Papers and Presentations

Documents dated before 2005 refer to the 2001 mission design, but the key parameters of the current design are very similar (and generally better with the addition of the LET).

Major Documents

  1. [pdf] Mission Study Report (Dec 2002)

  2. [pdf files] Beyond Einstein SEU Roadmap (Jan 2003)
    [ps] [pdf] Beyond Einstein 2-page Factsheet

EXIST Mission and Science

  • [ps] [pdf] Post-SWIFT Gamma-Ray Burst Science and Capabilities Needed to EXIST
    J.E. Grindlay and the EXIST Team,
    AIP Conf. Proc., 836, 631 (2006)
    (Gamma-Ray Bursts in the SWIFT Era, Washington, DC, Nov/Dec 2005)
  • [ps] [pdf] EXIST: All-Sky Hard X-Ray Imaging and Spectral-Temporal Survey for Black Holes
    J.E. Grindlay,
    New Astronomy Reviews, 49, 436 (2005)
    (Wide Field Surveys meeting, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, May 2004)
  • [ps] [pdf] Hard X-ray Timing with EXIST
    J.E. Grindlay,
    AIP Conf. Proc., 714, 413 (2004)
    (X-Ray Timing 2003 Conference, Nov 2003)
  • [ps] [pdf] Tracing cosmic star formation with EXIST
    D.H. Hartmann et al.,
    New Astronomy Rev., 48, 237 (2004)
    (Astro. with Radioactivities IV and Filling the Sensitivity Gap in MeV Astro., Germany, May 2003)
  • [ps] [pdf] Comparison of the Gamma-Ray Burst Sensitivity of Different Detectors
    D.L. Band,
    ApJ 588, 945 (May 10, 2003)
  • [ps] [pdf] 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)
    (X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Telescopes and Instruments for Astronomy, Aug 2002)
  • [ps] [pdf] 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)
    (Gamma-Ray Burst and Afterglow Astronomy 2001, Woods Hole, Nov 2001)
  • [ps] [pdf] White Paper for EXIST (Draft Jan 2002)
  • [pdf] 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)

EXIST Instrumentation

  • [pdf] 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)
  • astro-ph 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)
  • astro-ph CZT imaging detectors for ProtoEXIST
    J. Hong, J.E. Grindlay, et al.,
    Proc. SPIE, 6319, 23 (2006)
  • astro-ph 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)
  • [ps] [pdf] Optimizing wide-field coded aperture imaging: radial mask holes and scanning
    J.E. Grindlay and J. Hong,
    Proc. SPIE, 5168, 402 (2004)
    (Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy, 2003)

Related Papers

  • [pdf] Burst Detector Sensitivity: Past, Present & Future
    D.L. Band
    AIP Conf. Proc. 836, 704 (2006)
    (Gamma-Ray Bursts in the SWIFT Era, Maryland, May 2006)
  • [pdf] Downscattering due to Wind Outflows in Compact X-Ray Sources: Theory and Interpretation
    L. Titarchuk, C. Shrader
    ApJ 623, 362 (2005)
  • [pdf] Is M82 X-1 Really An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole? X-Ray Spectral and Timing Evidence
    R. Fiorito, L. Titarchuk
    ApJ 614, L113 (2004)