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Welcome to the ProtoEXIST web site at CfA
ProtoEXIST is a balloon-borne wide-field hard X-ray
survey project, which will be a prototype experiment for a next
generation hard X-ray survey mission - the Energetic X-ray
Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST). EXIST
is selected as a candidate for Black Hole Finder Probe
(BHFP) under the NASA Beyond Einstein program. EXIST
will perform sensitive hard X-ray survey over the entire sky and it will
serve as a Next Generation GRB Observatory, with sensitivity,
resolution and bandwidth that will greatly extend the present
capabilities of the Swift
mission now operating.
ProtoEXIST will be a pathfinder for the EXIST
mission in both technology and science. ProtoEXIST is
currently being developed at CfA along with several
collaborators at Caltech,
NASA GSFC, and
LLNL/SLAC.
This website summarizes some aspects of the
development of ProtoEXIST as well as
provides links to EXIST and related missions.
Please direct any questions or comments on the website to jhong@cfa.harvard.edu.
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