AXIS X-ray Probe

AXIS is the next-gen X-ray telescope that revolutionizes the study of SMBHs and other X-ray emitters...greatly expanding our grasp of how the Universe works.

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Check out AXIS science team member @DarylHaggard on The CRAM Podcast as she speaks about black holes and how AXIS will transform our understanding of them!

https://t.co/cbZdRwH93I

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Group photo of our AXIS science team during our session yesterday at #AAS245 ��

You can catch the whole session on our AXIS YouTube channel: https://t.co/3KNu52c54i

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Lastly, join us at our community workshop this May!

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Deputy-PI @ErinAstro now presents on GO AXIS science and how to get involved!

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We’re also putting together an AXIS science book, please consider writing a science proposal for an investigation you’re passionate about! Drafts due Feb. 21!

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The galactic plane survey will reach a flux sensitive of 10^-15 erg s^-1 cm^-2, over 100 square degrees where we expect to detect about 1 million X-ray sources!

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Science team member Kevin Burdge now talks about the AXIS galactic plane and bulge survey!

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AXIS will also investigate what are the progenitors of Type Ia SNe, by discovering at 60 least new ultra-compact binaries!

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We now have science team member @DarylHaggard presenting on time-domain and multi-messenger science with AXIS.

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One of the main AXIS is probing is how are relativistic jets launched by NS mergers? AXIS will identify and monitor 50 new neutron star binary mergers!

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AXIS will also probe what are the progenitors of core-collapse SNe. AXIS will study all types of core collapse SNe, pushing us back to z~3!

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Additionally, AXIS will probe when galaxy clusters got their metals. Our current measurements go up to z=1, and AXIS will push these measurements up to higher z

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Now we have Science team member Edmund Hodges-Kluck presenting on probing feedback in and around galaxies with AXIS

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A second question AXIS will probe is: Do AGN regulate gas cooling in galaxies? AXIS will do this by measuring the jet power from cavity power in 21 early-type galaxies.

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AXIS will put the first constraints on the dual AGN fraction across cosmic time, giving us insight on the role mergers play in SMBH growth!

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Science team member @Fabio_Pacucci presents on the high-z SMBH science capable with AXIS!

AXIS surveys will be farther, wider, and faster than currently possible.

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AXIS will also detect the largest sample of X-ray dual AGN to date!