Prospects for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science with AXIS
Abstract
The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) promises revolutionary science in the X-ray and multi-messenger time domain. AXIS will leverage excellent spatial resolution (<1.5 arcsec), sensitivity (80x that of Swift), and a large collecting area (5-10x that of Chandra) across a 24-arcmin diameter field of view to discover and characterize a wide range of X-ray transients from supernova-shock breakouts to tidal disruption events to highly variable supermassive black holes. The observatory's ability to localize and monitor faint X-ray sources opens up new opportunities to hunt for counterparts to distant binary neutron star mergers, fast radio bursts, and exotic phenomena like fast X-ray transients. AXIS will offer a response time of <2 hours to community alerts, enabling studies of gravitational wave sources, high-energy neutrino emitters, X-ray binaries, magnetars, and other targets of opportunity. This white paper highlights some of the discovery science that will be driven by AXIS in this burgeoning field of time domain and multi-messenger astrophysics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2311.07658,
title = {Prospects for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science with AXIS},
author = {The AXIS Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science Working Group and : and Riccardo Arcodia and Franz E. Bauer and S. Bradley Cenko and Kristen C. Dage and Daryl Haggard and Wynn C. G. Ho and Erin Kara and Michael Koss and Tingting Liu and Labani Mallick and Michela Negro and Pragati Pradhan and J. Quirola-Vasquez and Mark T. Reynolds and Claudio Ricci and Richard E. Rothschild and Navin Sridhar and Eleonora Troja and Yuhan Yao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07658},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
This White Paper is part of a series commissioned for the AXIS Probe Concept Mission; additional AXIS White Papers can be found at http://axis.astro.umd.edu