SKA-Athena Synergy White Paper
Abstract
The Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (Athena) is the X-ray observatory large mission selected by the European Space Agency (ESA), within its Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme, to address the "Hot and Energetic Universe" scientific theme (Nandra et al. 2013), and it is provisionally due for launch in the early 2030s. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is the next generation radio observatory and consists of two telescopes, one comprised of dishes operating at mid frequencies (SKA1-MID) and located in South Africa, and the other comprised of Log-Periodic antennas operating at low radio frequencies (SKA1-LOW), which will be located in Australia (Braun et al. 2017). The scientific commissioning of the radio telescope is planned to begin in 2021-2022. The SKA-Athena Synergy Team (SAST) has been tasked to single out the potential scientific synergies between Athena and SKA. The astrophysical community was involved in this exercise primarily through a dedicated SKA-Athena Synergy Workshop, which took place on April 24-25, 2017 at SKAO, Jodrell Bank, Manchester. The final result of the synergy exercise, this White Paper, describes in detail a number of scientific opportunities that will be opened up by the combination of Athena and SKA, these include: 1. the Cosmic Dawn; 2. the Evolution of black holes and galaxies; 3. Active galaxy feedback in galaxy clusters; 4. Non-thermal phenomena in galaxy clusters; 5. Detecting the cosmic web; 6. Black-hole accretion physics and astrophysical transients; 7. Galactic astronomy: stars, planets, pulsars and supernovae.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.09080,
title = {SKA-Athena Synergy White Paper},
author = {R. Cassano and R. Fender and C. Ferrari and A. Merloni and T. Akahori and H. Akamatsu and Y. Ascasibar and D. Ballantyne and G. Brunetti and E. Corbelli and J. Croston and I. Donnarumma and S. Ettori and R. Ferdman and L. Feretti and J. Forbrich and C. Gheller and G. Ghirlanda and F. Govoni and A. Ingallinera and M. Johnston-Hollitt and M. Markevitch and A. Mesinger and V. Moss and F. Nicastro and P. Padovani and F. Panessa and L. Piro and G. Ponti and G. Pratt and E. M. Rossi and E. Sadler and M. Sasaki and R. Soria and I. Stevens and R. van Weeren and F. Vazza and N. Webb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09080},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
79 pages, 28 figures. A high resolution version of the White Paper is available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HpuGUlDGl2oWHV7j7fQPDYnkZZ15af2I