Einstein Probe - a small mission to monitor and explore the dynamic X-ray Universe
Weimin Yuan, C. Zhang, H. Feng, S. N. Zhang, Z. X. Ling, D. Zhao, J., Deng, Y. Qiu, J. P. Osborne, P. O'Brien, R. Willingale, J. Lapington, G. W., Fraser, the Einstein Probe team

TL;DR
Einstein Probe is a small, highly sensitive X-ray mission designed to discover and monitor high-energy transients and variable sources across the sky, enabling new insights into black holes, gravitational waves, and X-ray variability.
Contribution
It introduces a novel wide-field X-ray imaging system using micro-pore lobster-eye optics for unprecedented sensitivity and sky coverage in time-domain astrophysics.
Findings
Achieves 1.1 sr field-of-view with high sensitivity
Enables rapid transient detection and follow-up observations
Provides comprehensive monitoring of the X-ray sky
Abstract
Einstein Probe is a small mission dedicated to time-domain high-energy astrophysics. Its primary goals are to discover high-energy transients and to monitor variable objects in the keV X-rays, at higher sensitivity by one order of magnitude than those of the ones currently in orbit. Its wide-field imaging capability, featuring a large instantaneous field-of-view (, sr), is achieved by using established technology of micro-pore (MPO) lobster-eye optics, thereby offering unprecedentedly high sensitivity and large Grasp. To complement this powerful monitoring ability, it also carries a narrow-field, sensitive follow-up X-ray telescope based on the same MPO technology to perform follow-up observations of newly-discovered transients. Public transient alerts will be downlinked rapidly, so as to trigger multi-wavelength follow-up observations from the…
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