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Conference Papers Year : 2016

The LOFT mission concept: a status update

M. Feroci , E. Bozzo , S. Brandt , M. Hernanz , M. van Der Klis , L.-P. Liu (1) , P. Orleanski , M. Pohl , A. Santangelo (2) , S. Schanne (3) , L. Stella , T. Takahashi , H. Tamura , A. Watts (4) , J. Wilms , S. Zane , S.-N. Zhang , S. Bhattacharyya (5, 6) , I. Agudo , M. Ahangarianabhari , C. Albertus , M. Alford , A. Alpar , D. Altamirano (7) , L. Alvarez , L. Amati (8) , C. Amoros , N. Andersson , A. Antonelli , A. Argan (9) , R. Artigue , B. Artigues , J.-L. Atteia (10) , P. Azzarello , P. Bakala , D. Ballantyne , G. Baldazzi , M. Baldo , S. Balman , M. Barbera , C. van Baren , D. Barret (11) , A. Baykal , M. Begelman , E. Behar (12) , O. Behar , T. Belloni (13) , F. Bernardini (14) , G. Bertuccio , S. Bianchi , A. Bianchini (15) , P. Binko , P. Blay , F. Bocchino (16) , M. Bode , P. Bodin , I. Bombaci , J.-M. Bonnet Bidaud , S. Boutloukos , F. Bouyjou (17) , L. Bradley , J. Braga , M. S. Briggs , E. Brown (18) , M. Buballa , N. Bucciantini , L. Burderi , M. Burgay (19) , M. Bursa , C. Budtz-Jørgensen , E. Cackett , F. Cadoux , Ph. Cais , G. A. Caliandro , R. Campana , S. Campana (13) , X. Cao (20) , F. Capitanio , J. Casares , P. Casella , A. J. Castro-Tirado , E. Cavazzuti , Y. Cavechi , Sébastien Celestin (21) , P. Cerda-Duran , D. Chakrabarty , N. Chamel (22) , F. Château (17) , C. Chen , Y. Chen , J. Chenevez , M. Chernyakova (23, 24) , J. Coker (25) , R. Cole , A. Collura , M. Coriat (11) , R. Cornelisse , L. Costamante , A. Cros , W. Cui (26) , A. Cumming , G. Cusumano , B. Czerny , A. d'Ai , F. d'Ammando , V. d'Elia , Z. Dai (27) , E. del Monte , A. de Luca (20) , 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 (28) , I. Donnarumma , V. Doroshenko (2) , G. Doyle , S. A. Drake , M. Durant , D. Emmanoulopoulos , T. Enoto , M. H. Erkut , P. Esposito , Y. Evangelista , A. Fabian (29) , M. Falanga (30) , Y. Favre , C. Feldman , R. Fender , H. Feng , V. Ferrari , C. Ferrigno , M. Finger , M. H. Finger , G. W. Fraser , M. Frericks , M. Fullekrug (31) , F. Fuschino , M. Gabler , D. K. Galloway , J. L. Gálvez Sanchez , P. Gandhi , Z. Gao , E. Garcia-Berro , B. Gendre , O. Gevin (17) , S. Gezari , A. B. Giles , M. Gilfanov , P. Giommi , G. Giovannini , M. Giroletti (32) , E. Gogus , A. Goldwurm (33) , K. Goluchová , D. Götz (3) , L. Gou , C. Gouiffes (3) , P. Grandi , M. Grassi , J. Greiner (34) , V. Grinberg (35) , P. Groot , M. Gschwender , L. Gualtieri (36) , M. Guedel , C. Guidorzi , L. Guy , D. Haas , P. Haensel , M. Hailey , K. Hamuguchi , F. Hansen , D. H. Hartmann (37) , C. A. Haswell , K. Hebeler , A. Heger , M. Hempel , W. Hermsen (38) , J. Homan , A. Hornstrup , R. Hudec , J. Huovelin , D. Huppenkothen , S. C. Inam , A. Ingram (39) , J. J. M. In'T Zand , G. Israel , K. Iwasawa (32) , L. Izzo (40) , H. M. Jacobs , F. Jetter , T. Johannsen , P. A. Jenke , P. Jonker (41, 38) , J. Josè , P. Kaaret , K. Kalamkar , E. Kalemci , G. Kanbach , V. Karas , D. Karelin , D. Kataria (25) , L. Keek , T. Kennedy , D. Klochkov , W. Kluzniak , E. Koerding (42) , K. Kokkotas , S. Komossa , S. Korpela , C. Kouveliotou , A. F. Kowalski (43) , I. Kreykenbohm , L. M. Kuiper (38) , D. Kunneriath , A. Kurkela , I. Kuvvetli , F. La Franca , C. Labanti , D. Lai (44) , F. K. Lamb , C. Lachaud (33) , P. P. Laubert , F. Lebrun (33) , X. Li (45) , E. Liang (46) , O. Limousin (17) , D. Lin , M. Linares (47) , 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 (11) , C. Malone , I. Mandel , V. Mangano (9) , A. Manousakis , M. Marelli , J. Margueron (48) , M. Marisaldi , S. B. Markoff (4) , A. Markowitz (49) , A. Marinucci , A. Martindale , Gines Martinez Garcia , I. M. Mchardy , G. Medina-Tanco , M. Mehdipour , A. Melatos , M. Mendez , S. Mereghetti (8) , S. Migliari , R. Mignani (25) , M. Michalska , T. Mihara , M. C. Miller , J. M. Miller (50) , T. Mineo , G. Miniutti , S. Morsink , C. Motch , S. Motta (51) , M. Mouchet , Gaël Mouret (11) , J. Mulačová , F. Muleri , T. Muñoz-Darias (7) , I. Negueruela , J. Neilsen , T. Neubert , A. J. Norton , M. Nowak (52) , A. Nucita , P. O'Brien , M. Oertel (48) , P. E. H. Olsen , M. Orienti , M. Orio , M. Orlandini , J. P. Osborne , R. Osten (53) , F. Ozel , L. Pacciani , F. Paerels , S. Paltani , M. Paolillo (54) , 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 (37) , M. Perez-Torres , B. M. Peterson (55) , V. Petracek , C. Pittori , J. Pons , J. Portell , A. Possenti (19) , K. Postnov , J. Poutanen , M. Prakash (56) , I. Prandoni , H. Le Provost , D. Psaltis , J. Pye , J. Qu , D. Rambaud , P. Ramon , G. Ramsay , M. Rapisarda , A. Rashevski (57) , I. Rashevskaya , P. S. Ray , N. Rea (58) , S. Reddy , P. Reig , M. Reina Aranda , R. Remillard , C. Reynolds (59) , L. Rezzolla , M. Ribo , R. de La Rie , A. Riggio , A. Rios , D. H. Rischke , P. Rodríguez-Gil , J. Rodriguez (60) , R. Rohlfs , P. Romano , E. M. R. Rossi (61) , 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 (62) , 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 (25) , 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 (63, 64) , F. Tavecchio , C. Tenzer , F. K. Thielemann , A. Tiengo , L. Tolos , F. Tombesi , J. Tomsick (65) , G. Torok , J. M. Torrejon , D. F. Torres , E. Torresi , A. Tramacere , I. Traulsen (66) , A. Trois , R. Turolla (67) , S. Turriziani , S. Typel , P. Uter , P. Uttley (4) , A. Vacchi , P. Varniere (33) , S. Vaughan , S. Vercellone (16) , M. Vietri , F. H. Vincent , V. Vrba , D. Walton (68) , J. Wang , Z. Wang , S. Watanabe , R. Wawrzaszek , N. Webb (11) , N. Weinberg , H. Wende , P. Wheatley , R. Wijers (4) , R. Wijnands (4) , M. Wille , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , B. Winter , S. J. Walk , K. Wood , S. E. Woosley , X. Wu , R. Xu , W. Yu (69) , F. Yuan , W. Yuan , Y. Yuan (70) , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , L. Zampieri , L. Zdunik , A. Zdziarski , A. Zech (71) , B. Zhang , C. Zhang , S. Zhang , M. Zingale , F. Zwart
1 RU - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey [New Brunswick]
2 IAAT - Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik [Tübingen]
3 AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
4 AI PANNEKOEK - Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek
5 TUT - Tampere University of Technology [Tampere]
6 University of Maryland [College Park]
7 School of Physics and Astronomy [Southampton]
8 IASF-MI - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano
9 IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF
10 LATT - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
11 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
12 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Uppsala / Kiruna]
13 OAB - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
14 Department of Computer Sciences [Scheffield]
15 Colgate University
16 IASF-Pa - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Palermo
17 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
18 UAB - University of Alabama at Birmingham [ Birmingham]
