Overview of the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS)

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2023-10-05

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Christopher S. Reynolds, Erin A. Kara, Richard F. Mushotzky, Andrew Ptak, Michael J. Koss, Brian J. Williams, Steven W. Allen, Franz E. Bauer, Marshall Bautz, Arash Bogadhee, Kevin B. Burdge, Nico Cappelluti, Brad Cenko, George Chartas, Kai-Wing Chan, Lía Corrales, Tansu Daylan, Abraham D. Falcone, Adi Foord, Catherine E. Grant, Mélanie Habouzit, Daryl Haggard, Sven Herrmann, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Oleg Kargaltsev, George W. King, Marina Kounkel, Laura A. Lopez, Stefano Marchesi, Michael McDonald, Eileen Meyer, Eric D. Miller, Melania Nynka, Takashi Okajima, Fabio Pacucci, Helen R. Russell, Samar Safi-Harb, Keivan G. Strassun, Anna Trindade Falcão, Stephen A. Walker, Joern Wilms, Mihoko Yukita, and William W. Zhang "Overview of the advanced x-ray imaging satellite (AXIS)", Proc. SPIE 12678, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII, 126781E (5 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677468

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The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a Probe-class concept that will build on the legacy of the Chandra x-ray Observatory by providing low-background, arcsecond-resolution in the 0.3-10 keV band across a 450 arcminute² field of view, with an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity. AXIS utilizes breakthroughs in the construction of lightweight segmented x-ray optics using single-crystal silicon, and developments in the fabrication of large-format, small-pixel, high readout rate CCD detectors with good spectral resolution, allowing a robust and cost-effective design. Further, AXIS will be responsive to target-of-opportunity alerts and, with onboard transient detection, will be a powerful facility for studying the time-varying x-ray universe, following on from the legacy of the Neil Gehrels (Swift) x-ray observatory that revolutionized studies of the transient x-ray Universe. In this paper, we present an overview of AXIS, highlighting the prime science objectives driving the AXIS concept and how the observatory design will achieve these objectives.