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The Large Observatory for x-ray timing
Author(s): M. Feroci; J. W. den Herder; E. Bozzo; D. Barret; S. Brandt; M. Hernanz; M. van der Klis; M. Pohl; A. Santangelo; L. Stella; A. Watts; J. Wilms; S. Zane; M. Ahangarianabhari; C. Albertus; M. Alford; A. Alpar; D. Altamirano; L. Alvarez; L. Amati; C. Amoros; N. Andersson; A. Antonelli; A. Argan; R. Artigue; B. Artigues; J.-L. Atteia; P. Azzarello; P. Bakala; G. Baldazzi; S. Balman; M. Barbera; C. van Baren; S. Bhattacharyya; A. Baykal; T. Belloni; F. Bernardini; G. Bertuccio; S. Bianchi; A. Bianchini; P. Binko; P. Blay; F. Bocchino; P. Bodin; I. Bombaci; J.-M. Bonnet Bidaud; S. Boutloukos; L. Bradley; J. Braga; E. Brown; N. Bucciantini; L. Burderi; M. Burgay; M. Bursa; C. Budtz-Jørgensen; E. Cackett; F. R. Cadoux; P. Caïs; G. A. Caliandro; R. Campana; S. Campana; F. Capitanio; J. Casares; P. Casella; A. J. Castro-Tirado; E. Cavazzuti; P. Cerda-Duran; D. Chakrabarty; F. Château; J. Chenevez; J. Coker; R. Cole; A. Collura; R. Cornelisse; T. Courvoisier; A. Cros; A. Cumming; G. Cusumano; A. D'Ai; V. D'Elia; E. Del Monte; A. de Luca; D. de Martino; J. P. C. Dercksen; M. de Pasquale; A. De Rosa; M. Del Santo; S. Di Cosimo; S. Diebold; T. Di Salvo; I. Donnarumma; A. Drago; M. Durant; D. Emmanoulopoulos; M. H. Erkut; P. Esposito; Y. Evangelista; A. Fabian; M. Falanga; Y. Favre; C. Feldman; V. Ferrari; C. Ferrigno; M. Finger; M. H. Finger; G. W. Fraser; M. Frericks; F. Fuschino; M. Gabler; D. K. Galloway; J. L. Galvez Sanchez; E. Garcia-Berro; B. Gendre; S. Gezari; A. B. Giles; M. Gilfanov; P. Giommi; G. Giovannini; M. Giroletti; E. Gogus; A. Goldwurm; K. Goluchová; D. Götz; C. Gouiffes; M. Grassi; P. Groot; M. Gschwender; L. Gualtieri; C. Guidorzi; L. Guy; D. Haas; P. Haensel; M. Hailey; F. Hansen; D. H. Hartmann; C. A. Haswell; K. Hebeler; A. Heger; W. Hermsen; J. Homan; A. Hornstrup; R. Hudec; J. Huovelin; A. Ingram; J. J. M. In't Zand; G. Israel; K. Iwasawa; L. Izzo; H. M. Jacobs; F. Jetter; T. Johannsen; P. Jonker; J. Josè; P. Kaaret; G. Kanbach; V. Karas; D. Karelin; D. Kataria; L. Keek; T. Kennedy; D. Klochkov; W. Kluzniak; K. Kokkotas; S. Korpela; C. Kouveliotou; I. Kreykenbohm; L. M. Kuiper; I. Kuvvetli; C. Labanti; D. Lai; F. K. Lamb; P. P. Laubert; F. Lebrun; D. Lin; D. Linder; G. Lodato; F. Longo; N. Lund; T. J. Maccarone; D. Macera; S. Maestre; S. Mahmoodifar; D. Maier; P. Malcovati; I. Mandel; V. Mangano; A. Manousakis; M. Marisaldi; A. Markowitz; A. Martindale; G. Matt; I. M. McHardy; A. Melatos; M. Mendez; S. Mereghetti; M. Michalska; S. Migliari; R. Mignani; M. C. Miller; J. M. Miller; T. Mineo; G. Miniutti; S. Morsink; C. Motch; S. Motta; M. Mouchet; G. Mouret; J. Mulačová; F. Muleri; T. Muñoz-Darias; I. Negueruela; J. Neilsen; A. J. Norton; M. Nowak; P. O'Brien; P. E. H. Olsen; M. Orienti; M. Orio; M. Orlandini; P. Orleański; J. P. Osborne; R. Osten; F. Ozel; L. Pacciani; M. Paolillo; A. Papitto; J. M. Paredes; A. Patruno; B. Paul; E. Perinati; A. Pellizzoni; A. V. Penacchioni; M. A. Perez; V. Petracek; C. Pittori; J. Pons; J. Portell; A. Possenti; J. Poutanen; M. Prakash; P. Le