The Microchannel X-ray Telescope for the Gamma-Ray Burst Mission SVOM
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE(2014)
Abstract
We present the Microchannel X-ray Telescope, a new light and compact focussing telescope that will be flying on the Sino-French SVOM mission dedicated to Gamma-Ray Burst science. The MXT design is based on the coupling of square pore micro-channel plates with a low noise pnCCD. MXT will provide an effective area of about 50 cmsq, and its point spread function is expected to be better than 3.7 arc min (FWHM) on axis. The estimated sensitivity is adequate to detect all the afterglows of the SVOM GRBs, and to localize them to better then 60 arc sec after five minutes of observation.
MoreTranslated text
Key words
Gamma-Ray Bursts,X-ray Telescopes,Micro-channel plates,pnCCD
AI Read Science
Must-Reading Tree
Example
Generate MRT to find the research sequence of this paper
Chat Paper
Summary is being generated by the instructions you defined