D. Rambaud; P. Ramon; G. Ramsay; M. Rapisarda; A. Rashevski; I. Rashevskaya; P. S. Ray; N. Rea; S. Reddy; P. Reig; M. Reina Aranda; R. Remillard; C. Reynolds; L. Rezzolla; M. Ribo; R. de la Rie; A. Riggio; A. Rios; D. H. Rischke; P. Rodríguez-Gil; J. Rodriguez; R. Rohlfs; P. Romano; E. M. R. Rossi; A. Rozanska; A. Rousseau; B. Rudak; D. M. Russell; F. Ryde; L. Sabau-Graziati; T. Sakamoto; G. Sala; R. Salvaterra; D. Salvetti; A. Sanna; J. Sandberg; T. Savolainen; S. Scaringi; J. Schaffner-Bielich; H. Schatz; J. Schee; C. Schmid; M. Serino; N. Shakura; S. Shore; J. D. Schnittman; R. Schneider; A. Schwenk; A. D. Schwope; A. Sedrakian; J.-Y. Seyler; A. Shearer; A. Slowikowska; M. Sims; A. Smith; D. M. Smith; P. J. Smith; M. Sobolewska; V. Sochora; P. Soffitta; P. Soleri; L. Song; A. Spencer; A. Stamerra; B. Stappers; R. Staubert; A. W. Steiner; N. Stergioulas; A. L. Stevens; G. Stratta; T. E. Strohmayer; Z. Stuchlik; S. Suchy; V. Suleimanov; F. Tamburini; T. Tauris; F. Tavecchio; C. Tenzer; F. K. Thielemann; A. Tiengo; L. Tolos; F. Tombesi; J. Tomsick; G. Torok; J. M. Torrejon; D. F. Torres; E. Torresi; A. Tramacere; I. Traulsen; A. Trois; R. Turolla; S. Turriziani; S. Typel; P. Uter; P. Uttley; A. Vacchi; P. Varniere; S. Vaughan; S. Vercellone; M. Vietri; F. H. Vincent; V. Vrba; D. Walton; J. Wang; Z. Wang; S. Watanabe; R. Wawrzaszek; N. Webb; N. Weinberg; H. Wende; P. Wheatley; R. Wijers; R. Wijnands; M. Wille; C. A. Wilson-Hodge; B. Winter; S. J. Walk; K. Wood; S. E. Woosley; X. Wu; R. Xu; W. Yu; F. Yuan; W. Yuan; Y. Yuan; G. Zampa; N. Zampa; L. Zampieri; L. Zdunik; A. Zdziarski; A. Zech; B. Zhang; C. Zhang; S. Zhang; M. Zingale; F. Zwart

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The LOFT mission concept: a status update