Provost; D. Psaltis; D. Rambaud; P. Ramon; G. Ramsay; M. Rapisarda; A. Rachevski; I. Rashevskaya; P. S. Ray; N. Rea; S. Reddy; P. Reig; M. Reina Aranda; R. Remillard; C. Reynolds; L. Rezzolla; M. Ribo; R. de la Rie; A. Riggio; A. Rios; P. Rodríguez-Gil; J. Rodriguez; R. Rohlfs; P. Romano; E. M. R. Rossi; A. Rozanska; A. Rousseau; F. Ryde; L. Sabau-Graziati; G. Sala; R. Salvaterra; A. Sanna; J. Sandberg; S. Scaringi; S. Schanne; J. Schee; C. Schmid; S. Shore; R. Schneider; A. Schwenk; A. D. Schwope; J.-Y. Seyler; A. Shearer; A. Smith; D. M. Smith; P. J. Smith; V. Sochora; P. Soffitta; P. Soleri; A. Spencer; B. Stappers; A. W. Steiner; N. Stergioulas; G. Stratta; T. E. Strohmayer; Z. Stuchlik; S. Suchy; V. Sulemainov; T. Takahashi; F. Tamburini; T. Tauris; C. Tenzer; L. Tolos; F. Tombesi; J. Tomsick; G. Torok; J. M. Torrejon; D. F. Torres; A. Tramacere; A. Trois; R. Turolla; S. Turriziani; P. Uter; P. Uttley; A. Vacchi; P. Varniere; S. Vaughan; S. Vercellone; V. Vrba; D. Walton; S. Watanabe; R. Wawrzaszek; N. Webb; N. Weinberg; H. Wende; P. Wheatley; R. Wijers; R. Wijnands; M. Wille; C. A. Wilson-Hodge; B. Winter; K. Wood; G. Zampa; N. Zampa; L. Zampieri; L. Zdunik; A. Zdziarski; B. Zhang; F. Zwart; M. Ayre; T. Boenke; C. Corral van Damme; Erik Kuulkers; D. Lumb
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Paper Abstract

The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) was studied within ESA M3 Cosmic Vision framework and participated in the final downselection for a launch slot in 2022-2024. Thanks to the unprecedented combination of effective area and spectral resolution of its main instrument, LOFT will study the behaviour of matter under extreme conditions, such as the strong gravitational field in the innermost regions of accretion flows close to black holes and neutron stars, and the supranuclear densities in the interior of neutron stars. The science payload is based on a Large Area Detector (LAD, 10 m2 effective area, 2-30 keV, 240 eV spectral resolution, 1° collimated field of view) and a Wide Field Monitor (WFM, 2-50 keV, 4 steradian field of view, 1 arcmin source location accuracy, 300 eV spectral resolution). The WFM is equipped with an on-board system for bright events (e.g. GRB) localization. The trigger time and position of these events are broadcast to the ground within 30 s from discovery. In this paper we present the status of the mission at the end of its Phase A study.

