Luigi Pacciani, Paolo Soffitta, Andrea Argan, Didier Barret, Enrico Bozzo, Marco Feroci, George W. Fraser, Jan-Willem den Herder, Martin Pohl, Christian Schmid, Chris Tenzer, Andrea Vacchi, Dave Walton, Gianluigi Zampa, Silvia Zane
The Scientific objectives of the LOFT mission, e.g., the study of the Neutron Star equation of state and of the Strong Gravity, require accurate energy, time and flux calibration for the 500k channels of the SDD detectors, as well as the knowledge of the detector dead-time and of the detector response with respect to the incident angle of the photons. We report here the evaluations made to asses the calibration issues for the LAD instrument. The strategies for both ground and on-board calibrations, including astrophysical observations, show that the goals are achievable within the current technologies.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1503
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