The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on-board the THESEUS mission

P. O'Brien; E. Bozzo; R. Willingale; I. Hutchinson; J. Osborne; L. Amati; D. Götz

The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on-board the THESEUS mission

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-02-07 v1

Authors: P. O'Brien , E. Bozzo , R. Willingale , I. Hutchinson , J. Osborne , L. Amati , D. Götz

Abstract

We summarize in this contribution the capabilities, design status, and the en- abling technologies of the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) planned to be on-board the THESEUS mission. We describe its central role in making THESEUS a powerful machine to probe the physical conditions of the early Universe (close to the reionization era) and to explore the time-domain Universe.

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soft x-ray imager theseus mission early universe reionization era time-domain astronomy

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@article{arxiv.1802.01675,
  title  = {The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on-board the THESEUS mission},
  author = {P. O'Brien and E. Bozzo and R. Willingale and I. Hutchinson and J. Osborne and L. Amati and D. Götz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.01675},
  year   = {2018}
}

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To be published in the Proceedings of the THESEUS Workshop 2017 (http://www.isdc.unige.ch/theseus/workshop2017.html), Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society (Mem.SAIt), Editors L. Amati, E. Bozzo, M. Della Valle, D. Gotz, P. O'Brien. Details on the THESEUS mission concept can be found in the white paper Amati et al. 2017 (arXiv:171004638) and Stratta et al. 2017 (arXiv:1712.08153)

The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on-board the THESEUS mission

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