Paper Details

Date Published: 31 July 2014
PDF: 20 pages
Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 91442T (31 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2055913
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M. Feroci, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
INFN (Italy)
J. W. den Herder, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
E. Bozzo, ISDC Data Ctr. for Astrophysics, Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
D. Barret, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France)
S. Brandt, DTU Space (France)
M. Hernanz, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC (Spain)
M. van der Klis, Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
M. Pohl, Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
A. Santangelo, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
L. Stella, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (Italy)
A. Watts, Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
J. Wilms, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
S. Zane, Mullard Space Science Lab. (United Kingdom)
M. Ahangarianabhari, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
C. Albertus, Univ. de Granada (Spain)
M. Alford, Washington Univ. (United States)
A. Alpar, Sabanci Univ. (Turkey)
D. Altamirano, Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
L. Alvarez, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC (Spain)
L. Amati, INAF - IASF Bologna (Italy)
C. Amoros, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France)
N. Andersson, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)
A. Antonelli, ASI Science Data Ctr. (Italy)
A. Argan, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
R. Artigue, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France)
B. Artigues, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC (Spain)
J.-L. Atteia, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France)
P. Azzarello, ISDC Data Ctr. for Astrophysics, Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
P. Bakala, Silesian Univ. in Opava (Czech Republic)
G. Baldazzi, Univ. degli Studi di Bologna (Italy)
S. Balman, Middle East Technical Univ. (Turkey)
M. Barbera, Univ. degli Studi di Palermo (Italy)
INAF- Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (Italy)
C. van Baren, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
S. Bhattacharyya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (India)
A. Baykal, Middle East Technical Univ. (Turkey)
T. Belloni, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
F. Bernardini, Wayne State Univ. (United States)
G. Bertuccio, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
S. Bianchi, Univ. degli Studi di Roma Tre (Italy)
A. Bianchini, Vicolo Osservatorio, Univ. degli Studi di Padova (Italy)
P. Binko, ISDC Data Ctr. for Astrophysics, Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
P. Blay, Univ. de València (Spain)
F. Bocchino, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy)
P. Bodin, Ctr. National d'Études Spatiales (France)
I. Bombaci, Univ. degli Studi di Pisa (Italy)
J.-M. Bonnet Bidaud, CEA-IRFU (France)
S. Boutloukos, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
L. Bradley, Mullard Space Science Lab. (United Kingdom)
J. Braga, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil)
E. Brown, Michigan State Univ. (United States)
N. Bucciantini, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Italy)
L. Burderi, Univ. degli Studi di Cagliari (Italy)
M. Burgay, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (Italy)
M. Bursa, Astronomical Institute of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
C. Budtz-Jørgensen, DTU Space (Denmark)
E. Cackett, Wayne State Univ. (United States)
F. R. Cadoux, Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
P. Caïs, Lab. d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, CNRS, Univ. de Bordeaux (France)
G. A. Caliandro, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC (Spain)
R. Campana, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
INFN (Italy)
S. Campana, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
F. Capitanio, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
J. Casares, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain)
P. Casella, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (Italy)
A. J. Castro-Tirado, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (Spain)
E. Cavazzuti, ASI Science Data Ctr. (Italy)
P. Cerda-Duran, Univ. de València (Spain)
D. Chakrabarty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
F. Château, CEA-IRFU (France)
J. Chenevez, DTU Space (Denmark)
J. Coker, Mullard Space Science Lab. (United Kingdom)
R. Cole, Mullard Space Science Lab. (United Kingdom)
A. Collura, INAF- Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (Italy)
R. Cornelisse, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain)
T. Courvoisier, ISDC Data Ctr. for Astrophysics, Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
A. Cros, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France)
A. Cumming, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (Italy)
G. Cusumano, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo (Italy)
A. D'Ai, Univ. degli Studi di Palermo (Italy)
V. D'Elia, ASI Science Data Ctr. (Italy)
E. Del Monte, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
INFN (Italy)
A. de Luca, INAF - IASF Milano (Italy)
