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Einstein Probe is a small mission dedicated to time-domain high-energy astrophysics. Its primary goals are to discover high-energy transients and to monitor variable objects in the $0.5-4~$keV X-rays, at higher sensitivity by one order of…
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This white paper is a summarising report of the Forum on monitoring the transient X-ray Universe in the multi-messenger era organized by the International Space Science Institute in Beijing (ISSI-BJ) on May 6-7, 2014. Time-domain astronomy…
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We present a mission designed for the study of transient phenomena in the high energy sky, through a wide field X-ray/hard X-ray monitor, and fast (< 1 min) follow up observations with Narrow Field Instrumentation. This is based on an X-ray…
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Black hole X-ray binaries (candidates) currently identified in our galaxy are mainly transient sources, with the majority discovered through the detection of their X-ray outbursts. Among these, only four were found during faint outbursts…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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Huaqing Cheng , Qingchang Zhao , L. Tao , H. Feng , F. Coti Zelati , H. W. Pan , A. L. Wang , Y. N. Wang , M. Y. Ge , A. Rau , A. Marino , L. Zhang , W. J. Zhang , F. Carotenuto , L. Ji , C. C. Jin , D. Y. Li , B. F. Liu , Y. Liu , E. L. Qiao , N. Rea , R. Soria , S. Wang , Z. Yan , W. Yuan , B. Zhang , G. B. Zhang , S. N. Zhang , W. D. Zhang , A. Beardmore , J. S. Bright , X. L. Chen , Z. Fan , S. Y. Fu , J. P. U. Fynbo , J. W. Hu , J. J. Jin , P. G. Jonker , A. K. H. Kong , E. Kuulkers , C. K. Li , H. L. Li , Z. K. Lin , C. X. Liu , H. -Y. Liu , J. Z. Liu , X. W. Liu , Z. Lu , C. Maitra , H. Y. Mu , C. -Y. Ng , Y. L. Qiu , S. Tinyanont , Y. Wang , S. X. Wen , S. S. Weng , Jianfeng Wu , D. Xu , Y. K. Yan , Z. Yan , Y. -P. Yang , P. Zhang , S. Zhang , Q. Zhao , Z. M. Cai , Y. Chen , Y. F. Chen , C. Z. Cui , W. W. Cui , H. B. Hu , M. H. Huang , S. M. Jia , G. Jin , Z. X. Ling , H. Q. Liu , S. L. Sun , X. J. Sun , Y. F. Xu , C. Zhang , M. Zhang , Y. H. Zhang
X-ray observations play a crucial role in time-domain astronomy. The Einstein Probe (EP), a recently launched X-ray astronomical satellite, emerges as a forefront player in the field of time-domain astronomy and high-energy astrophysics.…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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The Einstein Telescope (ET), a proposed European ground-based gravitational-wave detector of third-generation, is an evolution of second-generation detectors such as Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA which could be operating in the…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2020-04-01
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We report the discovery of a peculiar X-ray transient, EP240408a, by Einstein Probe (EP) and follow-up studies made with EP, Swift, NICER, GROND, ATCA and other ground-based multi-wavelength telescopes. The new transient was first detected…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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Wenda Zhang , Weimin Yuan , Zhixing Ling , Yong Chen , Nanda Rea , Arne Rau , Zhiming Cai , Huaqing Cheng , Francesco Coti Zelati , Lixin Dai , Jingwei Hu , Shumei Jia , Chichuan Jin , Dongyue Li , Paul O'Brien , Rongfeng Shen , Xinwen Shu , Shengli Sun , Xiaojin Sun , Xiaofeng Wang , Lei Yang , Bing Zhang , Chen Zhang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Yonghe Zhang , Jie An , David Buckley , Alexis Coleiro , Bertrand Cordier , Liming Dou , Rob Eyles-Ferris , Zhou Fan , Hua Feng , Shaoyu Fu , Johan P. U. Fynbo , Lluis Galbany , Saurabh W. Jha , Shuaiqing Jiang , Albert Kong , Erik Kuulkers , Weihua Lei , Wenxiong Li , Bifang Liu , Mingjun Liu , Xing Liu , Yuan Liu , Zhu Liu , Chandreyee Maitra , Alessio Marino , Itumeleng Monageng , Kirpal Nandra , Jeremy Sanders , Roberto Soria , Lian Tao , Junfeng Wang , Song Wang , Tinggui Wang , Zhongxiang Wang , Qingwen Wu , Xuefeng Wu , Dong Xu , Yanjun Xu , Suijian Xue , Yongquan Xue , Zijian Zhang , Zipei Zhu , Hu Zou , Congying Bao , Fansheng Chen , Houlei Chen , Tianxiang Chen , Wei Chen , Yehai Chen , Yifan Chen , Chenzhou Cui , Weiwei Cui , Yanfeng Dai , Dongwei Fan , Ju Guan , Dawei Han , Dongjie Hou , Haibo Hu , Maohai Huang , Jia Huo , Zhenqing Jia , Bowen Jiang , Ge Jin , Chengkui Li , Junfei Li , Longhui Li , Maoshun Li , Wei Li , Zhengda Li , Tianying Lian , Congzhan Liu , Heyang Liu , Huaqiu Liu , Fangjun Lu , Laidan Luo , Jia Ma , Xuan Mao , Haiwu Pan , Xin Pan , Liming Song , Hui Sun , Yunyin Tan , Qingjun Tang , Yihan Tao , Hao Wang , Juan Wang , Lei Wang , Wenxin Wang , Yilong Wang , Yusa Wang , Qinyu Wu , Haitao Xu , Jingjing Xu , Xinpeng Xu , Yunfei Xu , Zhao Xu , Changbin Xue , Yulong Xue , Ailiang Yan , Haonan Yang , Xiongtao Yang , Yanji Yang , Juan Zhang , Mo Zhang , Wenjie Zhang , Zhen Zhang , Zhen Zhang , Ziliang Zhang , Donghua Zhao , Haisheng Zhao , Xiaofan Zhao , Zijian Zhao , Hongyan Zhou , Yilin Zhou , Yuxuan Zhu , Zhencai Zhu
Einstein gravitational-wave Telescope (ET) is a design study funded by the European Commission to explore the technological challenges of and scientific benefits from building a third generation gravitational wave detector. The three-year…
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics
2012-06-05
B. Sathyaprakash , M. Abernathy , F. Acernese , P. Amaro-Seoane , N. Andersson , K. Arun , F. Barone , B. Barr , M. Barsuglia , M. Beker , N. Beveridge , S. Birindelli , S. Bose , L. Bosi , S. Braccini , C. Bradaschia , T. Bulik , E. Calloni , G. Cella , E. Chassande-Mottin , S. Chelkowski , A. Chincarini , J. Clark , E. Coccia , C. Colacino , J. Colas , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , E. Cuoco , S. Danilishin , K. Danzmann , R. De. Salvo , T. Dent , R. De. Rosa , L. Di. Fiore , A. Di. Virgilio , M. Doets , V. Fafone , P. Falferi , R. Flaminio , J. Franc , F. Frasconi , A. Freise , D. Friedrich , P. Fulda , J. Gair , G. Gemme , E. Genin , A. Gennai , A. Giazotto , K. Glampedakis , C. Gräf , M. Granata , H. Grote , G. Guidi , A. Gurkovsky , G. Hammond , M. Hannam , J. Harms , D. Heinert , M. Hendry , I. Heng , E. Hennes , S. Hild , J. Hough , S. Husa , S. Huttner , G. Jones , F. Khalili , K. Kokeyama , K. Kokkotas , B. Krishnan , T. G. F. Li , M. Lorenzini , H. Lück , E. Majorana , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , M. Mantovani , I. Martin , C. Michel , Y. Minenkov , N. Morgado , S. Mosca , B. Mours , H. Müller-Ebhardt , P. Murray , R. Nawrodt , J. Nelson , R. Oshaughnessy , C. D. Ott , C. Palomba , A. Paoli , G. Parguez , A. Pasqualetti , R. Passaquieti , D. Passuello , L. Pinard , W. Plastino , R. Poggiani , P. Popolizio , M. Prato , M. Punturo , P. Puppo , D. Rabeling , I. Racz , P. Rapagnani , J. Read , T. Regimbau , H. Rehbein , S. Reid , L. Rezzolla , F. Ricci , F. Richard , A. Rocchi , S. Rowan , A. Rüdiger , L. Santamaria , B. Sassolas , R. Schnabel , C. Schwarz , P. Seidel , A. Sintes , K. Somiya , F. Speirits , K. Strain , S. Strigin , P. Sutton , S. Tarabrin , A. Thüring , J. van den Brand , M van Veggel , C. Van Den Broeck , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch , F. Vetrano , A. Vicere , S. Vyatchanin , B. Willke , G. Woan , K. Yamamoto
The Einstein Probe (EP) satellite, dedicated at time-domain high-energy astrophysics and multi-messenger astronomy, was recently launched and successfully put into operation. The wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT, 0.5-4 keV) onboard has…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-04-22
Hao-Xuan Gao , Jin-Jun Geng , Yi-Fang Liang , Hui Sun , Fan Xu , Xue-Feng Wu , Yong-Feng Huang , Zi-Gao Dai , Wei-Min Yuan
Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) represent a new class of highly luminous transients in soft X-rays ($\sim$0.3-10 keV) associated with violent astrophysical processes. They manifest as short, singular flashes of X-ray photons with durations…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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D. Eappachen , A. Balasubramanian , Vishwajeet Swain , G. C. Anupama , D. K. Sahu , V. Bhalerao , T. Ahumada , I. Andreoni , Sudhanshu Barway , J. Carney , J. Freeburn , M. M. Kasliwal , Tanishk Mohan , A. C. Rodriguez , G. Waratkar
STE-QUEST is a fundamental science mission which is considered for launch within the Cosmic Vision programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). Its main scientific objectives relate to probing various aspects of Einstein's theory of…
Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics
2014-12-31
Gerald Hechenblaikner , Marc-Peter Hess , Marianna Vitelli , Jan Beck
The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed next-generation, underground gravitational-wave (GW) detector to be based in Europe. It will provide about an order of magnitude sensitivity increase with respect to currently operating detectors,…
Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics
2020-10-30
Florian Amann , Fabio Bonsignorio , Tomasz Bulik , Henk Jan Bulten , Stefano Cuccuru , Alain Dassargues , Riccardo DeSalvo , Edit Fenyvesi , Francesco Fidecaro , Irene Fiori , Carlo Giunchi , Aniello Grado , Jan Harms , Soumen Koley , Laszlo Kovacs , Giovanni Losurdo , Vuk Mandic , Patrick Meyers , Luca Naticchioni , Frederic Nguyen , Giacomo Oggiano , Marco Olivieri , Federico Paoletti , Andrea Paoli , Wolfango Plastino , Massimiliano Razzano , Paolo Ruggi , Gilberto Saccorotti , Alicia M Sintes , Laszlo Somlai , Peter Van , Matyas Vasuth
Extragalactic fast X-ray transients (eFXTs) represent a rapidly growing class of high-energy phenomena, whose physical origins remain poorly understood. With its wide-field, sensitive all-sky monitoring, the Einstein Probe (EP) has greatly…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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Run-Duo Liang , Wen-Xiong Li , Liang-Duan Liu , Ken Smith , Stephen Smartt , Niu Li , Arne Rau , Ling-Zhi Wang , Armin Rest , Ezequiel Treister , Jia-Sheng Huang , Franz Bauer , Jennifer Chacon , Ning-Chen Sun , Qin-Yu Wu , Seán Brennan , Matt Nicholl , Ting-Wan Chen , Amar Aryan , Sheng Yang , Albert K. H. Kong , Sofia Rest , Qinan Wang , James Gillanders , Dong-Yue Li , An Li , Jun Yang , Qing-Chang Zhao , Hui Sun , Yun-Fei Xu , Zhi-Xing Ling , Thomas J. L. de Boer , Chien-Cheng Lin , Thomas B. Lowe , Ken C. Chambers , Eugene A. Magnier , J. Quirola-Vásquez , Xiaofeng Wang , Jing-Wei Hu , Yong Chen , Chen Zhang , Dong-Hua Zhao , He-Yang Liu , Hua-Qing Cheng , Chen-Zhou Cui , Shu-Mei Jia , Cheng-Kui Li , Ju Guan , Mao-Hai Huang , Hao-Wei Peng , Samaporn Tinyanont , Yuan Liu , Wei-Min Yuan
Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are extragalactic bursts of soft X-rays first identified >10 years ago. Since then, nearly 40 events have been discovered, although almost all of these have been recovered from archival Chandra and XMM-Newton…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2024-06-21
J. H. Gillanders , L. Rhodes , S. Srivastav , F. Carotenuto , J. Bright , M. E. Huber , H. F. Stevance , S. J. Smartt , K. C. Chambers , T. -W. Chen , R. Fender , A. Andersson , A. J. Cooper , P. G. Jonker , F. J. Cowie , T. deBoer , N. Erasmus , M. D. Fulton , H. Gao , J. Herman , C. -C. Lin , T. Lowe , E. A. Magnier , H. -Y. Miao , P. Minguez , T. Moore , C. -C. Ngeow , M. Nicholl , Y. -C. Pan , G. Pignata , A. Rest , X. Sheng , I. A. Smith , K. W. Smith , J. L. Tonry , R. J. Wainscoat , J. Weston , S. Yang , D. R. Young
The goal of this talk is to give an overview of the current status of the development of the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer ground based gravitational wave (GW) detectors and of their foreseen scientific goals. These detectors will…
The recent launch of Einstein Probe (EP) in early 2024 opened up a new window onto the transient X-ray sky, allowing for real-time discovery and follow-up of fast X-ray transients (FXRTs). Multi-wavelength observations of FXRTs and their…