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1. A blast from the infant Universe: the very high-z GRB 210905A

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A. Rossi, D. D. Frederiks, D. A. Kann, M. De Pasquale, E. Pian, G. Lamb, P. D’Avanzo, L. Izzo, A. J. Levan, D. B. Malesani, A. Melandri, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, S. Schulze, R. Strausbaugh, N. R. Tanvir, L. Amati, S. Campana, A. Cucchiara, G. Ghirlanda, M. Della Valle, S. Klose, R. Salvaterra, R. L. C. Starling, G. Stratta, A. E. Tsvetkova, S. D. Vergani, A. D’Aì, D. Burgarella, S. Covino, V. D’Elia, A. de Ugarte Postigo, H. Fausey, J. P. U. Fynbo, F. Frontera, C. Guidorzi, K. E. Heintz, N. Masetti, E. Maiorano, C. G. Mundell, S. R. Oates, M. J. Page, E. Palazzi, J. Palmerio, G. Pugliese, A. Rau, A. Saccardi, B. Sbarufatti, D. S. Svinkin, G. Tagliaferri, A. J. van der Horst, D. J. Watson, M. V. Ulanov, K. Wiersema, D. Xu, J. Zhang, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, and European Research Council

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Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma-ray burst: general, FOS: Physical sciences, gamma-ray burst: general, gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 210915A, GRB HOST GALAXIES, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, general [gamma-ray burst], very high redshift, NO, GAMMA-RAY BURST, individual: GRB210905A [gamma-ray burst], STAR-FORMATION CLUES, PROMPT EMISSION, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, SWIFT/BAT6 COMPLETE SAMPLE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB210905A, very high redshift, Astronomy and Astrophysics, OPTICAL FLASH, JET OPENING ANGLE, AFTERGLOW LIGHT CURVES, Space and Planetary Science, X-RAY, gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB210905A, gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 210915A, POPULATION III, Gamma-Ray Burst: Individual: GRB 210905A, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
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Full list of authors: Rossi, A.; Frederiks, D. D.; Kann, D. A.; De Pasquale, M.; Pian, E.; Lamb, G.; D'Avanzo, P.; Izzo, L.; Levan, A. J.; Malesani, D. B.; Melandri, A.; Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa; Schulze, S.; Strausbaugh, R.; Tanvir, N. R.; Amati, L.; Campana, S.; Cucchiara, A.; Ghirlanda, G.; Della Valle, M.; Klose, S.; Salvaterra, R.; Starling, R. L. C.; Stratta, G.; Tsvetkova, A. E.; Vergani, S. D.; D'Ai, A.; Burgarella, D.; Covino, S.; D'Elia, V; Postigo, A. de Ugarte; Fausey, H.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Frontera, F.; Guidorzi, C.; Heintz, K. E.; Masetti, N.; Maiorano, F.; Mundell, C. G.; Oates, S. R.; Page, M. J.; Palazzi, E.; Palmerio, J.; Pugliese, G.; Rau, A.; Saccardi, A.; Sbarufatti, B.; Svinkin, D. S.; Tagliaferri, G.; van der Horst, A. J.; Watson, D. J.; Ulanov, M., V; Wiersema, K.; Xu, D.; Zhang, J.--This is an Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited., We present a detailed follow-up of the very energetic GRB 210905A at a high redshift of z = 6.312 and its luminous X-ray and optical afterglow. Following the detection by Swift and Konus-Wind, we obtained a photometric and spectroscopic follow-up in the optical and near-infrared (NIR), covering both the prompt and afterglow emission from a few minutes up to 20 Ms after burst. With an isotropic gamma-ray energy release of Eiso = 1.27−0.19+0.20 × 1054 erg, GRB 210905A lies in the top ∼7% of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the Konus-Wind catalogue in terms of energy released. Its afterglow is among the most luminous ever observed, and, in particular, it is one of the most luminous in the optical at t ≳ 0.5 d in the rest frame. The afterglow starts with a shallow evolution that can be explained by energy injection, and it is followed by a steeper decay, while the spectral energy distribution is in agreement with slow cooling in a constant-density environment within the standard fireball theory. A jet break at ∼46.2 ± 16.3 d (6.3 ± 2.2 d rest-frame) has been observed in the X-ray light curve; however, it is hidden in the H band due to a constant contribution from the host galaxy and potentially from a foreground intervening galaxy. In particular, the host galaxy is only the fourth GRB host at z > 6 known to date. By assuming a number density n = 1 cm−3 and an efficiency η = 0.2, we derived a half-opening angle of 8.4 ° ±1.0°, which is the highest ever measured for a z ≳ 6 burst, but within the range covered by closer events. The resulting collimation-corrected gamma-ray energy release of ≃1 × 1052 erg is also among the highest ever measured. The moderately large half-opening angle argues against recent claims of an inverse dependence of the half-opening angle on the redshift. The total jet energy is likely too large to be sustained by a standard magnetar, and it suggests that the central engine of this burst was a newly formed black hole. Despite the outstanding energetics and luminosity of both GRB 210905A and its afterglow, we demonstrate that they are consistent within 2σ with those of less distant bursts, indicating that the powering mechanisms and progenitors do not evolve significantly with redshift. © A. Rossi et al. 2022., A. Rossi acknowledges support from the INAF project Premiale Supporto Arizona & Italia. D.D.F. and A.E.T. acknowledge support from RSF grant 21-12-00250. D.A.K. acknowledges support from Spanish National Research Project RTI2018-098104-J-I00 (GRBPhot). A.R., E.Pal., P.D.A., L.A., E.Pi., G.S., S.C., V.D.E., M.D.V., and A.M. acknowledge support from PRIN-MIUR 2017 (grant 20179ZF5KS). P.D.A., A.M. acknowledge support from the Italian Space Agency, contract ASI/INAF n. I/004/11/5. L.I. was supported by grants from VILLUM FONDEN (project number 16599 and 25501). D.B.M. and A.J.L. acknowledge the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework programme (FP7-2007-2013) (grant agreement No. 725246). The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation under grant No. 140. K.E.H. acknowledges support by a Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant (217690–051) from The Icelandic Research Fund. C.G.M. acknowledges financial support from Hiroko and Jim Sherwin. Part of the funding for GROND (both hardware as well as personnel) was generously granted from the Leibniz-Prize to Prof. G. Hasinger (DFG grant HA 1850/28-1). This work made use of data supplied by the UK Swift Science Data Centre at the University of Leicester., With funding from the Spanish government through the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation SEV-2017-0709.

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2022

2. Exploration of the high-redshift universe enabled by THESEUS

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Lajos G. Balázs, E. Le Floc'h, René Hudec, Ehud Behar, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Valentina D'Odorico, Silvia Zane, J. P. Osborne, P. T. O'Brien, Stéphane Paltani, Dorottya Szécsi, A. Gomboc, B. Ciardi, Lise Christensen, U. Maio, Yuji Urata, Sandro Mereghetti, Ruben Salvaterra, F. Frontera, E. Piedipalumbo, Sergio Campana, Joseph Caruana, Olga Sergijenko, Pasquier Noterdaeme, A. De Cia, Lorenzo Amati, Diego Götz, Elizabeth R. Stanway, L. V. Toth, S. D. Vergani, M. de Pasquale, Nial R. Tanvir, Z. Bagoly, L. Graziani, M. Della Valle, S. Basa, Piero Rosati, István T. Horváth, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Tanvir, N. R., Le Floc'h, E., Christensen, L., Caruana, J., Salvaterra, R., Ghirlanda, G., Ciardi, B., Maio, U., D'Odorico, V., Piedipalumbo, E., Campana, S., Noterdaeme, P., Graziani, L., Amati, L., Bagoly, Z., Balazs, L. G., Basa, S., Behar, E., De Cia, A., Valle, M. D., De Pasquale, M., Frontera, F., Gomboc, A., Gotz, D., Horvath, I., Hudec, R., Mereghetti, S., O'Brien, P. T., Osborne, J. P., Paltani, S., Rosati, P., Sergijenko, O., Stanway, E. R., Szecsi, D., Toth, L. V., Urata, Y., Vergani, S., Zane, S., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Abundances, Gamma-ray bursts, Reionization, Star forming galaxies, Abundances, Gamma-ray bursts, Reionization, Star forming galaxies, PEAK ENERGY, Metallicity, media_common.quotation_subject, MASS-METALLICITY RELATION, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, DUST FORMATION, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, NO, GAMMA-RAY BURST, X-ray astronomy, NEUTRAL FRACTION, LY-ALPHA, Abundance, 0103 physical sciences, LYMAN-ALPHA EMISSION, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Luminosity function (astronomy), media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Universe, Cosmology, Stars, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, POPULATION III, NO EVIDENCE, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, COSMIC REIONIZATION
Abstract

