Status of the follow-up x-ray telescope onboard the Einstein Probe satellite

• Main Authors: Chen, Yong, Cui, WeiWei, Han, DaWei, Wang, Juan, Yang, YanJi, Wang, YuSa, Li, Wei, Ma, Jia, Xu, YuPeng, Lu, FangJun, Chen, HouLei, Tang, QingJun, Yuan, Weimin, Friedrich, Peter, Meidinger, Norbert, Keil, Isabell, Burwitz, Vadim, Eder, Josef, Hartmann, Katinka, Nandra, Kirpal, Keereman, Arnoud, Santovincenzo, Andrea, Vernani, Dervis, Bianucci, Giovanni, Valsecchi, Giuseppe, Wang, Bo, Wang, LangPing, Wang, DianLong, Li, Duo, Sheng, LiZhi, Qiang, PengFei, Shi, RongRong, Chao, XiangYu, Song, Zeyu, Zhang, Ziliang, Huo, Jia, Wang, Hao, Cong, Min, Yang, XiongTao, Hou, Dongjie, Zhao, XiaoFan, Zhao, ZiJian, Chen, TianXiang, Li, MaoShun, Zhang, Tong, Luo, LaiDan, Xu, JingJing, Li, Gang, Zhang, Qian, Bi, XiYan, Zhu, YuXuan, Yu, Nian, Chen, Can, Lv, ZhongHua, Lu, Bing, Zhang, JiaWei
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: SPIE 13.12.2020
• ISBN: 9781510636750; 1510636757
• ISSN: 0277-786X
• DOI: 10.1117/12.2562311

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.