The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on-board the THESEUS mission
P. O'Brien, E. Bozzo, R. Willingale, I. Hutchinson, J. Osborne, L., Amati, D. G\"otz
TL;DR
The paper details the capabilities, design, and enabling technologies of the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the THESEUS mission, emphasizing its role in studying the early Universe and the time-domain Universe.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of the SXI instrument's design, capabilities, and technological innovations for the THESEUS mission.
Findings
SXI will enable probing the early Universe near reionization.
It will explore the time-domain Universe with high sensitivity.
The paper summarizes the instrument's technological readiness.
Abstract
We summarize in this contribution the capabilities, design status, and the en- abling 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.
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Taxonomy
TopicsParticle Detector Development and Performance · Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations · Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena