Status of the follow-up x-ray telescope onboard the Einstein Probe satellite

Yong Chen; WeiWei Cui; DaWei Han; Juan Wang; YanJi Yang; YuSa Wang; Wei Li; Jia Ma; YuPeng Xu; FangJun Lu; HouLei Chen; QingJun Tang; Weimin Yuan; Peter Friedrich; Norbert Meidinger; Isabell Keil; Vadim Burwitz; Josef Eder; Katinka Hartmann; Kirpal Nandra; Arnoud Keereman; Andrea Santovincenzo; Dervis Vernani; Giovanni Bianucci; Giuseppe Valsecchi; Bo Wang; LangPing Wang; DianLong Wang; Duo Li; LiZhi Sheng; PengFei Qiang; RongRong Shi; XiangYu Chao; Zeyu Song; Ziliang Zhang; Jia Huo; Hao Wang; Min Cong; XiongTao Yang; Dongjie Hou; XiaoFan Zhao; ZiJian Zhao; TianXiang Chen; MaoShun Li; Tong Zhang; LaiDan Luo; JingJing Xu; Gang Li; Qian Zhang; XiYan Bi; YuXuan Zhu; Nian Yu; Can Chen; ZhongHua Lv; Bing Lu; JiaWei Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2562311

13 December 2020 Status of the follow-up x-ray telescope onboard the Einstein Probe satellite

Yong Chen, WeiWei Cui, DaWei Han, Juan Wang, YanJi Yang, YuSa Wang, Wei Li, Jia Ma, YuPeng Xu, FangJun Lu, HouLei Chen, QingJun Tang, Weimin Yuan, Peter Friedrich, Norbert Meidinger, Isabell Keil, Vadim Burwitz, Josef Eder, Katinka Hartmann, Kirpal Nandra, Arnoud Keereman, Andrea Santovincenzo, Dervis Vernani, Giovanni Bianucci, Giuseppe Valsecchi, Bo Wang, LangPing Wang, DianLong Wang, Duo Li, LiZhi Sheng, PengFei Qiang, RongRong Shi, XiangYu Chao, Zeyu Song, Ziliang Zhang, Jia Huo, Hao Wang, Min Cong, XiongTao Yang, Dongjie Hou, XiaoFan Zhao, ZiJian Zhao, TianXiang Chen, MaoShun Li, Tong Zhang, LaiDan Luo, JingJing Xu, Gang Li, Qian Zhang, XiYan Bi, YuXuan Zhu, Nian Yu, Can Chen, ZhongHua Lv, Bing Lu, JiaWei Zhang

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Proceedings Volume 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 114445B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562311
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The Einstein Probe (EP) is an X-ray astronomical mission mainly devoting to time-domain astronomy. There are two main scientific payloads onboard EP, the Wide Field X-ray Telescope (WXT) based on the lobster eye optics and the Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT). FXT contains two Wolter-1 mirrors with a pnCCD detector on each focus. The total effective area is about 600 cm2 and the energy range is 0.3-10 keV. The pnCCD detector cooled by a pulse tube cooler enables high-resolution spectroscopy and imaging combined with excellent time resolution. It will also have several working modes with time resolution ranging from tens of microseconds to 50 milliseconds. Currently, the FXT is in its qualification model phase. The mirror assemblies (STM and TCM) as well as the pnCCD EM module have been manufactured and tested.

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Yong Chen, WeiWei Cui, DaWei Han, Juan Wang, YanJi Yang, YuSa Wang, Wei Li, Jia Ma, YuPeng Xu, FangJun Lu, HouLei Chen, QingJun Tang, Weimin Yuan, Peter Friedrich, Norbert Meidinger, Isabell Keil, Vadim Burwitz, Josef Eder, Katinka Hartmann, Kirpal Nandra, Arnoud Keereman, Andrea Santovincenzo, Dervis Vernani, Giovanni Bianucci, Giuseppe Valsecchi, Bo Wang, LangPing Wang, DianLong Wang, Duo Li, LiZhi Sheng, PengFei Qiang, RongRong Shi, XiangYu Chao, Zeyu Song, Ziliang Zhang, Jia Huo, Hao Wang, Min Cong, XiongTao Yang, Dongjie Hou, XiaoFan Zhao, ZiJian Zhao, TianXiang Chen, MaoShun Li, Tong Zhang, LaiDan Luo, JingJing Xu, Gang Li, Qian Zhang, XiYan Bi, YuXuan Zhu, Nian Yu, Can Chen, ZhongHua Lv, Bing Lu, and JiaWei Zhang "Status of the follow-up x-ray telescope onboard the Einstein Probe satellite", Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114445B (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562311

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