At peak, long-duration gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous sources of electromagnetic radiation known. Since their progenitors are massive stars, they provide a tracer of star formation and star-forming galaxies over the whole of cosmic history. Their bright power-law afterglows provide ideal backlights for absorption studies of the interstellar and intergalactic medium back to the reionization era. The proposed THESEUS mission is designed to detect large samples of GRBs at $z>6$ in the 2030s, at a time when supporting observations with major next generation facilities will be possible, thus enabling a range of transformative science. THESEUS will allow us to explore the faint end of the luminosity function of galaxies and the star formation rate density to high redshifts; constrain the progress of re-ionisation beyond $z\gtrsim6$; study in detail early chemical enrichment from stellar explosions, including signatures of Population III stars; and potentially characterize the dark energy equation of state at the highest redshifts., Submitted to Experimental Astronomy

Published
2021

3. Observational constraints on the optical and near-infrared emission from the neutron star-black hole binary merger S190814bv

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F. D'Ammando, Mattia Bulla, A. Fiore, P. T. O'Brien, Patricia Schady, T. Heikkilä, Matt Nicholl, Giorgos Leloudas, K. C. Chambers, Luciano Nicastro, Riccardo Ciolfi, Michela Mapelli, Armin Rest, R. Cutter, Tassilo Schweyer, J. Gillanders, G. De Cesare, Lorenzo Amati, L. Nuttal, Lána Salmon, Nancy Elias-Rosa, O. McBrien, A. Grado, David Alexander Kann, Ruben Salvaterra, P. D'Avanzo, M. T. Botticella, Johan P. U. Fynbo, M. G. Bernardini, Francesco Longo, Danny Steeghs, S. X. Yi, Peter G. Jonker, Eliana Palazzi, Y. D. Hu, Zhi-Ping Jin, Seppo Mattila, A. Gomboc, G. Ghirlanda, Alexis Coleiro, Sylvain Chaty, S. Yang, Elizabeth R. Stanway, D. R. Young, Rubina Kotak, Luca Izzo, Franz E. Bauer, Massimo Turatto, Christa Gall, A. Melandri, Eric Thrane, S. R. Oates, Francesca Onori, S. Srivastav, M. Branchesi, Michael S. Smith, Christopher W. Stubbs, Vincenzo Testa, Anders Jerkstrand, J. Japelj, Carlos González-Fernández, Elena Pian, Lluís Galbany, Luca Sbordone, Enrico Cappellaro, A. Possenti, Paul J. Groot, S. Rosetti, L. Denneau, Mark Kennedy, Jesper Sollerman, Klaas Wiersema, Chris M. Copperwheat, Cosimo Inserra, Kasper E. Heintz, E. C. Kool, M. de Pasquale, G. Greco, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, Daniel A. Perley, Om Sharan Salafia, Eugene A. Magnier, T. M. Reynolds, Andrew J. Levan, A. J. van der Horst, G. Stratta, B. Milvang-Jensen, Erkki Kankare, Darach Watson, B. Patricelli, N. B. Sabha, T. W. Chen, Kendall Ackley, Maria Letizia Pumo, Nial R. Tanvir, P. A. Evans, Michał J. Michałowski, S. Klose, R. L. C. Starling, A. J. Castro-Tirado, Sandra Savaglio, J. Quirola-Vásquez, Martin J. Dyer, Pietro Schipani, K. W. Smith, Lukasz Wyrzykowski, M. Della Valle, G. Pignata, S. D. Vergani, Jens Hjorth, A. S. B. Schultz, Mariusz Gromadzki, Saran Poshyachinda, Santiago González-Gaitán, Eugenio Maiorano, D. K. Galloway, Cesare Barbieri, V. D'Elia, Andrea Rossi, G. Ramsay, Seung-Lee Kim, Kornpob Bhirombhakdi, V. S. Dhillon, Enzo Brocato, Ilya Mandel, S. Benetti, J. D. Lyman, Sergio Campana, Fedor Getman, A. Sagués Carracedo, Kate Maguire, Arne Rau, A. S. Fruchter, John L. Tonry, B. P. Gompertz, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Kaj Wiik, Morgan Fraser, N. A. Walton, Stephan Rosswog, M. A.P. Torres, Claudia P. Gutiérrez, F. Ragosta, S. Piranomonte, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, S. H. Bruun, T. B. Lowe, M. E. Huber, S. J. Smartt, Gavin P. Lamb, S. Moran, Albino Perego, R. 