THESEUS：多信使天体物理学的标志性空间任务概念
摘要
近期引力波源 GW170817 电磁对应体的发现，展示了多信使观测的巨大信息力。在未来十年，新兴的多信使天文学领域将显著成熟。约 2030 年，第三代引力波探测器将比当前灵敏约十倍。同时，正升级为多 km^3 望远镜的中微子探测器，将包括南半球一座预期约 2030 年运行的 10 km^3 设施。本综述中，我们描述了未来二十年将被探测到的最有前景的高频引力波与中微子源。在此背景下，我们展示了瞬变高能天空与早期宇宙巡天者（THESEUS）的重要作用；THESEUS 是由大型国际合作向 ESA 提出的任务概念，以响应宇宙愿景计划 M5 任务的征集。THESEUS 旨在为早期宇宙科学提供实质性推进，并在多信使与时间域天体物理中扮演基础角色，与未来引力波及中微子探测器以及主要地基与天基望远镜强协同运行。本综述是 THESEUS 白皮书（Amati 等，2017）的扩展，也顾及了 2017 年 10 月 16 日宣布的 GW170817/GRB170817A 的发现。
引用
@article{arxiv.1712.08153,
title = {THESEUS: a key space mission concept for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics},
author = {G. Stratta and R. Ciolfi and L. Amati and G. Ghirlanda and N. Tanvir and E. Bozzo and D. Gotz and P. O'Brien and F. Frontera and J. P. Osborne and L. Rezzolla and A. Rossi and E. Maiorano and S. Vinciguerra and C. Guidorzi and A. Drago and L. Nicastro and E. Palazzi and M. Branchesi and M. Boer and E. Brocato and A. Bulgarelli and S. Covino and V. D'Elia and M. G. Dainotti and M. De Pasquale and B. Gendre and P. Jonker and F. Longo and S. Mereghetti and R. Mignani and C. G. Mundell and S. Piranomonte and M. Razzano and D. Szécsi and M. van Putten and B. Zhang and R. Hudec and S. Vergani and D. Malesani and P. D'Avanzo and S. Colafrancesco and A. Stamerra and J. Caruana and R. Starling and R. Willingale and R. Salvaterra and U. Maio and J. Greiner and P. Rosati and C. Labanti and F. Fuschino and R. Campana and A. Grado and M. Colpi and T. Rodic and B. Patricelli and M. Bernardini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08153},
year = {2018}
}
备注
25 pages, 13 figures, accepted to Advances in Space Research with minor revisions. Details on the THESEUS instrumentation, science case and expected performances can also be found in Amati et al. 2017 (arXiv:1710.04638) and in the presentations of the THESEUS Workshop 2017 (http://www.isdc.unige.ch/theseus/workshop2017-programme.html). v2 few typos corrected