The Wide Field Monitor onboard the Chinese-European X-ray mission eXTP

Margarita Hernanz; Søren Brandt; Jeanint 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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The Wide Field Monitor onboard the Chinese-European X-ray mission eXTP

Margarita Hernanz^*, Søren Brandt, Jeanint 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 PliegoHao 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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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 180ºx90ºat an angular resolution of 5 arcmin and 4 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022
Subtitle of host publication	Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Editors	Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510653436
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628335
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Montreal, United States Duration: 17 Jul 2022 → 22 Jul 2022

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	12181
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/Territory	United States
City	Montreal
Period	17/07/22 → 22/07/22

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Keywords

X-ray bursts
X-ray spectroscopy
X-ray timing
coded mask imaging
compact objects: black holes
gamma-ray bursts
gravitational wave events
neutron stars and white dwarfs
silicon drift detectors

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Hernanz, M., Brandt, S., Zand, J., Evangelista, Y., Meuris, A., Tenzer, C., Zampa, G., Orleanski, P., Kalemci, E., Sungur, M., Schanne, S., Zwart, F., de la Rie, R., Laubert, P., van Baren, C., Aitink-Kroes, G., Kuiper, L., Bayer, J., Hedderman, P., ... Xu, Y. (2022). The Wide Field Monitor onboard the Chinese-European X-ray mission eXTP. In J.-W. A. den Herder, S. Nikzad, & K. Nakazawa (Eds.), Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Article 121811Y (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12181). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628335

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The Wide Field Monitor onboard the Chinese-European X-ray mission eXTP. / Hernanz, Margarita; Brandt, Søren; Zand, Jeanint et al.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. ed. / Jan-Willem A. den Herder; Shouleh Nikzad; Kazuhiro Nakazawa. SPIE, 2022. 121811Y (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12181).

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Hernanz M, Brandt S, Zand J, Evangelista Y, Meuris A, Tenzer C et al. The Wide Field Monitor onboard the Chinese-European X-ray mission eXTP. In den Herder JWA, Nikzad S, Nakazawa K, editors, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. SPIE. 2022. 121811Y. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2628335

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