Proceedings of the "Wide Field X-ray Telescope" workshop

TL;DR

This paper compiles the proceedings of a 2009 conference discussing the scientific potential of a proposed wide field X-ray telescope with a large field of view and effective area, emphasizing its discovery capabilities.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive collection of contributions highlighting the scientific opportunities of the wide field X-ray telescope concept.

Findings

Potential for wide-area X-ray surveys

Enhanced sensitivity and resolution across the field

Discovery space for new astrophysical phenomena

Abstract

We list here the contents of the Proceedings of the "Wide Field X-ray Telescope" conference held in Bologna, Italy on 25-26 Nov 2009. The conference highlighted the scientific potential and discovery space provided by an X-ray mission concept characterized by a wide field-of-view (1 sq.deg.), large effective area (1 sq.mt.) and approximately constant PSF (~5 arcsec HEW) across the whole FOV. The index is in html form with clickable links to the individual contributions.