The STROBE-X Wide Field Monitor Instrument
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| author | Remillard, Ronald A. Hernanz, Margarita Zand, Jean in 't Ray, Paul S. Bonvicini, Valter Brandt, Søren Brandt, Terri Carmona, Alex Evangelista, Yuri Franco, Daniel Alvarez Froning, Cynthia Galvez, Jose-Luis De Geronimo, Gianluigi Grim, Martin Kalemci, Emrah Kuiper, Lucien Kuvvetli, Irfan Maccarone, Thomas J. Nowosielski, Witold Pasham, Dheeraj R. R. Patruno, Alessandro Persyn, Steven C. Roming, Peter W. A. Santangelo, Andrea Schanne, Stephane Tenzer, Christoph Wilson-Hodge, Colleen A. Zampa, Gianluigi Zwart, Frans |
| author_facet | Remillard, Ronald A. Hernanz, Margarita Zand, Jean in 't Ray, Paul S. Bonvicini, Valter Brandt, Søren Brandt, Terri Carmona, Alex Evangelista, Yuri Franco, Daniel Alvarez Froning, Cynthia Galvez, Jose-Luis De Geronimo, Gianluigi Grim, Martin Kalemci, Emrah Kuiper, Lucien Kuvvetli, Irfan Maccarone, Thomas J. Nowosielski, Witold Pasham, Dheeraj R. R. Patruno, Alessandro Persyn, Steven C. Roming, Peter W. A. Santangelo, Andrea Schanne, Stephane Tenzer, Christoph Wilson-Hodge, Colleen A. Zampa, Gianluigi Zwart, Frans |
| contents | The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) is one of the three instruments on the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) mission, which was proposed in response to the NASA 2023 call for a probe class mission. The WFM is a coded-mask camera system that would be the most scientifically capable wide-angle monitor ever flown. The field of view covers one third of the sky, to 50 percent mask coding, and the energy sensitivity is 2 to 50 keV. The WFM is designed to identify new X-ray transients and to capture spectral and timing changes in known sources with data of unprecedented quality. Science applications cover diverse classes, in including X-ray bursts that coincide with gravitational wave detections, gamma ray bursts and their transition from prompt emission to afterglow, subluminous GRBs that may signal shock breakout in supernovae, state transitions in accreting compact objects and their jets, bright flares in fast X-ray transients, accretion onset in transitional pulsars, and coronal flares from many types of active stars. |
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| spellingShingle | The STROBE-X Wide Field Monitor Instrument Remillard, Ronald A. Hernanz, Margarita Zand, Jean in 't Ray, Paul S. Bonvicini, Valter Brandt, Søren Brandt, Terri Carmona, Alex Evangelista, Yuri Franco, Daniel Alvarez Froning, Cynthia Galvez, Jose-Luis De Geronimo, Gianluigi Grim, Martin Kalemci, Emrah Kuiper, Lucien Kuvvetli, Irfan Maccarone, Thomas J. Nowosielski, Witold Pasham, Dheeraj R. R. Patruno, Alessandro Persyn, Steven C. Roming, Peter W. A. Santangelo, Andrea Schanne, Stephane Tenzer, Christoph Wilson-Hodge, Colleen A. Zampa, Gianluigi Zwart, Frans Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) is one of the three instruments on the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) mission, which was proposed in response to the NASA 2023 call for a probe class mission. The WFM is a coded-mask camera system that would be the most scientifically capable wide-angle monitor ever flown. The field of view covers one third of the sky, to 50 percent mask coding, and the energy sensitivity is 2 to 50 keV. The WFM is designed to identify new X-ray transients and to capture spectral and timing changes in known sources with data of unprecedented quality. Science applications cover diverse classes, in including X-ray bursts that coincide with gravitational wave detections, gamma ray bursts and their transition from prompt emission to afterglow, subluminous GRBs that may signal shock breakout in supernovae, state transitions in accreting compact objects and their jets, bright flares in fast X-ray transients, accretion onset in transitional pulsars, and coronal flares from many types of active stars. |
| title | The STROBE-X Wide Field Monitor Instrument |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12015 |