Speaker
Description
The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a space mission
concept currently under Phase A study by ESA as candidate M5 mission, aiming at exploiting
Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial
advancement of multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics. Through an unprecedented
combination of X-/gamma-rays monitors, an on-board IR telescope and automated fast slewing
capabilities, THESEUS will be a wonderful machine for the detection, characterization and
redshift measurement of any kind of GRBs and many classes of X-ray transients. In addition
to the full exploitaiton of high-redshift GRBs for cosmology (pop-III stars, cosmic
re-ionization, SFR and metallicity evolution up to the "cosmic dawn"), THESEUS will allow
the identification and study of the electromagnetic counterparts to sources of
gravitational waves which will be routinely detected in the late '20s / early '30s by next
generation facilities like aLIGO/aVirgo, LISA, KAGRA, and Einstein Telescope (ET), as well
as of most classes of transient sources, thus providing an ideal sinergy with the large
e.m. facilities of the near future like LSST, ELT, TMT, SKA, CTA, ATHENA.
Details
Dr. Lorenzo Amati, Director of Research (full professor), INAF - OAS Bologna, ITALY, https://www.oas.inaf.it/it/
| Is this abstract from experiment? | No |
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| Name of experiment and experimental site | THESEUS space mission project (https://www.isdc.unige.ch/theseus/) |
| Is the speaker for that presentation defined? | Yes |
| Internet talk | Yes |
