The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT)

Experimental Astronomy - Tập 34 Số 2 - Trang 415-444 - 2012
M. Feroci1, L. Stella2, M. van der Klis3, T. J. L. Courvoisier4, M. Hernanz5, R. Hudec6, A. Santangelo7, D. Walton8, A. A. Zdziarski9, D. Barret10, T. Belloni11, J. Braga12, S. Brandt13, Carl Budtz-Jørgensen13, S. Campana11, J. W. den Herder14, J. Huovelin15, G. L. Israel2, M. Pohl16, Paul S. Ray17, A. Vacchi18, Silvia Zane8, A. Argan19, Primo Attiná20, G. Bertuccio21, E. Bozzo4, R. Campana22, Deepto Chakrabarty23, E. Costa1, A. De Rosa1, E. Del Monte22, Sergio Di Cosimo1, I. Donnarumma1, Y. Evangelista1, D. Haas14, P. G. Jonker14, Seppo Korpela15, C. Labanti24, P. Malcovati25, Roberto Mignani8, Fabio Muleri1, M. Rapisarda22, A. Rashevsky18, N. Rea5, A. Rubini22, C. Tenzer7, C. Wilson-Hodge26, B. Winter8, K. S. Wood17, G. Zampa18, N. Zampa18, Marek A. Abramowicz27, M. A. Alpar28, D. Altamirano5, José M. Alvarez5, L. Amati29, C. Amoros10, L. A. Antonelli2, Romain Artigue10, P. Azzarello4, Matteo Bachetti10, G. Baldazzi30, Marco Barbera31, C. Barbieri32, S. Basa33, A. Baykal34, R. Belmont10, L. Boirin35, V. Bonvicini18, L. Burderi36, Milan Burša37, C. Cabanac10, Edward M. Cackett38, G. A. Caliandro5, P. Casella39, S. Chaty40, J. Chenevez13, M. J. Coe39, A. Collura31, A. Corongiu41, S. Covino11, G. Cusumano42, F. D’Amico12, S. Dall’Osso43, D. de Martino44, G. De Paris19, G. Di Persio1, T. Di Salvo31, Chris Done45, Michal Dovčiak37, A. Drago46, Ünal Ertan28, Sergio Fabiani1, M. Falanga47, Rob Fender39, P. Ferrando40, Desirée Della Monica Ferreira13, George W. Fraser48, F. Frontera46, F. Fuschino29, José Luis Gálvez5, P. Gandhi49, P. Giommi50, O. Godet10, E. Göğüş28, A. Goldwurm40, D. Götz40, M. Grassi25, P. Guttridge8, Pasi Hakala51, G. Henri52, W. Hermsen14, Jiří Horák37, A. Hornstrup13, J. J. M. in’t Zand14, J. Isern5, Emrah Kalemci28, G. Kanbach53, V. Karas37, D. O. Kataria8, T. Kennedy8, D. Klochkov7, W. Kluźniak9, Kostas D. Kokkotas7, I. Kreykenbohm54, Julian H. Krolik55, L. Kuiper14, I. Kuvvetli13, N. D. Kylafis56, James M. Lattimer57, F. Lazzarotto1, D. A. Leahy58, F. Lebrun40, Dacheng Lin10, N. Lund13, Thomas J. Maccarone39, J. Malzac10, M. Marisaldi59, A. Martindale48, M. Mastropietro1, Jeffrey E. McClintock60, I. M. McHardy39, Mariano Méndez61, S. Mereghetti62, M. Coleman Miller63, T. Mineo42, E. Morelli1, Sharon M. Morsink64, C. Motch35, S. Motta11, T. Muñoz-Darias11, G. Naletto32, V. Neustroev65, J. Nevalainen51, J. F. Olive10, Marina Orio66, M. Orlandini59, P. Orleański67, Feryal Özel68, L. Pacciani22, S. Paltani56, I. E. Papadakis56, A. Papitto41, A. Patruno3, A. Pellizzoni41, V. Petráček6, Jérôme Pétri35, P.-O. Petrucci52, Bernard F. Phlips17, L. Picolli25, A. Possenti41, Dimitrios Psaltis69, D. Rambaud10, P. Reig56, Ron Remillard23, J. Rodríguez40, P. Romano42, M. M. Romanova70, T. Schanz7, Christian Schmid54, A. Segreto42, A. Shearer71, A. Smith8, Phil Smith8, P. Soffitta1, Nikolaos Stergioulas72, M. Stolarski67, Zdeněk Stuchlík73, A. Tiengo62, D. F. Torres5, Gabriel Török73, R. Turolla32, P. Uttley39, S. Vaughan48, S. Vercellone42, Rens Waters14, Anna L. Watts3, R. Wawrzaszek67, N. Webb10, J. Wilms54, L. Zampieri74, A. Zezas56, Janusz Ziółkowski9
1INAF/IASF-Roma, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Roma, Italy
2INAF/OAR, Via di Frascati 33, 00040, Monteporzio Catone, Italy
3Astronomical Institute ‘Anton Pannekoek’, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4ISDC, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
5IEEC-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
6Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
7Tuebingen University, Tübigen, Germany
8MSSL-UCL, Surrey, UK
9N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland
10IRAP, Toulouse, France
11INAF/OA Brera, Milan, Italy
12INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
13DTU Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
14SRON Utrecht, The Netherlands
15Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
16DPNC, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
17NRL, Washington, USA
18INFN, Trieste, Italy
19INAF Headquarters, Rome, Italy
20Thales-Alenia, Turin, Italy
21Politecnico Milano, Milan, Italy
22INFN Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
23MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
24INAF – IASF – Bologna, Bologna, Italy
25Pavia University, Pavia, Italy
26NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL, USA
27Goteborg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
28Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
29INAF-IASF-Bologna, Bologna, Italy
30INFN, Bologna, Italy
31Palermo University, Palermo, Italy
32Padova University, Padua, Italy
33LAM—Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille, France
34Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
35Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
36Cagliari University, Cagliari, Italy
37Prague Astron. Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
38Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
39Southampton University, Hampshire, UK
40CEA Saclay, Gi-sur-Yvette, France
41INAF/OA Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
42INAF/IASF-Palermo, Palermo, Italy
43Racah Institute of Physics, Jerusalem, Israel
44INAF/OA Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy
45Durham University, Durham, UK
46Ferrara University, Ferrara, Italy
47ISSI Bern, Bern, Switzerland
48Leicester University, Leicester, UK
49SAS/JAXA, Kanagawa, Japan
50ASI, Rome, Italy
51FINCA, Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, Pïïkkiö, Finland
52Laboratoire Astrophysique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
53MPE, Garching, Germany
54University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
55Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
56Crete University, Crete, Greece
57State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA
58University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
59INAF/IASF-Bologna, Bologna, Italy
60Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
61Groningen University, Groningen, Netherlands
62INAF, IASF-Milano, Milan, Italy
63University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
64University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
65Oulu University, Oulu, Finland
66INAF/OA Torino, Turin, Italy
67Space Research Centre, Warsaw, Poland
68University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA
69University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
70Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
71Galway University, Galway, Ireland
72Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
73Silesian University in Opava, Opava, Czech Republic
74INAF/OA Padova, Padua, Italy

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