The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS)
Abstract
The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a mission concept developed in the last years by a large European consortium and currently under study by ESA as one of the three candidates for next M5 mission (launch in 2032). As detailed in Amati et al. 2017 [1] and Stratta et al. 2017 [2], THESEUS aims at exploiting high-redshift GRBs for getting unique clues to the early Universe and, being an unprecedentedly powerful machine for the detection, accurate location (from arcmin to arcsec) and redshift determination of all types of GRBs (long, short, high-z, under-luminous, ultra-long) and many other classes of transient sources and phenomena, at providing a substantial contribution to multi-messenger time-domain astrophysics. Under these respects, THESEUS will show a beautiful synergy with the large observing facilities of the future, like E-ELT, TMT, SKA, CTA, ATHENA, in the electromagnetic domain, as well as with next-generation gravitational-waves and neutrino detectors, thus enhancing importantly their scientific return.
- Publication:
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The Multi-Messenger Astronomy: Gamma-Ray Bursts, Search for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Neutrino Events and Gravitational Waves
- Pub Date:
- 2019
- DOI:
- 10.26119/SAO.2019.1.35434
- Bibcode:
- 2019mmag.conf...16A
- Keywords:
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- THESEUS;
- Gamma-Ray Bursts;
- Early Universe;
- Gravitational Waves;
- Multi-Messenger Astrophysics