Synergies of THESEUS with the large facilities of the 2030s and guest observer opportunities
Résumé
The proposed THESEUS mission will vastly expand the capabilities to monitor the high-energy sky. It will specifically exploit large samples of gamma-ray bursts to probe the early universe back to the first generation of stars, and to advance multi-messenger astrophysics by detecting and localizing the counterparts of gravitational waves and cosmic neutrino sources. The combination and coordination of these activities with multi-wavelength, multi-messenger facilities expected to be operating in the 2030s will open new avenues of exploration in many areas of astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics, thus adding considerable strength to the overall scientific impact of THESEUS and these facilities. We discuss here a number of these powerful synergies and guest observer opportunities.
Mots clés
Multi-messenger astrophysics
Gamma-ray bursts
multi-messenger astrophysics
neutrino sources
gravitation wave sources
X-ray sources
Gravitation wave sources
Neutrino sources
gamma-ray bursts
gamma ray: burst
neutrino: particle source
cosmological model
star: formation
neutrino: detector
electromagnetic field: production
gravitational radiation: emission
gravitational radiation: localization
gravitational radiation detector
gamma ray: detector
X-ray: detector
neutrino: production
detector: sensitivity
X-ray: emission
binary: compact
binary: coalescence
black hole: binary
neutron star: binary
Cherenkov Telescope Array