X-ray follow-up of extragalactic transients
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2019-03-14 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
Most violent and energetic processes in our universe, including mergers of compact objects, explosions of massive stars and extreme accretion events, produce copious amounts of X-rays. X-ray follow-up is an efficient tool for identifying transients because (1) X-rays can quickly localize transients with large error circles, and (2) X-rays reveal the nature of transients that may not have unique signatures at other wavelengths. In this white paper, we identify key science questions about several extragalactic multi-messenger and multi-wavelength transients, and demonstrate how X-ray follow-up helps answer these questions
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@article{arxiv.1903.05287,
title = {X-ray follow-up of extragalactic transients},
author = {Erin Kara and Raffaella Margutti and Azadeh Keivani and Wen-fai Fong and Brad Cenko and Scott Noble and Richard Mushotzky and John Ruan and Geoffrey Ryan and Eric Burns and Daryl Haggard and Regina Caputo and Derek Fox and David Burrows},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05287},
year = {2019}
}
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White paper submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey