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21 August 2024 THESEUS: Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor
Enrico Bozzo, Lorenzo Amati, Paul O’Brien, Diego Goetz, Andrea Santangelo
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Abstract
THESEUS is a space mission concept that is undergoing a Phase A study by ESA as a candidate M7 mission. The mission aims at exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial advancement of multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics. The mission will exploit high-redshift GRBs for cosmology and allow the identification and study of the electromagnetic counterparts to sources of gravitational waves, which will be routinely detected in the ’30s by next-generation facilities like aLIGO/aVirgo, LISA, KAGRA, and Einstein Telescope (ET), as well as of most classes of X/gamma-ray transient sources. As such, THESEUS will secure ideal synergies with virtually all electromagnetic facilities of the near future like, e.g., LSST, ELT, TMT, SKA, CTA, ATHENA. These breakthrough scientific objectives will be achieved by an unprecedented combination of X/gamma-ray monitors and an on-board NIR telescope.
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(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Enrico Bozzo, Lorenzo Amati, Paul O’Brien, Diego Goetz, and Andrea Santangelo "THESEUS: Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor", Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 130932B (21 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3022804
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KEYWORDS
Astrophysics

Electromagnetism

Equipment

Space operations

Telescopes

Cosmology

Near infrared

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