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The scientific performance of the Microchannel X-ray Telescope on board the SVOM mission

D. Götz
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C. Feldman
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The Microchannel X-ray Telescope (MXT) will be the first focusing X-ray telescope based on a "Lobster-Eye" optical design to be flown on Sino-French mission SVOM. SVOM will be dedicated to the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts and more generally time-domain astrophysics. The MXT telescope is a compact (focal length ~ 1.15 m) and light (< 42 kg) instrument, sensitive in the 0.2--10 keV energy range. It is composed of an optical system, based on micro-pore optics (MPOs) of 40 micron pore size, coupled to a low-noise pnCDD X-ray detector. In this paper we describe the expected scientific performance of the MXT telescope, based on the End-to-End calibration campaign performed in fall 2021, before the integration of the SVOM payload on the satellite.

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hal-03894705 , version 1 (12-12-2022)

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D. Götz, M. Boutelier, V. Burwitz, R. Chipaux, B. Cordier, et al.. The scientific performance of the Microchannel X-ray Telescope on board the SVOM mission. Exper.Astron., 2023, 55 (2), pp.487-519. ⟨10.1007/s10686-022-09881-6⟩. ⟨hal-03894705⟩
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