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MARCO FEROCI INAF, ROME ON BEHALF OF THE LOFT, EXTP AND LOFT-P TEAMS PROSPECTS FOR LARGE AREA X-RAY SPECTRAL -TIMING

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MARCO FEROCI INAF, ROME

ON BEHALF OF THE LOFT, EXTP AND LOFT-P TEAMS

PROSPECTS FOR LARGE AREA X-RAY SPECTRAL-TIMING

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OBIETTIVI SCIENTIFICI PRIMARI

STUDIO DELLA MATERIA IN CONDIZIONI ULTRADENSE (EOS)

STUDIO DEL COMPORTAMENTO DELLA MATERIA IN PRESENZA DI CAMPO GRAVITAZIONALE FORTE

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DENSE MATTER IN NEUTRON STARS – A UNIQUE REGIME

LOFT AND EXTP WILL STUDY NUCLEONIC MATTER IN A UNIQUE REGIME, AND

EXOTIC STATES OF MATTER THAT COULD NEVER EXIST IN THE LABORATORY.

Neutron Stars

LOFT /

eXTP

USING ONLY KNOWN SOURCES, PULSE PROFILE MODELLING MEASUREMENTS WILL MAP THE M-R RELATION AND

HENCE THE EOS.

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ACCRETION NEAR THE EVENT HORIZON

Current best tests of General Relativity: millisecond radiopulsars in weak-field regime (GR small perturbation) GW150914: strong field in a highly dynamic regime

LOFT: GR effects in a stationary spacetime

LOFT/eXTP: near the event horizon

RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS DOMINATE

ASTROPHYSICS NEAR BLACK HOLES: STRONG FIELD EFFECTS

• Inner Stable Circular Orbit • Orbital motion near ISCO • Orbital and epicyclic frequencies • Frame dragging, light deflection,

Shapiro effect

Motta et al. 2013

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THREE POSSIBLE MISSION APPROACHES

LOFT Large Observatory For x-ray Timing

(ESA)

eXTP enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarization mission (CAS)

Bright sources: Large Collimated Area

Weak/soft sources: Collimated Area + Telescopes.

And Polarimeter

LOFT-P LOFT-Probe

(NASA)

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THREE POSSIBLE MISSION APPROACHES

LOFT / LOFT-P Large Observatory For x-ray Timing

(ESA or NASA)

eXTP enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarization mission (CAS)

Bright sources: Large Collimated Area

Weak/soft sources: Collimated + Focused Area

8-10 m2 3.4m2

1m2 0.6m2

LOFT/LOFT-P

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CONTESTO INTERNAZIONALE

The Multi-wavelength and Multi-messenger Context of Time Domain Astronomy

XIPE/IXPE?

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LARGE AREA SILICON DRIFT DETECTORS TECHNOLOGY

CONTRIBUTO NAZIONALE

• 120 mm x 72.5 mm • 450 µm thick • 224 anodes, 970 µm pitch • <150 pA/cm2 leakage at 20°C

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RUOLO NAZIONALE

LOFT

Project

SYSTEM

Project Office

Management

System

Engineering

PA

AIV

GSE

MGSE

EGSE

Operations

P/L SUB-SYSTEMS

Payload System

Management

Procurement

MAIT

Test Equipment

LAD

Project Office

Procurement

MAIT

Calibration

Test Equipment

WFM

Project Office

Procurement

MAIT

Calibration

Test Equipment

PDHU

Project Office

Procurement

MAIT

Test Equipment

SDC

Pre-processing

LAD Software

WFM Software

Sky monitor

+ etc

WFM data

enhancement

LAD data

enhancement

LBAGS

Science

KEY PARTNERS: UK, CH, F, D, ES, DK, NL,PL, FI, CZ

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TEMPISTICA E PROGRAMMAZIONE

eXTP • Pre-selected in China, currently in phase 0/A. Possible selection in

2016 or 2017, for a launch in 2024-2025. Participation of the whole LOFT consortium + INAF/OAB + MPE.

LOFT-M5 • ESA M5 call already issued. Proposals due Oct 2016. Selection in

June 2017. Launch in 2029.

LOFT-P • Preparation activities for the Decadal Survey 2020. NASA-funded

mission study currently ongoing. Probe-class. Possible notional mission call end-2016/early-2017. Real mission call early-2020’s. Launch in late-2020’s.

Current support: TECNO-INAF and ASI (future missions call).

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BONUS TRACK: LOFT PATHFINDER

LOFT-pathfinder 1-m2 experiment on ISS (Russian segment) to be launched in 2020

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THANK YOU

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