M. Feroci E. Bozzo ¹ S. Brandt ² M. Hernanz M. van der Klis L.-P. Liu ³ P. Orleanski M. Pohl A. Santangelo ⁴ S. Schanne ⁵ L. Stella ⁶ T. Takahashi H. Tamura ⁷ A. Watts ⁸ J. Wilms S. Zane S.-N. Zhang ⁹ S. Bhattacharyya ^{10, 11} I. Agudo M. Ahangarianabhari C. Albertus M. Alford ¹² A. Alpar D. Altamirano ¹³ L. Alvarez L. Amati ¹⁴ C. Amoros N. Andersson A. Antonelli ^{15, 16} A. Argan ¹⁷ R. Artigue B. Artigues J.-L. Atteia ¹⁸ P. Azzarello P. Bakala D. Ballantyne G. Baldazzi M. Baldo S. Balman M. Barbera C. van Baren D. Barret ¹⁹ A. Baykal M. Begelman E. Behar ²⁰ O. Behar T. Belloni ²¹ F. Bernardini ²² G. Bertuccio S. Bianchi A. Bianchini ²³ P. Binko P. Blay ²⁴ F. Bocchino ²⁵ M. Bode ^{26, 27} P. Bodin ²⁸ I. Bombaci J.-M. Bonnet Bidaud S. Boutloukos F. Bouyjou ²⁹ L. Bradley José Braga ³⁰ M. S. Briggs ³¹ E. Brown ³² M. Buballa N. Bucciantini L. Burderi M. Burgay ³³ M. Bursa C. Budtz-Jørgensen E. Cackett F. Cadoux Ph. Cais ³⁴ G. A. Caliandro R. Campana S. Campana ²¹ X. Cao ³⁵ F. Capitanio ³⁶ J. Casares P. Casella A. J. Castro-Tirado E. Cavazzuti Y. Cavechi Sébastien Celestin ³⁷ P. Cerda-Duran D. Chakrabarty N. Chamel ³⁸ F. Château ²⁹ C. Chen ³⁹ Y. Chen J. Chenevez M. Chernyakova ^{40, 41} J. Coker ⁴² R. Cole ⁴³ A. Collura M. Coriat ¹⁹ R. Cornelisse L. Costamante A. Cros W. Cui ⁴⁴ A. Cumming G. Cusumano B. Czerny ⁴⁵ A. d'Aı F. d'Ammando V. d'Elia Z. Dai ⁴⁶ E. del Monte A. de Luca ³⁵ D. de Martino J. P. C. Dercksen M. de Pasquale A. de Rosa M. del Santo S. Di Cosimo N. Degenaar J. W. den Herder S. Diebold T. Di Salvo Y. Dong ⁴⁷ I. Donnarumma V. Doroshenko ⁴ G. Doyle S. A. Drake M. Durant ⁴⁸ D. Emmanoulopoulos T. Enoto M. H. Erkut P. Esposito ⁴⁹ Y. Evangelista A. Fabian ⁵⁰ M. Falanga ⁵¹ Y. Favre C. Feldman R. Fender ⁵² H. Feng V. Ferrari ⁵³ C. Ferrigno M. Finger M. H. Finger G. W. Fraser M. Frericks M. Fullekrug ⁵⁴ F. Fuschino M. Gabler D. K. Galloway ⁵⁵ J. L. Gálvez Sanchez P. Gandhi ⁵⁶ Z. Gao E. Garcia-Berro B. Gendre ⁵⁷ O. Gevin ²⁹ S. Gezari A. B. Giles M. Gilfanov P. Giommi G. Giovannini M. Giroletti ⁵⁸ E. Gogus A. Goldwurm ⁵⁹ K. Goluchová D. Götz ⁵ L. Gou C. Gouiffes ⁵ P. Grandi M. Grassi ⁶⁰ J. Greiner ⁶¹ V. Grinberg ⁶² P. Groot M. Gschwender L. Gualtieri ⁶³ M. Guedel C. Guidorzi L. Guy D. Haas ⁶⁴ P. Haensel M. Hailey K. Hamuguchi F. Hansen D. H. Hartmann ⁶⁵ C. A. Haswell K. Hebeler A. Heger M. Hempel ⁶⁶ W. Hermsen ⁶⁷ J. Homan A. Hornstrup R. Hudec J. Huovelin D. Huppenkothen S. C. Inam A. Ingram ⁶⁸ J. J. M. In'T Zand G. Israel K. Iwasawa ⁶⁹ L. Izzo ⁷⁰ H. M. Jacobs F. Jetter T. Johannsen P. A. Jenke P. Jonker ^{71, 67} J. Josè P. Kaaret K. Kalamkar E. Kalemci G. Kanbach V. Karas D. Karelin D. Kataria ⁴² L. Keek T. Kennedy D. Klochkov W. Kluzniak E. Koerding ⁷² K. Kokkotas S. Komossa S. Korpela C. Kouveliotou A. F. Kowalski ^{73, 74} I. Kreykenbohm L. M. Kuiper ⁶⁷ D. Kunneriath A. Kurkela I. Kuvvetli F. La Franca C. Labanti D. Lai ⁷⁵ F. K. Lamb C. Lachaud P. P. Laubert