D. de Martino, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte (Italy)
J. P. C. Dercksen, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
M. de Pasquale, Mullard Space Science Lab. (United Kingdom)
A. De Rosa, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
M. Del Santo, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
S. Di Cosimo, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
S. Diebold, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
T. Di Salvo, Univ. degli Studi di Palermo (Italy)
I. Donnarumma, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
A. Drago, Univ. degli Studi di Ferrara (Italy)
M. Durant, Univ. of Toronto (Canada)
D. Emmanoulopoulos, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)
M. H. Erkut, Istanbul Kültür Univ. (Turkey)
P. Esposito, INAF-IASF Milano (Italy)
Y. Evangelista, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
INFN (Italy)
A. Fabian, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
M. Falanga, International Space Science Institute (Switzerland)
Y. Favre, Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
C. Feldman, Univ. of Leicester (United Kingdom)
V. Ferrari, Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
C. Ferrigno, ISDC Data Ctr. for Astrophysics, Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
M. Finger, Charles Univ. in Prague (Czech Republic)
M. H. Finger, Universities Space Research Association (United States)
G. W. Fraser, Univ. of Leicester (United Kingdom)
M. Frericks, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
F. Fuschino, INAF - IASF Bologna (Italy)
M. Gabler, Univ. de València (Spain)
D. K. Galloway, Monash Univ. (Australia)
J. L. Galvez Sanchez, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC (Spain)
E. Garcia-Berro, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC (Spain)
B. Gendre, ASI Science Data Ctr. (Italy)
S. Gezari, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (United States)
A. B. Giles, Univ. of Tasmania (Australia)
M. Gilfanov, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (Germany)
P. Giommi, ASI Science Data Ctr. (Italy)
G. Giovannini, INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia (Italy)
M. Giroletti, INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia (Italy)
E. Gogus, Sabanci Univ. (Turkey)
A. Goldwurm, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, CNRS, Univ. Paris Diderot (France)
Observatoire de Paris, CEA-IRFU (France)
K. Goluchová, Silesian Univ. in Opava (Czech Republic)
D. Götz, CEA-IRFU (France)
C. Gouiffes, CEA-IRFU (France)
M. Grassi, Univ. degli Studi di Pavia (Italy)
P. Groot, Clemson Univ. (United States)
M. Gschwender, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
L. Gualtieri, Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
C. Guidorzi, Univ. degli Studi di Ferrara (Italy)
L. Guy, ISDC Data Ctr. for Astrophysics, Univ. de Genève (Switzerland)
D. Haas, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
P. Haensel, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Ctr. (Poland)
M. Hailey, Mullard Space Science Lab. (United Kingdom)
F. Hansen, DTU Space (Denmark)
D. H. Hartmann, Clemson Univ. (United States)
C. A. Haswell, The Open Univ. (United Kingdom)
K. Hebeler, Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany)
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (Germany)
A. Heger, Monash Univ. (Australia)
W. Hermsen, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
J. Homan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
A. Hornstrup, DTU Space (Denmark)
R. Hudec, Astronomical Institute of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
Czech Technical Univ. in Prague (Czech Republic)
J. Huovelin, Univ. of Helsinki (Finland)
A. Ingram, Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
J. J. M. In't Zand, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
G. Israel, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (Italy)
K. Iwasawa, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Univ. de Barcelona (Spain)
L. Izzo, Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
International Ctr. for Relativistic Astrophysics (Italy)
H. M. Jacobs, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
F. Jetter, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
T. Johannsen, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Canada)
Univ. of Waterloo (Canada)
P. Jonker, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
J. Josè, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)
P. Kaaret, Michigan state Univ. (United States)
G. Kanbach, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (Germany)
V. Karas, Astronomical Institute of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
D. Karelin, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC (Spain)
D. Kataria, Mullard Space Science Lab. (United Kingdom)
L. Keek, Michigan State Univ. (United States)
T. Kennedy, Mullard Space Science Lab. (United Kingdom)
D. Klochkov, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
W. Kluzniak, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Ctr. (Poland)
K. Kokkotas, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
S. Korpela, Univ. of Helsinki (Finland)
C. Kouveliotou, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. (United States)
I. Kreykenbohm, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
L. M. Kuiper, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
