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astro-ph.IM2014★ 55 cited

The ASTRO-H X-ray Astronomy Satellite

Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard Kelley +250

The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), with a planne…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 38 cited

The LOFAR long baseline snapshot calibrator survey

J. Moldón, A. T. Deller, O. Wucknitz +82

Aims. An efficient means of locating calibrator sources for International LOFAR is developed and used to determine the average density of usable calibrator sources on the sky for s…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 35 cited

New methods to constrain the radio transient rate: results from a survey of four fields with LOFAR

D. Carbone, A. J. van der Horst, R. A. M. J. Wijers +23

We report on the results of a search for radio transients between 115 and 190\,MHz with the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR). Four fields have been monitored with cadences between 15 mi…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 38 cited

Calibration and in orbit performance of the reflection grating spectrometer onboard XMM-Newton

C. P. de Vries, J. W. den Herder, C. Gabriel +6

Context: XMM-Newton was launched on 10 December 1999 and has been operational since early 2000. One of the instruments onboard XMM-Newton is the reflection grating spectrometer (RG…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 12 cited

The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing

M. Feroci, J. W. den Herder, E. Bozzo +341

The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) was studied within ESA M3 Cosmic Vision framework and participated in the final down-selection for a launch slot in 2022-2024. Thanks…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 1 cited

The LOFT Ground Segment

E. Bozzo, A. Antonelli, A. Argan +27

LOFT, the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing, was one of the ESA M3 mission candidates that completed their assessment phase at the end of 2013. LOFT is equipped with two instrumen…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 6 cited

The design of the wide field monitor for LOFT

S. Brandt, M. Hernanz, L. Alvarez +41

LOFT (Large Observatory For x-ray Timing) is one of the ESA M3 missions selected within the Cosmic Vision program in 2011 to carry out an assessment phase study and compete for a l…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 7 cited

The Large Area Detector of LOFT: the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing

S. Zane, D. Walton, T. Kennedy +56

LOFT (Large Observatory for X-ray Timing) is one of the five candidates that were considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024) and has been studied during an exten…

astro-ph.IM2014

Optimisation of the design for the LOFT Large Area Detector Module

D. Walton, B. Winter, S. Zane +25

LOFT (Large Observatory for X-ray Timing) is an X-ray timing observatory that, with four other candidates, was considered by ESA as an M3 mission (with launch in 2022-2024) and has…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 2 cited

Hyper-velocity impact test and simulation of a double-wall shield concept for the Wide Field Monitor aboard LOFT

E. Perinati, M. Rott, A. Santangelo +10

The space mission LOFT (Large Observatory For X-ray Timing) was selected in 2011 by ESA as one of the candidates for the M3 launch opportunity. LOFT is equipped with two instrument…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 14 cited

Performance of Hybrid NbTiN-Al Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors as Direct Detectors for Sub-millimeter Astronomy

R. M. J. Janssen, J. J. A. Baselmans, A. Endo +4

In the next decades millimeter and sub-mm astronomy requires large format imaging arrays and broad-band spectrometers to complement the high spatial and spectral resolution of the…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 109 cited

LOFAR Sparse Image Reconstruction

H. Garsden, J. N. Girard, J. L. Starck +77

Context. The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope is a giant digital phased array interferometer with multiple antennas distributed in Europe. It provides discrete sets of F…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 6 cited

The effect of sideband ratio on line intensity for Herschel/HIFI

Ronan Higgins, David Teyssier, Colin Borys +8

The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) on board the Herschel Space Observatory is composed of a set of fourteen double sideband mixers. We discuss the general proble…