The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on-board the THESEUS mission
Abstract
We summarize in this contribution the capabilities, design status, and the enabling technologies of the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) planned to be on-board the THESEUS mission. We describe its central role in making THESEUS a powerful machine to probe the physical conditions of the early Universe (close to the reionization era) and to explore the time-domain Universe.
- Publication:
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Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana
- Pub Date:
- 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1802.01675
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1802.01675
- Bibcode:
- 2018MmSAI..89..130O
- Keywords:
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- Gamma-ray burst: general;
- Astronomical instrumentation;
- methods and techniques;
- Instrumentation: imagers;
- Cosmology: early Universe;
- Galaxies: high-redshift;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- To be published in the Proceedings of the THESEUS Workshop 2017 (http://www.isdc.unige.ch/theseus/workshop2017.html), Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society (Mem.SAIt), Editors L. Amati, E. Bozzo, M. Della Valle, D. Gotz, P. O'Brien. Details on the THESEUS mission concept can be found in the white paper Amati et al. 2017 (arXiv:171004638) and Stratta et al. 2017 (arXiv:1712.08153)