I. Kuvvetli, DTU Space (Denmark)
C. Labanti, INAF - IASF Bologna (Italy)
D. Lai, Cornell Univ. (United States)
F. K. Lamb, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)
P. P. Laubert, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (Netherlands)
F. Lebrun, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, CNRS, Univ. Paris Diderot (France)
Observatoire de Paris, CEA-IRFU (France)
D. Lin, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France)
D. Linder, Mullard Space Science Lab. (United Kingdom)
G. Lodato, Univ. degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
F. Longo, Univ. degli Studi di Trieste (Italy)
N. Lund, DTU Space (Denmark)
T. J. Maccarone, Texas Tech Univ. (United States)
D. Macera, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
S. Maestre, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France)
S. Mahmoodifar, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (United States)
D. Maier, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
P. Malcovati, Univ. degli Studi di Pavia (Italy)
I. Mandel, Univ. of Birmingham (United Kingdom)
V. Mangano, The Pennsylvania State Univ. (United States)
A. Manousakis, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Ctr. (Poland)
M. Marisaldi, INAF - IASF Bologna (Italy)
A. Markowitz, Univ. of California, San Diego (United States)
A. Martindale, Univ. of Leicester (United Kingdom)
G. Matt, Univ. degli Studi di Roma Tre (Italy)
I. M. McHardy, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)
A. Melatos, The Univ. of Melbourne (Australia)
M. Mendez, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands)
S. Mereghetti, INAF - IASF Milano (Italy)
M. Michalska, Space Research Ctr. (Poland)
S. Migliari, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Univ. de Barcelona (Spain)
R. Mignani, INAF-IASF Milano (Italy)
Univ. of Zielona Gòra (Poland)
M. C. Miller, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (United States)
J. M. Miller, Michigan State Univ. (United States)
T. Mineo, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo (Italy)
G. Miniutti, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, CSIC (Spain)
S. Morsink, Univ. of Alberta (Canada)
C. Motch, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg (France)
S. Motta, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
M. Mouchet, Univ. Paris Diderot 5 (France)
G. Mouret, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France)
J. Mulačová, DTU Space (Denmark)
F. Muleri, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
INFN (Italy)
T. Muñoz-Darias, Oxford Univ. (United Kingdom)
I. Negueruela, Univ. de Alicante (Spain)
J. Neilsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
A. J. Norton, The Open Univ. (United Kingdom)
M. Nowak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
P. O'Brien, Univ. of Leicester (United Kingdom)
P. E. H. Olsen, DTU Space (Denmark)
M. Orienti, INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia (Italy)
M. Orio, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (France)
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (United States)
M. Orlandini, INAF - IASF Bologna (Italy)
P. Orleański, Space Research Ctr. (Poland)
J. P. Osborne, Univ. of Leicester (United Kingdom)
R. Osten, Space Telescope Science Institute (United States)
F. Ozel, The Univ. of Arizona (United States)
L. Pacciani, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
INFN (Italy)
M. Paolillo, Seconda Univ. degli Studi di Napoli (Italy)
A. Papitto, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC (Spain)
J. M. Paredes, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Univ. de Barcelona (Spain)
A. Patruno, Leiden Observatory (Netherlands)
ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (Netherlands)
B. Paul, Raman Research Institute (India)
E. Perinati, Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen (Germany)
A. Pellizzoni, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (Italy)
A. V. Penacchioni, Univ. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
International Ctr. for Relativistic Astrophysics (Italy)
M. A. Perez, Univ. de Salamanca (Spain)
V. Petracek, Czech Technical Univ. in Prague (Czech Republic)
C. Pittori, ASI Science Data Ctr. (Italy)
J. Pons, Univ. de Alicante (Spain)
J. Portell, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC (Spain)
A. Possenti, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (Italy)
J. Poutanen, Tuorla Observatory, Univ. of Turku (Finland)
M. Prakash, Ohio Univ. (United States)
P. Le Provost, CEA-IRFU (France)
D. Psaltis, The Univ. of Arizona (United States)
D. Rambaud, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France)
P. Ramon, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (France)
G. Ramsay, Armagh Observatory (United Kingdom)
M. Rapisarda, INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy)
INFN (Italy)
A. Rachevski, INFN (Italy)
I. Rashevskaya, INFN (Italy)
P. S. Ray, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (United States)
N. Rea, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, CSIC (Spain)
S. Reddy, Univ. of Washington (United States)
P. Reig, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece)
Univ. of Crete (Greece)
M. Reina Aranda, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, CSIC (Spain)
R. Remillard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
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