Published July 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Novel X-ray telescopes for wide-field X-ray monitoring

  • 1. Academy of science of Czech Republic, Ondrejov (Czech Republic)
  • 2. Centre for advanced X-ray technologies Reflex sro, Prague (Czech Republic)
  • 3. Czech Technical Univ., Prague (Czech Republic). Faculty of Nuclear Science

Description

We report on fully innovative very wide-field of view X-ray telescopes with high sensitivity as well as large field of view. The prototypes are very promising, allowing the proposals for space projects with very wide-field Lobster-eye X-ray optics to be considered. The novel telescopes will monitor the sky with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution of order of 1 arcmin. They are expected to contribute essentially to study and to understand various astrophysical objects such as AGN, SNe, Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), X-ray flashes (XRFs), galactic binary sources, stars, CVs, X-ray novae, various transient sources, etc. The Lobster optics based X-ray All Sky Monitor is capable to detect around 20 GRBs and 8 XRFs yearly and this will surely significantly contribute to the related science

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Also avalaible from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1393/ncc/i2005-10144-y

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Journal Title
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica. C, Geophysics and Space Physics
Journal Volume
28C
Journal Issue
4-5
Journal Page Range
p. 743-746
ISSN
1124-1896