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CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Ackley, K., Amati, L., Barbieri, C., Bauer, F. E., Benetti, S., Bernardini, M. G., Bhirombhakdi, K., Botticella, M. T., Branchesi, M., Brocato, E., Bruun, S. H., Bulla, M., Campana, S., Cappellaro, E., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Chambers, K. C., Chaty, S., Chen, T. -W., Ciolfi, R., Coleiro, A., Copperwheat, C. M., Covino, S., Cutter, R., D'Ammando, F., D'Avanzo, P., De Cesare, G., D'Elia, V., Della Valle, M., Denneau, L., De Pasquale, M., Dhillon, V. S., Dyer, M. J., Elias-Rosa, N., Evans, P. A., Eyles-Ferris, R. A. J., Fiore, A., Fraser, M., Fruchter, A. S., Fynbo, J. P. U., Galbany, L., Gall, C., Galloway, D. K., Getman, F. I., Ghirlanda, G., Gillanders, J. H., Gomboc, A., Gompertz, B. P., Gonzalez-Fernandez, C., Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Grado, A., Greco, G., Gromadzki, M., Groot, P. J., Gutierrez, C. P., Heikkila, T., Heintz, K. E., Hjorth, J., Hu, Y. -D., Huber, M. E., Inserra, C., Izzo, L., Japelj, J., Jerkstrand, A., Jin, Z. P., Jonker, P. G., Kankare, E., Kann, D. A., Kennedy, M., Kim, S., Klose, S., Kool, E. C., Kotak, R., Kuncarayakti, H., Lamb, G. P., Leloudas, G., Levan, A. J., Longo, F., Lowe, T. B., Lyman, J. D., Magnier, E., Maguire, K., Maiorano, E., Mandel, I., Mapelli, M., Mattila, S., Mcbrien, O. R., Melandri, A., Michalowski, M. J., Milvang-Jensen, B., Moran, S., Nicastro, L., Nicholl, M., Nicuesa Guelbenzu, A., Nuttal, L., Oates, S. R., O'Brien, P. T., Onori, F., Palazzi, E., Patricelli, B., Perego, A., Torres, M. A. P., Perley, D. A., Pian, E., Pignata, G., Piranomonte, S., Poshyachinda, S., Possenti, A., Pumo, M. L., Quirola-Vasquez, J., Ragosta, F., Ramsay, G., Rau, A., Rest, A., Reynolds, T. M., Rosetti, S. S., Rossi, A., Rosswog, S., Sabha, N. B., Sagues Carracedo, A., Salafia, O. S., Salmon, L., Salvaterra, R., Savaglio, S., Sbordone, L., Schady, P., Schipani, P., Schultz, A. S. B., Schweyer, T., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W., Smith, M., Sollerman, J., Srivastav, S., Stanway, E. R., Starling, R. L. C., Steeghs, D., Stratta, G., Stubbs, C. W., Tanvir, N. R., Testa, V., Thrane, E., Tonry, J. L., Turatto, M., Ulaczyk, K., Van Der Horst, A. J., Vergani, S. D., Walton, N. A., Watson, D., Wiersema, K., Wiik, K., Wyrzykowski, L., Yang, S., Yi, S. -X., Young, D. R., National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), University of Hawaii, Queen's University Belfast, Space Telescope Science Institute (US), National Research Foundation (South Africa), National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, University of Portsmouth, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y Turismo (Chile), Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Chile), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, Danish National Research Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Villum Fonden, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Le Mans Université (UM), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Low Energy Astrophysics (API, FNWI), and API Other Research (FNWI)

