X-ray Surveyor Discussion Session Results from the X-ray Vision Workshop

Ryan Allured (1) , Jonathan Arenberg (2) , Akos Bogdan , Rebecca Canning , Eugene Churazov , Francesca Civano , Tracy Clarke , Lia Corrales , Tiziana Di Matteo , Martin Elvis , Giuseppina Fabbiano , Abe Falcone , Javier Garcia , Jessica Gaskin , Itzhak Goldman , Oleg Kargaltsev , Noel Klinger , Martin Laming , Brian Mcnamara , Herman Markevitch , Maxim Marshall , Ana Mosquera , Anthony Mroczkowski , Priyamvada Natarajan , Joey Nielsen , Michael Nowak , Feryal Ozel , Katja Poppenhaeger , Delphine Porquet (3) , Scott Randall , Daniel Schwartz , A. Swartz, Douglas , Tea Temim , Reinout van Weeren , Martin Weisskopf , Irina Zhuravleva , A. Zuhone

1 CfA - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
2 Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
3 ObAS - Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg

This paper summarizes the results of a brainstorming session held during the X-ray Vision Workshop (Oct 6-8, 2015, Washington DC). The workshop was convened to discuss the scientific potential of the X-ray Surveyor mission. The X-ray Surveyor concept, which was defined by the Astrophysics Roadmap, is to effect a 100-fold gain in survey and spectroscopic capability over the Chandra X-ray Observatory, while at least matching Chandra’s sub-arcsecond imaging capability. This paper is intended to inform interested scientists of the growing discussion in our community and to solicit their input in the area of new science that a next generation high-resolution X-ray Observatory may provide for astrophysics. This paper is not an official document and is certainly not the definitive science case for an X-ray Surveyor mission. It is, instead, an early input to this discussion, which we hope will lead to a full reference white paper on the X-Ray Surveyor concept.

Mots clés: X-ray surveys; Spectroscopy

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]; Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Instrumentation et méthodes pour l'astrophysique [astro-ph.IM]

Ryan Allured, Jonathan Arenberg, Akos Bogdan, Rebecca Canning, Eugene Churazov, et al.. X-ray Surveyor Discussion Session Results from the X-ray Vision Workshop. 2015. ⟨hal-02326876⟩