Fast timing instrument for XEUS: scientific expectations

Jorn Wilms; Eckhard Kendziorra; Michael Martin; Didier Barret; Michael A. Nowak; Lothar Strueder; Peter Lechner

doi:10.1117/12.550776

11 October 2004 Fast timing instrument for XEUS: scientific expectations

Jorn Wilms, Eckhard Kendziorra, Michael Martin, Didier Barret, Michael A. Nowak, Lothar Strueder, Peter Lechner

Proceedings Volume 5488, UV and Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Systems; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550776
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

X-ray timing with musec time resolution can be used to probe strong gravity fields around collapsed objects and to constrain the equation of state of dense matter in neutron stars. With its large collecting area, XEUS will be ideally suited for very high signal to noise studies of such objects. An instrument dedicated to X-ray timing of bright Galactic sources has thus been foreseen as part of the XEUS instrumentation. In this contribution we present numerical simulations for silicon based detectors (silicon drift detectors and pixel based sensors) for a variety of astrophysical sources such as neutron star power spectra (including kHz quasi-periodic oscillations) and black hole lightcurves to illustrate the expected scientific capabilities of the fast timing mode instrument.

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Jorn Wilms, Eckhard Kendziorra, Michael Martin, Didier Barret, Michael A. Nowak, Lothar Strueder, and Peter Lechner "Fast timing instrument for XEUS: scientific expectations", Proc. SPIE 5488, UV and Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Systems, (11 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550776

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Sensors

Stars

X-rays

Monte Carlo methods

Silicon

X-ray astronomy

Charge-coupled devices

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