Synergies of THESEUS with the large facilities of the 2030s and guest observer opportunities

P. Rosati , S. Basa (1) , A.W. Blain , E. Bozzo , M. Branchesi , L. Christensen , A. Ferrara , A. Gomboc , P.T. O'Brien , J.P. Osborne , A. Rossi , F. Schüssler (2) , M. Spurio , N. Stergioulas , G. Stratta , L. Amati , S. Casewell , R. Ciolfi , G. Ghirlanda , S. Grimm , D. Guetta , J. Harms , E. Le Floc'H (3) , F. Longo , M. Maggiore , S. Mereghetti , G. Oganesyan , R. Salvaterra , N.R. Tanvir , S. Turriziani , S.D. Vergani (4) , S. Balman , J. Caruana , M.H. Erkut , G. Guidorzi , F. Frontera , A. Martin-Carrillo , S. Paltani , D. Porquet (1) , O. Sergijenko

1 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
2 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
3 AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
4 GEPI - Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation

The proposed THESEUS mission will vastly expand the capabilities to monitor the high-energy sky. It will specifically exploit large samples of gamma-ray bursts to probe the early universe back to the first generation of stars, and to advance multi-messenger astrophysics by detecting and localizing the counterparts of gravitational waves and cosmic neutrino sources. The combination and coordination of these activities with multi-wavelength, multi-messenger facilities expected to be operating in the 2030s will open new avenues of exploration in many areas of astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics, thus adding considerable strength to the overall scientific impact of THESEUS and these facilities. We discuss here a number of these powerful synergies and guest observer opportunities.

Mots clés: Multi-messenger astrophysics; Gamma-ray bursts; multi-messenger astrophysics; neutrino sources; gravitation wave sources; X-ray sources; Gravitation wave sources; Neutrino sources; gamma-ray bursts; gamma ray: burst; neutrino: particle source; cosmological model; star: formation; neutrino: detector; electromagnetic field: production; gravitational radiation: emission; gravitational radiation: localization; gravitational radiation detector; gamma ray: detector; X-ray: detector; neutrino: production; detector: sensitivity; X-ray: emission; binary: compact; binary: coalescence; black hole: binary; neutron star: binary; Cherenkov Telescope Array

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

P. Rosati, S. Basa, A.W. Blain, E. Bozzo, M. Branchesi, et al.. Synergies of THESEUS with the large facilities of the 2030s and guest observer opportunities. Exper.Astron., 2021, 52 (3), pp.407-437. ⟨10.1007/s10686-021-09764-2⟩. ⟨hal-03224683⟩