The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2026-01-07 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS), a next-generation X-ray mission selected by NASA's Astrophysics Probe Program for Phase A study. AXIS will advance the legacy of high-angular-resolution X-ray astronomy with ~1.5'' imaging over a wide 24' field of view and an order of magnitude greater collecting area than Chandra in the 0.3-12 keV band. Combining sharp imaging, high throughput, and rapid response capabilities, AXIS will open new windows on virtually every aspect of modern astrophysics, exploring the birth and growth of supermassive black holes, the feedback processes that shape galaxies, the life cycles of stars and exoplanet environments, and the nature of compact stellar remnants, supernova remnants, and explosive transients. This book compiles 138 community-contributed science cases developed by five Science Working Groups focused on AGN and supermassive black holes, galaxy evolution and feedback, compact objects and supernova remnants, stellar physics and exoplanets, and time-domain and multi-messenger astrophysics. Together, these studies establish the scientific foundation for next-generation X-ray exploration in the 2030s and highlight strong synergies with facilities of the 2030s, such as JWST, Roman, Rubin/LSST, SKA, ALMA, ngVLA, and next-generation gravitational-wave and neutrino networks.
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@article{arxiv.2511.00253,
title = {The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book},
author = {Michael Koss and Nafisa Aftab and Steven W. Allen and Roberta Amato and Hongjun An and Igor Andreoni and Timo Anguita and Riccardo Arcodia and Thomas Ayres and Matteo Bachetti and Maria Cristina Baglio and Arash Bahramian and Marco Balboni and Ranieri D. Baldi and Solen Balman and Aya Bamba and Eduardo Banados and Tong Bao and Iacopo Bartalucci and Antara Basu-Zych and Rebeca Batalha and Lorenzo Battistini and Franz Erik Bauer and Andy Beardmore and Werner Becker and Ehud Behar and Andrea Belfiore and Paz Beniamini and Elena Bertola and Vinicius Bessa and Henry Best and Stefano Bianchi and N. Biava and Breanna A. Binder and Elizabeth L. Blanton and Arash Bodaghee and Tamara Bogdanovic and David Bogensberger and A. Bonafede and Matteo Bonetti and Pol Bordas and Alice Borghese and Andrea Botteon and Stella Boula and Enrico Bozzo and Marica Branchesi and William Nielsen Brandt and Joel Bregman and Fabrizio Brighenti and Ettore Bronzini and Giulia Brunelli and Marcella Brusa and Esra Bulbul and Kevin Burdge and Alessandro Caccianiga and Michael Calzadilla and Sergio Campana and Milvia Capalbi and Fiamma Capitanio and Nico Cappelluti and Jonathan Carney and Sabrina Casanova and Daniel Castro and S. Bradley Cenko and Joheen Chakraborty and Priyanka Chakraborty and George Chartas and Arka Chatterjee and Prakriti Pal Choudhury and Raven Cilley and Francesca Civano and Andrea Comastri and Thomas Connor and Michael F. Corcoran and Lia Corrales and Francesco Coti Zelati and Weiguang Cui and Filippo D'Ammando and Kristen Dage and Tansu Daylan and Sabrina De Grandi and Alessandra De Rosa and Roberto Decarli and Anne Decourchelle and Nathalie Degenaar and Antonino Del Popolo and Alessandro Di Marco and Tiziana Di Salvo and Simone Dichiara and Stephen DiKerby and Steven Dillmann and Neil Doerksen and Paul Draghis and Jeremy J. Drake and Lorenzo Ducci and Renato Dupke and Joseph Durbak and Girish M. Duvvuri and Hannah Dykaar and Dominique Eckert and Martin Elvis and Catherine Espaillat and Paolo Esposito and Felix Furst and Giuseppina Fabbiano and Joshua Fagin and Abraham Falcone and Elena Fedorova and Adina Feinstein and Jorge Fernandez Fernandez and Gilles Ferrand and Anthony M. Flores and N. Foo and Nicholas Foo and Adi Foord and Alessia Franchini and Federico Fraschetti and Brenda L. Frye and James D. Lowenthal and Chris Fryer and Shin-ichiro Fujimoto and Seth Gagnon and Luigi Gallo and Carlos Garcia Diaz and Massimo Gaspari and Fabio Gastaldello and Joseph D. Gelfand and Suvi Gezari and Simona Ghizzardi and Simona Giacintucci and A. Gill and Roberto Gilli and Myriam Gitti and Margherita Giustini and Andrea Gnarini and Paola Grandi and Arran Gross and Liyi Gu and Sean Gunderson and Hans Moritz Gunther and Daryl Haggard and Kenji Hamaguchi and Jeremy Hare and Kevin C. Harrington and Craig Heinke and Sebastian Heinz and Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo and Wynn C. G. Ho and Edmund Hodges-Kluck and Jeroen Homan and R. Huang and Luca Ighina and Alessandro Ignesti and Matteo Imbrogno and Christopher Irwin and Jimmy Irwin and Nazma Islam and Gian Luca Israel and Wynn Jacobson-Galan and Chetana Jain and Arghajit Jana and