From Stellar Death to Cosmic Revelations: Zooming in on Compact Objects, Relativistic Outflows and Supernova Remnants with AXIS
S. Safi-Harb, K. B. Burdge, A. Bodaghee, H. An, B. Guest, J. Hare, P., Hebbar, W. C. G. Ho, O. Kargaltsev, D. Kirmizibayrak, N. Klingler, M. Nynka,, M. T. Reynolds, M. Sasaki, N. Sridhar, G. Vasilopoulos, T. E. Woods, H. Yang,, C. Heinke, A. Kong, J. Li, A. MacMaster, L. Mallick

TL;DR
AXIS is a proposed high-resolution X-ray mission that aims to revolutionize our understanding of compact objects, supernova remnants, and related energetic phenomena by providing unprecedented imaging, sensitivity, and rapid response capabilities.
Contribution
The paper introduces AXIS, a NASA probe mission concept designed to significantly advance X-ray astronomy with superior imaging, sensitivity, and response to study compact objects and supernova remnants.
Findings
Enhanced detection of faint X-ray sources.
Improved imaging of crowded regions like globular clusters.
Potential to answer key questions about compact object populations.
Abstract
Compact objects and supernova remnants provide nearby laboratories to probe the fate of stars after they die, and the way they impact, and are impacted by, their surrounding medium. The past five decades have significantly advanced our understanding of these objects, and showed that they are most relevant to our understanding of some of the most mysterious energetic events in the distant Universe, including Fast Radio Bursts and Gravitational Wave sources. However, many questions remain to be answered. These include: What powers the diversity of explosive phenomena across the electromagnetic spectrum? What are the mass and spin distributions of neutron stars and stellar mass black holes? How do interacting compact binaries with white dwarfs - the electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave LISA sources - form and behave? Which objects inhabit the faint end of the X-ray luminosity…
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Taxonomy
TopicsGamma-ray bursts and supernovae · Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research · Seismology and Earthquake Studies
