Science with the IXO High Time Resolution Spectrometer

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21345405b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #454.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.351

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The High Time Resolution Spectrometer (HTRS) is proposed as a focal plane instrument of the International X-ray Observatory, to match the top level mission requirement to observe a one Crab X-ray source with less than 10% deadtime. The HTRS, as an array of low capacitance silicon drift detectors, is indeed designed to cope with extremely high count rates (up to 2 Mcts/s, about 6 Crab) while keeping the electronics deadtime and pile-up to about 2% and still providing micro-second time resolution and good (<150 eV) energy resolution. In this paper, we review the potential of the HTRS observations of bright galactic X-ray sources to probe strong gravity and matter at supra-nuclear densities.

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