F. Lebrun ⁵⁹ X. Li ⁷⁶ E. Liang ⁷⁷ O. Limousin ²⁹ D. Lin M. Linares ⁷⁸ D. Linder ⁷⁹ G. Lodato F. Longo F. Lu N. Lund T. J. Maccarone D. Macera S. Maestre S. Mahmoodifar D. Maier P. Malcovati J. Malzac ¹⁹ C. Malone I. Mandel V. Mangano ¹⁷ A. Manousakis M. Marelli J. Margueron ⁸⁰ M. Marisaldi S. B. Markoff ⁸ A. Markowitz ⁸¹ A. Marinucci A. Martindale Gines Martinez Garcia I. M. Mchardy G. Medina-Tanco M. Mehdipour A. Melatos M. Mendez ⁸² S. Mereghetti ¹⁴ S. Migliari R. Mignani ^{42, 83} M. Michalska T. Mihara ⁸⁴ M. C. Miller J. M. Miller ⁸⁵ T. Mineo ⁸⁶ G. Miniutti S. Morsink C. Motch S. Motta ⁸⁷ M. Mouchet ^{88, 89} G. Mouret ⁹⁰ J. Mulačová F. Muleri T. Muñoz-Darias ¹³ I. Negueruela J. Neilsen T. Neubert A. J. Norton ⁹¹ M. Nowak ⁹² A. Nucita P. O'Brien M. Oertel ⁴⁵ P. E. H. Olsen M. Orienti M. Orio ⁹³ M. Orlandini J. P. Osborne R. Osten ⁹⁴ F. Ozel L. Pacciani F. Paerels S. Paltani M. Paolillo ⁹⁵ I. Papadakis A. Papitto Z. Paragi J. M. Paredes A. Patruno B. Paul ⁹⁶ F. Pederiva E. Perinati A. Pellizzoni A. V. Penacchioni U. Peretz M. A. Perez ⁶⁵ M. Perez-Torres B. M. Peterson ⁹⁷ V. Petracek C. Pittori J. Pons ⁹⁸ J. Portell A. Possenti ³³ K. Postnov J. Poutanen M. Prakash ⁹⁹ I. Prandoni H. Le Provost D. Psaltis J. Pye ¹⁰⁰ J. Qu ¹⁰¹ D. Rambaud P. Ramon G. Ramsay M. Rapisarda A. Rashevski ¹⁰² I. Rashevskaya P. S. Ray ¹⁰³ N. Rea ¹⁰⁴ S. Reddy P. Reig M. Reina Aranda R. Remillard C. Reynolds ¹⁰⁵ L. Rezzolla M. Ribo R. de la Rie A. Riggio A. Rios D. H. Rischke P. Rodríguez-Gil J. Rodriguez ¹⁰⁶ R. Rohlfs P. Romano ¹⁰⁷ E. M. R. Rossi ¹⁰⁸ A. Rozanska A. Rousseau ¹⁰⁹ B. Rudak D. M. Russell F. Ryde L. Sabau-Graziati T. Sakamoto G. Sala R. Salvaterra D. Salvetti A. Sanna ¹¹⁰ J. Sandberg T. Savolainen S. Scaringi J. Schaffner-Bielich ¹¹¹ H. Schatz J. Schee C. Schmid ¹¹² M. Serino N. Shakura S. Shore J. D. Schnittman R. Schneider A. Schwenk A. D. Schwope ¹¹³ A. Sedrakian J.-Y. Seyler ¹¹⁴ A. Shearer A. Slowikowska M. Sims A. Smith D. M. Smith ¹¹⁵ P. J. Smith ¹¹⁶ M. Sobolewska V. Sochora P. Soffitta P. Soleri L. Song ¹¹⁷ A. Spencer ⁴² A. Stamerra B. Stappers ¹¹⁸ R. Staubert A. W. Steiner N. Stergioulas A. L. Stevens G. Stratta T. E. Strohmayer Z. Stuchlik S. Suchy V. Suleimanov F. Tamburini ¹¹⁹ T. Tauris ^{120, 121} F. Tavecchio C. Tenzer F. K. Thielemann A. Tiengo L. Tolos F. Tombesi J. Tomsick ¹²² G. Torok J. M. Torrejon D. F. Torres E. Torresi A. Tramacere I. Traulsen ¹²³ A. Trois R. Turolla ¹²⁴ S. Turriziani S. Typel P. Uter P. Uttley ⁸ A. Vacchi P. Varniere ¹²⁵ S. Vaughan S. Vercellone ²⁵ M. Vietri F. H. Vincent V. Vrba D. Walton ¹²⁶ J. Wang ¹²⁷ Z. Wang S. Watanabe ¹²⁸ R. Wawrzaszek N. Webb ¹⁹ N. Weinberg H. Wende P. Wheatley R. Wijers ⁸ R. Wijnands ⁸ M. Wille C. A. Wilson-Hodge B. Winter S. J. Walk K. Wood S. E. Woosley X. Wu R. Xu ¹²⁹ W. Yu ¹³⁰ F. Yuan W. Yuan Y. Yuan ¹³¹ G. Zampa N. Zampa L. Zampieri L. Zdunik A. Zdziarski A. Zech B. Zhang ¹³² C. Zhang S. Zhang ⁹ M. Zingale F. Zwart

