Science Data Products Baselined for the EXIST Mission
Ronald Remillard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
rr@space.mit.edu
Additional authors: the Telemetry and Data Processing Technical Working Group for EXIST
Detailed preparations are underway to complete the definition of the EXIST mission as an 'Einstein Probe' for black holes in the Universe using hard X-rays. The technical working group for science telemetry and data processing will capitalize on and improve upon the methods implemented by previous missions that conduct coded-mask imaging and rapid processing of positions and intensity measurements. These missions include the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, Beppo Sax, HETE, and Swift. The telemetry and data processing designs will provide science data products that include: telemetry of individual events, rapid delivery of burst alerts, provisions of X-ray light curves on several timescales, and the construction of deep sky maps on very long timescales.
