Proposed (to) EXIST: Hard X-ray Imaging All Sky Survey/Monitor

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dc.creatorGrindlay, J. E.
dc.creatorPrince, T. A.
dc.creatorHarrison, F.
dc.creatorGehrels, N.
dc.creatorHailey, C. J.
dc.creatorRamsey, B.
dc.creatorWeisskopf, M. C.
dc.creatorSkinner, G. K.
dc.creatorUbertini, P.
dc.date1998-01-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:25:42Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:25:42Z
dc.descriptionThe hard x-ray (10-600 keV) sky is inherently time variable and yet has neither been surveyed nor monitored with a sensitive imaging telescope. The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) is a mission concept, proposed for MIDEX, which would conduct the first imaging all-sky hard x-ray survey as well as provide a sensitive all sky monitor. With $\sim 60%$ sky coverage each orbit, and full sky coverage each 50 days, hard x-ray studies of gamma-ray bursts, AGN, galactic transients, x-ray binaries and accretion-powered pulsars can be conducted over a wide range of timescales. We summarize the scientific objectives of EXIST for both the survey and monitoring objectives. We describe the mission concept and the instrumentation approach, which would incorporate a large area array of Cd-Zn-Te (CZT) detectors, as well as some of our ongoing development of CZT array detectors.
dc.description6 pages latex (needs RIKEN2A.sty, WORKSHOP.sty and psbox.sty) plus 3 postscript figures. Invited talk presented at Riken Workshop on All Sky Monitors; to be published in "All Sky X-ray Observations in the Next Decade" (eds. M. Matsuoka and N. Kawai), 1998
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9712359
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9712359
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11980
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleProposed (to) EXIST: Hard X-ray Imaging All Sky Survey/Monitor
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