THESEUS 空间任务概念：科学目标、设计与预期性能
天体物理仪器与方法
2018-06-13 v4 高能天体物理现象
摘要
THESEUS 是一个空间任务概念，旨在利用伽马射线暴 (Gamma-Ray Bursts) 探索早期宇宙，并推动多信使天体物理学与时域天体物理学的重大进展。这些目标将通过独特的仪器组合来实现，该组合允许在超过 1 sr 的宽视场内进行 GRB 和 X 射线暂现源探测，定位精度达 0.5-1 arcmin，能带覆盖从数 MeV 降至 0.3 keV，对软 X 射线波段的暂现源具有高灵敏度，并可通过 0.7 m 级红外望远镜进行星载即时（数分钟内）后续观测，该望远镜兼具成像与光谱能力。THESEUS 将非常适合解决宇宙学中的主要开放性问题，例如，直至红移 10 的恒星形成率与星际及星系际介质的金属丰度演化、Pop III 恒星的印记、再电离的来源与物理机制，以及星系光度函数的暗端。此外，它将提供前所未有的 X 射线变源天空监测能力，从而探测、定位并识别引力辐射源的电磁对应体，这些引力辐射源可能在 20 世纪 20 年代末 / 30 年代初由下一代设施（如 aLIGO/aVirgo、eLISA、KAGRA 和 Einstein Telescope）常规探测到。THESEUS 还将与下一代多波长天文台（如 LSST、ELT、SKA、CTA、ATHENA）产生强大的协同效应。
引用
@article{arxiv.1710.04638,
title = {The THESEUS space mission concept: science case, design and expected performances},
author = {L. Amati and P. O'Brien and D. Goetz and E. Bozzo and C. Tenzer and F. Frontera and G. Ghirlanda and C. Labanti and J. P. Osborne and G. Stratta and N. Tanvir and R. Willingale and P. Attina and R. Campana and A. J. Castro-Tirado and C. Contini and F. Fuschino and A. Gomboc and R. Hudec and P. Orleanski and E. Renotte and T. Rodic and Z. Bagoly and A. Blain and P. Callanan and S. Covino and A. Ferrara and E. Le Floch and M. Marisaldi and S. Mereghetti and P. Rosati and A. Vacchi and P. D'Avanzo and P. Giommi and A. Gomboc and S. Piranomonte and L. Piro and V. Reglero and A. Rossi and A. Santangelo and R. Salvaterra and G. Tagliaferri and S. Vergani and S. Vinciguerra and M. Briggs and E. Campolongo and R. Ciolfi and V. Connaughton and B. Cordier and B. Morelli and M. Orlandini and C. Adami and A. Argan and J. -L. Atteia and N. Auricchio and L. Balazs and G. Baldazzi and S. Basa and R. Basak and P. Bellutti and M. G. Bernardini and G. Bertuccio and J. Braga and M. Branchesi and S. Brandt and E. Brocato and C. Budtz-Jorgensen and A. Bulgarelli and L. Burderi and J. Camp and S. Capozziello and J. Caruana and P. Casella and B. Cenko and P. Chardonnet and B. Ciardi and S. Colafrancesco and M. G. Dainotti and V. D'Elia and D. De Martino and M. De Pasquale and E. Del Monte and M. Della Valle and A. Drago and Y. Evangelista and M. Feroci and F. Finelli and M. Fiorini and J. Fynbo and A. Gal-Yam and B. Gendre and G. Ghisellini and A. Grado and C. Guidorzi and M. Hafizi and L. Hanlon and J. Hjorth and L. Izzo and L. Kiss and P. Kumar and I. Kuvvetli and M. Lavagna and T. Li and F. Longo and M. Lyutikov and U. Maio and E. Maiorano and P. Malcovati and D. Malesani and R. Margutti and A. Martin-Carrillo and N. Masetti and S. McBreen and R. Mignani and G. Morgante and C. Mundell and H. U. Nargaard-Nielsen and L. Nicastro and E. Palazzi and S. Paltani and F. Panessa and G. Pareschi and A. Pe'er and A. V. Penacchioni and E. Pian and E. Piedipalumbo and T. Piran and G. Rauw and M. Razzano and A. Read and L. Rezzolla and P. Romano and R. Ruffini and S. Savaglio and V. Sguera and P. Schady and W. Skidmore and L. Song and E. Stanway and R. Starling and M. Topinka and E. Troja and M. van Putten and E. Vanzella and S. Vercellone and C. Wilson-Hodge and D. Yonetoku and G. Zampa and N. Zampa and B. Zhang and B. B. Zhang and S. Zhang and S. -N. Zhang and A. Antonelli and F. Bianco and S. Boci and M. Boer and M. T. Botticella and O. Boulade and C. Butler and S. Campana and F. Capitanio and A. Celotti and Y. Chen and M. Colpi and A. Comastri and J. -G. Cuby and M. Dadina and A. De Luca and Y. -W. Dong and S. Ettori and P. Gandhi and E. Geza and J. Greiner and S. Guiriec and J. Harms and M. Hernanz and A. Hornstrup and I. Hutchinson and G. Israel and P. Jonker and Y. Kaneko and N. Kawai and K. Wiersema and S. Korpela and V. Lebrun and F. Lu and A. MacFadyen and G. Malaguti and L. Maraschi and A. Melandri and M. Modjaz and D. Morris and N. Omodei and A. Paizis and P. Pata and V. Petrosian and A. Rachevski and J. Rhoads and F. Ryde and L. Sabau-Graziati and N. Shigehiro and M. Sims and J. Soomin and D. Szecsi and Y. Urata and M. Uslenghi and L. Valenziano and G. Vianello and S. Vojtech and D. Watson and J. Zicha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04638},
year = {2018}
}
备注
Accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research. Partly based on the proposal submitted on October 2016 in response to the ESA Call for next M5 mission, with expanded and updated science sections