Transient Astrophysics Probe: White Paper. [Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020)]

Camp, Jordan ; Abel, Josh ; Barthelmy, Scott ; Bautz, Mark ; Behar, Ehud ; Berger, Edo ; Spolaor, Sarah ; Cenko, S Brad ; Cornish, Neil ; Dal Canton, Tito(Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Hanover, Germany)

关键词: ASTROPHYSICS;    LASER INTERFEROMETRY;    SPECTRAL COUNTERPARTS (ASTRONOMY);    BLACK HOLES (ASTRONOMY);    GRAVITATIONAL WAVES;    GAMMA RAY BURSTS;    X RAYS;    PULSARS;    NEUTRON STARS;    LISA (OBSERVATORY);    ELECTROMAGNETISM;    X RAY TELESCOPES;    INFRARED TELESCOPES;    GAMMA RAY TELESCOPES;    X RAY ASTRONOMY;    INFRARED ASTRONOMY;    GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY;    MISSION PLANNING;    MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS;    NASA SPACE PROGRAMS;   

RP-ID  :  GSFC-E-DAA-TN70871

学科分类：天体物理学

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【 摘 要 】

The Transient Astrophysics Probe (TAP) is a wide-field multi-wavelength transient mission proposed for flight starting in the late 2020s. The mission instruments include unique ``Lobster-eye'' imaging soft X-ray optics that allow an approximately 1600-degrees-squared Field of View (FoV); a high sensitivity, 1-degree-squared FoV soft X-ray telescope; a 1-degree-squared FoV Infrared telescope with bandpass 0.6 to 3 microns; and a set of 8 NaI gamma-ray detectors. TAP's most exciting capability will be the observation of tens per year of X-ray and Infrared counterparts of gravitational waves (GWs) involving stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ) / Virgo / KAGRA (Kamioka (Japan) Gravitational Wave Detector) / LIGO-India, and possibly several per year X-ray counterparts of GWs from supermassive black holes, detected by LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) and Pulsar Timing Arrays. TAP will also discover hundreds of X-ray transients related to compact objects, including tidal disruption events, supernova shock breakouts, and Gamma-Ray Bursts from the epoch of reionization.