International Conference
The multi-messenger astronomy:
gamma-ray bursts, search for electromagnetic counterparts to
neutrino events and gravitational waves

7-14 October 2018

The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) Lorenzo Amati on behalf of the THESEUS international collaboration

Abstract

      The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a mission concept developed in the last years by a large European consortium and currently under study by ESA as one of the three candidates for next M5 mission (launch in 2032). As detailed in Amati et al. 2017 [1] and Stratta et al. 2017 [2], THESEUS aims at exploiting high-redshift GRBs for getting unique clues to the early Universe and, being an unprecedentedly powerful machine for the detection, accurate location (from ~arcmin to ~arcsec) and redshift determination of all types of GRBs (long, short, ~high-z, under-luminous, ultra-long) and many other classes of transient sources and phenomena, at providing a substantial contribution to multi-messenger time-domain astrophysics. Under these respects, THESEUS will show a beautiful synergy with the large observing facilities of the future, like E-ELT, TMT, SKA, CTA, ATHENA, in the electromagnetic domain, as well as with next-generation gravitational-waves and neutrino detectors, thus enhancing importantly their scientific return.

Reference:
Lorenzo Amati on behalf of the THESEUS international collaboration "The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS)", in Proceedings of the International Conference "The multi-messenger astronomy: gamma-ray bursts, search for electromagnetic counterparts to neutrino events and gravitational waves", Russia, Nizhnij Arkhyz (SAO RAS), Terskol (BNO INR RAS), October, 7 - 14, 2018, Publishing house SNEG, Pyatigorsk, 2019, ISBN 978-5-6041711-1-0, pp. 16-24.
DOI: 10.26119/SAO.2019.1.35434
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