本地宇宙的动态X射线天空
高能天体物理现象
2009-02-24 v1
摘要
在未来十年，我们可以预期时域天文学在光学和射电波段蓬勃发展。与这些努力并行，需要一台专门运行于更高能量（X射线波段至软伽马射线）的瞬变“机器”，以揭示那些主要在100 eV以上可见的、具有可变辐射的独特事件子集。这里我们聚焦于因缺乏专门用于捕捉高能瞬变并实现快速协调多波段后续观测的灵敏、宽视场和触发设施而从未被采样的瞬变相空间。我们首先描述了仅通过此类设施才能实现的对已知X射线瞬变体理解的进展，然后聚焦于理论上预测超出当前探测能力的瞬变体类别。最后，存在揭示新类别X射线瞬变体并通过在更长波段的协调后续观测揭示其本质的激动人心的机遇。
引用
@article{arxiv.0902.3674,
title = {The Dynamic X-ray Sky of the Local Universe},
author = {Alicia M. Soderberg and Jonathan E. Grindlay and Joshua S. Bloom and Suvi Gezari and Anthony L. Piro and Tomaso Belloni and Jifeng Liu and Ada Paizis and Edo Berger and Paolo Coppi and Nobu Kawai and Neil Gehrels and Brian Metzger and Branden Allen and Didier Barret and Angela Bazzano and Giovanni Bignami and Patrizia Caraveo and Stephane Corbel and Andrea De Luca and Jeremy Drake and Pepi Fabbiano and Mark Finger and Marco Feroci and Dieter Hartmann and JaeSub Hong and Garrett Jernigan and Philip Kaaret and Chryssa Kouveliotou and Alexander Kutyrev and Avi Loeb and Giovanni Pareschi and Gerry Skinner and Rosanne Di Stefano and Gianpiero Tagliaferri and Pietro Ubertini and Michiel van der Klis and Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3674},
year = {2009}
}
备注
8 pages, 2 figures; White Paper submitted to the Astro2010 SSE panel