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Title: | The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) |
Authors: | Amati, Lorenzo Caruana, Joseph |
Authors: | The THESEUS Collaboration |
Keywords: | X-ray astronomy Gamma-ray bursts Cosmology |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | The THESEUS Collaboration |
Citation: | Amati, L. (2018). The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS). In The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Relativistic Field Theories: Proceedings of the MG14 Meeting on General Relativity, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, 12–18 July 2015 (pp. 3295-3300). |
Abstract: | The Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a mission concept under development by a large international collaboration aimed at exploiting gamma-ray bursts for investigating the early Universe. The main scientific objectives of THESEUS include: investigating the star formation rate and metallicity evolution of the ISM and IGM up to redshift ∼9–10, detecting the first generation (pop III) of stars, studying the sources and physics of re-ionization, detecting the faint end of galaxies luminosity function. These goals will be achieved through a unique combination of instruments allowing GRB detection and arcmin localization over a broad FOV (more than 1sr) and an energy band extending from several MeVs down to 0.3 keV with unprecedented sensitivity, as well as on-board prompt (few minutes) follow-up with a 0.6m class IR telescope with both imaging and spectroscopic capabilities. Such instrumentation will also allow THESEUS to unveil and study the population of soft and sub-energetic GRBs, and, more in general, to perform monitoring and survey of the X-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/87657 |
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