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Papers and Presentations
The documents generally refer to earlier designs but are relevant to the mission's goals.
Major Documents
Mission and Science
- GRB Probes of the High-z Universe with EXIST
Jonathan Grindlay and the EXIST Team
Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; to appear in Proc. Huntsville Gamma-ray Burst Symposium, AIPC (C. Meegan, N. Gehrels and C. Kouveliotou, eds.), in press
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
arXiv:0904.2210
- AGN Variability Surveys: DASCH from BATSS to EXIST
Grindlay, J. E.
ASPC, 373, 711 (2007)
(The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei, Xi'an, China, 16-21 Oct., 2006)
- Jets, Blazars and the EBL in the GLAST-EXIST Era
Grindlay, Jonathan E.
AIPC, 921, 211 (2007)
(First GLAST Symposium, Stanford, CA, 2007)
- Post-SWIFT Gamma-Ray Burst Science and Capabilities Needed to EXIST
J.E. Grindlay and the EXIST Team,
AIP Conf. Proc., 836, 631 (2006) or [ps]
(Gamma-Ray Bursts in the SWIFT Era, Washington, DC, Nov/Dec 2005)
- EXIST: All-Sky Hard X-Ray Imaging and Spectral-Temporal Survey for Black Holes
J.E. Grindlay,
New Astronomy Reviews, 49, 436 (2005) or [ps]
(Wide Field Surveys meeting, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, May 2004)
- Tracing cosmic star formation with EXIST
D.H. Hartmann et al.,
New Astronomy Rev., 48, 237 (2004) or [ps]
(Astro. with Radioactivities IV and Filling the Sensitivity Gap in MeV Astro., Germany, May 2003)
- EXIST: Mission Design Concept and Technology Program
J.E. Grindlay, W.W. Craig, N.A. Gehrels, F.A. Harrison, J. Hong,
Proc. SPIE, 4851, 331 (2003) or [ps]
(X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Telescopes and Instruments for Astronomy, Aug 2002)
- Proposed Next Generation GRB Mission: EXIST
J. Grindlay, N. Gehrels, F. Harrison, R. Blandford, G. Fishman, C. Kouveliotou, D.H. Hartmann, S. Woosley, W. Craig, J. Hong,
AIP Conf. Proc., 662, 477 (2003) or [ps]
(Gamma-Ray Burst and Afterglow Astronomy 2001, Woods Hole, Nov 2001)
- White Paper for EXIST (Draft Jan 2002)
[pdf] or [ps]
- EXIST: The Ultimate Spatial/Temporal Hard X-Ray Survey
J.E. Grindlay, et al.,
AIP Conf. Proc., 587, 899 (2001)
(Gamma 2001: Gamma-Ray Astrophysics, Baltimore, April 2001)
Instrumentation
- BAT Slew Survey (BATSS): Slew data imaging for Swift-BAT
Copete et al. 2009
PDF
- Optimizing the design of the EXIST mission and its potential for gamma ray burst discoveries
Garson, Alfred Bates, III
Thesis, Washington University (2007)
- Monte-Carlo simulations of the expected imaging performance of EXIST high-energy telescope
Vadawale, S. V., et al.
SPIE, 5900, 338 (2005)
- Using the Active Collimator and Shield Assembly of an EXIST-Type Mission as a Gamma-Ray Burst Spectrometer
A. Garson III, H. Krawczynski, J. Grindlay, G.J. Fishman, C.A. Wilson
A&A 456, 379-387 (2006)
- CZT in Space Based Hard-X-Ray Astronomy: Background Predictions for EXIST
A. Garson III, H. Krawczynski, G. Weidenspointner, E.I. Novikova, J. Grindlay, J. Hong, I.V. Jung
Proc. SPIE, 6319, 63190D (2006)
- Detector and telescope development for ProtoEXIST and fine beam measurements of spectral response of CZT detectors
J. Hong, A. Copete, J.E. Grindlay, S.V. Vadawale, W.W. Craig, F. Harrison, W.R. Cook, N. Gehrels,
Proc. SPIE, 5898, 173 (2005)
- Optimizing wide-field coded aperture imaging: radial mask holes and scanning
J.E. Grindlay and J. Hong,
Proc. SPIE, 5168, 402 (2004) or [ps]
(Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy, 2003)
- Postlaunch Analysis of Swift's Gamma-Ray Burst Detection Sensitivity
Band, David L.
ApJ, 644, 378 (2006)
- Downscattering due to Wind Outflows in Compact X-Ray Sources: Theory and Interpretation
L. Titarchuk, C. Shrader
ApJ 623, 362 (2005)
- Is M82 X-1 Really An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole? X-Ray Spectral and Timing Evidence
R. Fiorito, L. Titarchuk
ApJ 614, L113 (2004)
Presentations
- EXIST Talk - APS (Denver) - May 2009
EXIST: Surveying Black Holes from the Early Universe to Local Galaxies - Grindlay, Josh
Smashing the Cosmic Distance Record with a Gamma-Ray Burst at z = 8.2 - Berger, Edo
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