Status of the follow-up x-ray telescope onboard the Einstein Probe satellite
Yong Chen, Wei Cui, Dawei Han, Juan Wang, Yanji Yang, Yusa Wang, Wei Li, Jia Ma, Y. P. Xu, F. J. Lu, Houlei Chen, Qingjun Tang, Weimin Yuan, Péter Friedrich, Norbert Meidinger, Isabell Keil, V. Burwitz, Josef Eder, Katinka Hartmann, K. Nandra, Arnoud Keereman, A. 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, Mao-Shun 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
Abstract
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.