Prospects for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science with AXIS

Author:

Arcodia Riccardo1ORCID,Bauer Franz E.23ORCID,Cenko S. Bradley45ORCID,Dage Kristen C.6,Haggard Daryl78ORCID,Ho Wynn C. G.9ORCID,Kara Erin1,Koss Michael10ORCID,Liu Tingting11,Mallick Labani121314ORCID,Negro Michela41516ORCID,Pradhan Pragati1718ORCID,Quirola-Vásquez J.2319,Reynolds Mark T.2021ORCID,Ricci Claudio22,Rothschild Richard E.23,Sridhar Navin142425ORCID,Troja Eleonora26,Yao Yuhan2728ORCID

Affiliation:

1. MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

2. Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 306, Santiago 8320165, RM, Chile

3. Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS), Nuncio Monseñor Sótero Sanz 100, Providencia, Santiago, RM, Chile

4. Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

5. Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

6. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University, 666 W Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201, USA

7. Trottier Space Institute at McGill, 3550 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada

8. Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada

9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford, PA 19041, USA

10. Eureka Scientific, 2452 Delmer Street Suite 100, Oakland, CA 94602, USA

11. Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6315, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA

12. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada

13. Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada

14. Cahill Center for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, MC 249-17, 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

15. Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA

16. Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

17. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

18. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, 3700 Willow Creek Road, Prescott, AZ 86301, USA

19. Observatorio Astronómico de Quito, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito 170136, Ecuador

20. Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, 1085 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

21. Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, 140 W 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

22. Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Diego Portales, Avenida Ejercito Libertador 441, Santiago 8370191, RM, Chile

23. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

24. Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA

25. Theoretical High Energy Astrophysics (THEA) Group, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA

26. Department of Physics, University of Rome—Tor Vergata, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00100 Rome, Italy

27. Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, 468 Donner Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

28. Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

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 (80× that of Swift), and a large collecting area (5–10× that of Chandra) across a 24-arcmin diameter field of view at soft X-ray energies (0.3–10.0 keV) 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 h 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. This White Paper is part of a series commissioned for the AXIS Probe Concept Mission; additional AXIS White Papers can be found at the AXIS website.

Funder

NASA Hubble

ANID

CATA-BASAL

FONDECYT

European Research Council

European Union Horizon 2020 Programme

National Science Foundation

Publisher

MDPI AG

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