Amruta Jaodand and Fred Jennings and Jiachen Jiang and Eric F. Jimenez-Andrade and Y. Jimenez-Teja and S. Johnson and Peter Jonker and Patrick S. Kamieneski and Elias Kammoun and Erin Kara and Oleg Kargaltsev and George W. King and Demet Kirmizibayrak and Noel Klingler and Albert K. H. Kong and Marina Kounkel and Manish Kumar and Alexander Kutyrev and Rebecca Kyer and Fabio La Monaca and Erini Lambrides and Giorgio Lanzuisi and Wonki Lee and Bret Lehmer and Elisa Lentini and Marika Lepore and Jiangtao Li and Carey M. Lisse and Daizhong Liu and Tingting Liu and Monica Isla Llave and Nicola Locatelli and Laura A. Lopez and Sebastian Lopez and Lorenzo Lovisari and Elisabeta Lusso and Brydyn Mac Intyre and Austin MacMaster and Roberto Maiolino and Jaya Maithil and Chandreyee Maitra and Walid Majid and Daniele Bjorn Malesani and Julie Malewicz and Labani Mallick and Shifra Mandel and Antonios Manousakis and Adam Mantz and Stefano Marchesi and Maxim Markevitch and Tatsuya Matsumoto and James Matthews and Martin G. F. Mayer and Giovanni Mazzolari and Chiara Mazzucchelli and Michael McDonald and Eileen T. Meyer and Riccardo Middei and Giulia Migliori and Martin Millon and Giovanni Miniutti and Mohammad Mirakhor and Silvano Molendi and Erik B. Monson and Alberto Moretti and Christopher Morgan and Kaya Mori and R. Glenn Morris and Sachindra Naik and Preethi Nair and Emanuele Nardini and Yael Naze and Michela Negro and Favio Neira and Chi Yung Ng and Mason Ng and Thong T. Q. Nguyen and Scott C. Noble and Brendan O'Connor and Ewan O'Sullivan and Matthew O'Dowd and Kwangmin Oh and Laura Olivera-Nieto and Marina Orio and Lidia M. Oskinova and Rachel Osten and Fabio Pacucci and Dany Page and Eric Paic and Belen Alcalde Pampliega and Abby Pan and Francesca Panessa and Manali Parvatikar and Massimo Pascale and Dheeraj Pasham and Biswajit Paul and Aaron B. Pearlman and Alessandro Peca and Eric S. Perlman and Maria Petropoulou and Pierre-Olivier Petrucci and Ryan W. Pfeifle and Enrico Piconcelli and Annalisa Pillepich and Ciro Pinto and Tsvi Piran and Andrealuna Pizzetti and Gabriele Ponti and Bettina Posselt and Pragati Pradhan and David A. Principe and Marine Prunier and Andrew Ptak and Giovanna Pugliese and Jonathan Quirola-Vasquez and Kamlesh Rajpurohit and Scott W. Randall and Chris Reynolds and Mark T. Reynolds and Lauren Rhodes and Angelo Ricarte and Claudio Ricci and Roberto Ricci and Fabio Rigamonti and Ketan Rikame and Guido Risaliti and Giacomo Riva and Liliana Rivera Sandoval and Guillermo Andres Rodriguez-Castillo and Daniele Rogantini and Patrizia Romano and Piero Rosati and Mariachiara Rossetti and Barry Rothberg and Alicia Rouco Escorial and Helen Russell and Geoffrey Ryan and Andrea Sacchi and Samar Safi-Harb and Takanori Sakamoto and Chiara Salvaggio and Ruben Salvaterra and Francesco Salvestrini and Isabel Sander and Arnab Sarkar and Manami Sasaki and Gerrit Schellenberger and Eric Schlegel and Jeremy D. Schnittman and Emma Schwartzman and Roberto Serafinelli and Alberto Sesana and Paola Severgnini and Rahul Sharma and Yue Shen and Timothy Shimwell and Avi Shporer and Matilde Signorini and Jasbir Singh and Julia Sisk-Reynes and Dominique Sluse and Taweewat Somboonpanyakul and Roberto Soria and Navin Sridhar and Keivan G. Stassun and Robert Stein and Nathan Steinle and Daniel Stern and Ceaser Stringfield and Haley Stueber and Yuanyuan Su and Janette Suherli and Nial Tanvir and Antonella Tarana and Yukikatsu Terada and Ira Thorpe and Andrea Tiengo and Francesco Tombesi and Nuria Torres-Alba and Eleonora Torresi and Alessia Tortosa and Lee Townsend and Paolo Tozzi and Cole Treyturik and Anna Trindade Falcao and Eleonora Troja and Naomi Tsuji and Aysegul Tumer and Francesco Ubertosi and Hendrik van Eerten and Reinout van Weeren and Georgios Vasilopoulos and Susanna D. Vergani and Georgios Vernardos and Benjamin Vigneron and Amit Vishwas and Fabio Vito and Zorawar Wadiasingh and Stephen Walker and Dominic J. Walton and F. Wang and Q. Daniel Wang and Kimberly Weaver and Peter J. Wheatley and Rudy Wijnands and Dan Wilkins and Brian J. Williams and Scott Wolk and Anna Wolter and Ka-Wah Wong and Jooyun Woo and Tyrone Woods and Kinwah Wu and Yerong Xu and Muskan Yadav and Hui Yang and J. Yang and Yuhan Yao and Michael Yeung and George Younes and Andrew Young and Mihoko Yukita and Min S. Yun and Silvia Zane and Luca Zappacosta and Stephen Zepf and Bing Zhang and Congyao Zhang and Shuo Zhang and Xiying Zhang and Yuexin Zhang and Xiurui Zhao and Xueying Zheng and Dazhi Zhou and Mingyang Zhuang and Fan Zou and John ZuHone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.00253},
year = {2026}
}
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592 pages, 226 figures, version 2