19 OAC - INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
20 LPTMS - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques
21 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
22 ULB - Université libre de Bruxelles
23 DIAS - Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
24 DCU - Dublin City University [Dublin]
25 MSSL - Mullard Space Science Laboratory
26 CAS - Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing]
27 CNITSEC - China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center
28 DTU Compute - Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science [Lyngby]
29 Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge]
30 ISSI - International Space Science Institute [Bern]
31 Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering [Bath]
32 INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
33 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
34 MPE - Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
35 MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
36 IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
37 MATEIS - Matériaux, ingénierie et science [Villeurbanne]
38 SRON - SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
39 Opole University of Technology
40 UNIROMA - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University [Rome]
41 Department of Astrophysics [Nijmegen]
42 IMAPP - Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics
43 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
44 Victoria University [Melbourne]
45 POLYU - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [Hong Kong]
46 CAS - Chinese Academy of Sciences [Changchun Branch]
47 IFM - Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology [Linköping]
48 IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon
49 ECAP - Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics
50 University of Wisconsin-Madison
51 Unict - Università degli studi di Catania = University of Catania
52 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
53 STSci - Space Telescope Science Institute
54 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche [Naples]
55 Columbia University [New York]
56 Stanford University
57 INFN, Sezione di Trieste - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
58 ICE-CSIC - Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai [Barcelona]
59 UOR - University of Reading
60 Departamento de Matemática Aplicada
61 LAAS-RIS - Équipe Robotique et InteractionS
62 AIP - Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam
63 MPIFR - Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
64 AlfA - Argelander-Institut für Astronomie
65 SSL - Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley]
66 CAU - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel = Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel = Université Christian-Albrechts de Kiel
67 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei"
68 Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
69 National University of Defense Technology [China]
70 Princeton University
71 LUTH (UMR_8102) - Laboratoire Univers et Théories
M. Feroci
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E. Bozzo
S. Brandt
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M. Hernanz
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M. van Der Klis
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P. Orleanski
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M. Pohl
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L. Stella
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T. Takahashi
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H. Tamura
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J. Wilms
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S. Zane
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S.-N. Zhang
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I. Agudo
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M. Ahangarianabhari
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C. Albertus
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M. Alford
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A. Alpar
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L. Alvarez
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C. Amoros
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N. Andersson
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A. Antonelli
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R. Artigue
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B. Artigues
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P. Azzarello
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P. Bakala
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D. Ballantyne
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G. Baldazzi
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M. Baldo
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S. Balman
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M. Barbera
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C. van Baren
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A. Baykal
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M. Begelman
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O. Behar
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G. Bertuccio
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S. Bianchi
A. Bianchini
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P. Binko
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P. Blay
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M. Bode
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P. Bodin
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I. Bombaci
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J.-M. Bonnet Bidaud
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S. Boutloukos
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L. Bradley
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J. Braga
M. S. Briggs
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M. Buballa
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N. Bucciantini
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L. Burderi
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M. Bursa
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C. Budtz-Jørgensen
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E. Cackett
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F. Cadoux
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Ph. Cais
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G. A. Caliandro
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R. Campana
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F. Capitanio
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J. Casares
P. Casella
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A. J. Castro-Tirado
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E. Cavazzuti
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Y. Cavechi
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P. Cerda-Duran
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D. Chakrabarty
