The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite
Abstract
The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS), is a Probe-Class mission concept that builds on the legacy of Chandra and Swift. With high spatial resolution, large collecting area, and rapid response to transients, AXIS will be 50 times more sensitive than Chandra to extended sources, and 100 times more sensitive than Swift for time-domain science.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- September 2019
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.04083
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51g.107M
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- A Probe-class mission study commissioned by NASA for the NAS Astro2020 Decadal Survey. Cost section redacted. 66 pages, 41 figures. v2: minor fixes