1 ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics

2 MSSM - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York]

3 RU - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey [New Brunswick]

4 IAAT - Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik [Tübingen]

5 AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation

6 Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche

7 Graduate School of the Natural Science and Technology

8 AI PANNEKOEK - Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek

9 CINaM - Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille

10 TUT - Tampere University of Technology [Tampere]

11 University of Maryland [College Park]

12 Department of Biological Sciences [Mississippi]

13 School of Physics and Astronomy [Southampton]

14 IASF-MI - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano

15 Università di Roma La Sapienza

16 Università di Roma Tor Vergata

17 IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF

18 LATT - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées

19 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie

20 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Uppsala]

21 OAB - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera

22 Department of Computer Sciences [Scheffield]

23 Colgate University

24 BnF - Bibliothèque nationale de France

25 IASF-Pa - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Palermo

26 ARC CEED - ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions

27 CoralCoE - ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

28 Lund University [Lund]

29 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers

30 AMIS - Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse

31 DCSO - Laboratoire de synthèse organique

32 UAB - The University of Alabama at Birmingham [ Birmingham]

33 OAC - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari

34 ELECTRONIQUE 2016

LAB - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac]

35 LPTMS - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques

36 School of Geosciences

37 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace

38 ULB - Université Libre de Bruxelles [Bruxelles]

39 NOC - National Oceanography Centre [Southampton]

40 DIAS - Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

41 Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

42 MSSL - Mullard Space Science Laboratory

43 IPCM - Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire

44 CAS - Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing]

45 LUTH (UMR_8102) - Laboratoire Univers et Théories

46 China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center

47 DTU Compute - Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science [Lyngby]

48 PCAS

49 Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy

50 Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge]

51 ISSI - International Space Science Institute [Bern]

52 UGA UFRM - Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR Médecine

53 CALVIN research group [Edinburgh]

IPAB - Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour

54 Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering [Bath]

55 USGS - United States Geological Survey [Reston]

56 Sr. PLM Consultant

57 ARTEMIS - Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux

58 INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica

59 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie

60 Dept Ind Engn & Informat Techonolgy

61 MPE - Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik

62 MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

63 IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

64 I2BC - Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule

65 MATEIS - Matériaux, ingénierie et science [Villeurbanne]

66 Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center

67 SRON - SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research

68 Opole University of Technology

69 INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica

70 Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" [Rome]

71 Department of Astrophysics [Nijmegen]

72 IMAPP - Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics

73 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

74 Dept Fis Aplicada

75 Victoria University [Melbourne]

76 POLYU - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [Hong Kong]

77 CAS - Chinese Academy of Sciences [Changchun Branch]

78 IFM - Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology [Linköping]

79 ICSN - Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles

80 IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon

81 ECAP - Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics

82 CRBM - Centre de recherche en Biologie Cellulaire

83 Institute of Astronomy

84 Department of Electronics and Computer Systems

85 University of Wisconsin-Madison

86 INPA - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia

87 Università degli studi di Catania [Catania]

88 CESCO - Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation

89 LECA - Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine

90 LPCA - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère

91 HEPL, Solar Physics

92 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

93 ISM2 - Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille

94 STSci - Space Telescope Science Institute

95 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche [Naples]

96 IFPEN - IFP Energies nouvelles

97 Columbia University [New York]

98 LBBE - Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558

99 Stanford University [Stanford]

100 Department of Anthropology [University of Arkansas]

101 Hu county ventre for disease control and prevention of Shaanxi province

102 INFN, Sezione di Trieste - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste

103 DALEMBERT - Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

104 ICE-CSIC - Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai [Barcelona]

105 UOR - University of Reading

106 Departamento de Matemática Aplicada

107 Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania

108 LAAS-RIS - Équipe Robotique et InteractionS

LAAS - Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes

109 IMP - Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères

110 Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)

111 Institut für Theoretische Physik

112 Augsburg Hospital

113 AIP - Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam

114 Daimler - Daimler Chrysler AG

115 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan

116 MVO - Montserrat Volcano Observatory

117 INRS-IAF - Institut Armand Frappier

118 Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics

119 FICLIT

120 MPIFR - Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie

121 AlfA - Argelander-Institut für Astronomie

122 SSL - Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley]

123 CAU - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

124 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei"

125 APC-Gravitation - APC - Gravitation

APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie, AEI - Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik ( Albert-Einstein-Institut )

126 Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

127 Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory

128 MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

129 School of Urban and Regional Planning

130 National University of Defense Technology [China]

131 Princeton University

132 MC2 - Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience

Abstract : 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 field of view of its wide field monitor, LOFT will be able to study the behaviour of matter in extreme conditions such as the strong gravitational field in the innermost regions close to black holes and neutron stars and the supra-nuclear densities in the interiors of neutron stars. The science payload is based on a Large Area Detector (LAD, >8m2 effective area, 2-30 keV, 240 eV spectral resolution, 1 degree collimated field of view) and a Wide Field Monitor (WFM, 2-50 keV, 4 steradian field of view, 1 arcmin source location accuracy, 300 eV spectral resolution). The WFM is equipped with an on-board system for bright events (e.g., GRB) localization. The trigger time and position of these events are broadcast to the ground within 30 s from discovery. In this paper we present the current technical and programmatic status of the mission.

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Informatique [cs]

Planète et Univers [physics] / Astrophysique [astro-ph] / Astrophysique galactique [astro-ph.GA]

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The LOFT mission concept: a status update

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