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C. Chen
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Y. Chen
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J. Chenevez
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R. Cole
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A. Collura
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R. Cornelisse
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L. Costamante
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A. Cros
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A. Cumming
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G. Cusumano
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B. Czerny
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A. d'Ai
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F. d'Ammando
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V. d'Elia
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E. del Monte
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D. de Martino
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J. P. C. Dercksen
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M. de Pasquale
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A. de Rosa
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M. del Santo
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S. Di Cosimo
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N. Degenaar
J. W. den Herder
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S. Diebold
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T. Di Salvo
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I. Donnarumma
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G. Doyle
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S. A. Drake
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M. Durant
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D. Emmanoulopoulos
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T. Enoto
M. H. Erkut
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P. Esposito
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Y. Evangelista
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A. Fabian
Y. Favre
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C. Feldman
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R. Fender
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H. Feng
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V. Ferrari
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C. Ferrigno
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M. Finger
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M. H. Finger
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G. W. Fraser
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M. Frericks
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F. Fuschino
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M. Gabler
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D. K. Galloway
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J. L. Gálvez Sanchez
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P. Gandhi
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Z. Gao
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E. Garcia-Berro
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B. Gendre
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S. Gezari
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A. B. Giles
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M. Gilfanov
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P. Giommi
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G. Giovannini
E. Gogus
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K. Goluchová
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L. Gou
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P. Grandi
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M. Grassi
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P. Groot
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M. Gschwender
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M. Guedel
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C. Guidorzi
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L. Guy
D. Haas
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P. Haensel
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M. Hailey
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K. Hamuguchi
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F. Hansen
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C. A. Haswell
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K. Hebeler
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A. Heger
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M. Hempel
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J. Homan
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A. Hornstrup
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R. Hudec
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J. Huovelin
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D. Huppenkothen
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S. C. Inam
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J. J. M. In'T Zand
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G. Israel
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H. M. Jacobs
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F. Jetter
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T. Johannsen
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P. A. Jenke
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J. Josè
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P. Kaaret
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K. Kalamkar
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E. Kalemci
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G. Kanbach
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V. Karas
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D. Karelin
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L. Keek
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T. Kennedy
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D. Klochkov
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W. Kluzniak
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K. Kokkotas
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S. Komossa
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S. Korpela
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C. Kouveliotou
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I. Kreykenbohm
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D. Kunneriath
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A. Kurkela
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I. Kuvvetli
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F. La Franca
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C. Labanti
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F. K. Lamb
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P. P. Laubert
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F. Lebrun
D. Lin
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D. Linder
G. Lodato
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F. Longo
F. Lu
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N. Lund
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T. J. Maccarone
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D. Macera
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S. Maestre
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S. Mahmoodifar
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D. Maier
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P. Malcovati
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C. Malone
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I. Mandel
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A. Manousakis
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M. Marelli
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J. Margueron
M. Marisaldi
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A. Marinucci
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A. Martindale
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Gines Martinez Garcia
I. M. Mchardy
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G. Medina-Tanco
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M. Mehdipour
A. Melatos
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M. Mendez
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S. Migliari
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M. Michalska
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T. Mihara
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M. C. Miller
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T. Mineo
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G. Miniutti
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S. Morsink
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C. Motch
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M. Mouchet
J. Mulačová
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F. Muleri
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I. Negueruela
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J. Neilsen
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T. Neubert
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A. J. Norton
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A. Nucita
P. O'Brien
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P. E. H. Olsen
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M. Orienti
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M. Orio
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M. Orlandini
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J. P. Osborne
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F. Ozel
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L. Pacciani
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F. Paerels
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S. Paltani
I. Papadakis
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A. Papitto
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Z. Paragi
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J. M. Paredes
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A. Patruno
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B. Paul
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F. Pederiva
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E. Perinati
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A. Pellizzoni
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A. V. Penacchioni
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U. Peretz
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M. Perez-Torres
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V. Petracek
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C. Pittori
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J. Pons
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J. Portell
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K. Postnov
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J. Poutanen
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M. Prakash
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I. Prandoni
H. Le Provost
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D. Psaltis
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J. Pye
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J. Qu
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D. Rambaud
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P. Ramon
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G. Ramsay
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M. Rapisarda
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I. Rashevskaya
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P. S. Ray
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S. Reddy
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P. Reig
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M. Reina Aranda
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R. Remillard
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L. Rezzolla
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M. Ribo
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R. de La Rie
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A. Riggio
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A. Rios
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D. H. Rischke
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P. Rodríguez-Gil
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J. Rodriguez
R. Rohlfs
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P. Romano
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A. Rozanska
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A. Rousseau
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B. Rudak
D. M. Russell
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F. Ryde
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L. Sabau-Graziati
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T. Sakamoto
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G. Sala
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R. Salvaterra
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D. Salvetti
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A. Sanna
J. Sandberg
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T. Savolainen
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S. Scaringi
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J. Schaffner-Bielich
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H. Schatz
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J. Schee
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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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hal-01400682 , version 1 (20-05-2020)

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M. Feroci, E. Bozzo, S. Brandt, M. Hernanz, M. van Der Klis, et al.. The LOFT mission concept: a status update. Proceedings of the SPIE,, Jun 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. ⟨10.1117/12.2233161⟩. ⟨hal-01400682⟩
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