2008/07/01 by S. Mereghetti, A. De Luca, M. Fiorini +28
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Field of view #Gamma-ray burst #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Optics #Physics #Redshift #Satellite #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Telescope #X-ray telescope #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1117/12.788809
published in Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE 7011, 70111T (SPIE) · 12 pages, 7 figures; Presented at ``SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2008'' - Marseille, June 23-28, 2008
openalex publication_date 2008/07/01 · arxiv created 2008/07/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The study of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a key field to expand our understanding of several astrophysical and cosmological phenomena. SVOM is a Chinese-French Mission which will permit to detect and rapidly locate GRBs, in particular those at high redshift, and to study their multiwavelength emission. The SVOM satellite, to be launched in 2013, will carry wide field instruments operating in the X-/γ-ray band and narrow field optical and soft X-ray telescopes. Here we describe a small soft X-ray telescope (XIAO) proposed as an Italian contribution to the SVOM mission. Thanks to a grazing incidence X-ray telescope with effective area of ~120 cm<sup>2</sup> and a short focal length, coupled to a very compact, low noise, fast read out CCD camera, XIAO can substantially contribute to the overall SVOM capabilities for both GRB and non-GRB science.