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Astronomy, ELECTROMAGNETIC COUNTERPARTS, Supernovae: general, general [Supernovae], Binary number, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, GW170817, neutron, Supernovae: general [Gravitational waves, Stars], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, QB, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, astro-ph.HE, [PHYS]Physics [physics], HAWK-I, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], EJECTA, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE SOURCE, ST/P000495/1, Space Science, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gravitational wave, astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), MASS, NO, GAMMA-RAY BURST, Gravitational waves, 0103 physical sciences, ST/T007184/1, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), STFC, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Near-infrared spectroscopy, KILONOVA, RCUK, Stars: neutron, Astronomy and Astrophysics, neutron [Stars], R-PROCESS NUCLEOSYNTHESIS, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, EVOLUTION, Black hole, Neutron star, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), ST/P000312/1, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Gravitational waves, Stars: neutron, Supernovae: general
Abstract

Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.--Full list of authors: Ackley, K.; Amati, L.; Barbieri, C.; Bauer, F. E.; Benetti, S.; Bernardini, M. G.; Bhirombhakdi, K.; Botticella, M. T.; Branchesi, M.; Brocato, E.; Bruun, S. H.; Bulla, M.; Campana, S.; Cappellaro, E.; Castro-Tirado, A. J.; Chambers, K. C.; Chaty, S.; Chen, T. -W.; Ciolfi, R.; Coleiro, A.; Copperwheat, C. M.; Covino, S.; Cutter, R.; D'Ammando, F.; D'Avanzo, P.; De Cesare, G.; D'Elia, V.; Della Valle, M.; Denneau, L.; De Pasquale, M.; Dhillon, V. S.; Dyer, M. J.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Evans, P. A.; Eyles-Ferris, R. A. J.; Fiore, A.; Fraser, M.; Fruchter, A. S.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Galbany, L.; Gall, C.; Galloway, D. K.; Getman, F. I.; Ghirlanda, G.; Gillanders, J. H.; Gomboc, A.; Gompertz, B. P.; González-Fernández, C.; González-Gaitán, S.; Grado, A.; Greco, G.; Gromadzki, M.; Groot, P. J.; Gutiérrez, C. P.; Heikkilä, T.; Heintz, K. E.; Hjorth, J.; Hu, Y. -D.; Huber, M. E.; Inserra, C.; Izzo, L.; Japelj, J.; Jerkstrand, A.; Jin, Z. P.; Jonker, P. G.; Kankare, E.; Kann, D. A.; Kennedy, M.; Kim, S.; Klose, S.; Kool, E. C.; Kotak, R.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Lamb, G. P.; Leloudas, G.; Levan, A. J.; Longo, F.; Lowe, T. B.; Lyman, J. D.; Magnier, E.; Maguire, K.; Maiorano, E.; Mandel, I.; Mapelli, M.; Mattila, S.; McBrien, O. R.; Melandri, A.; Michałowski, M. J.; Milvang-Jensen, B.; Moran, S.; Nicastro, L.; Nicholl, M.; Nicuesa Guelbenzu, A.; Nuttal, L.; Oates, S. R.; O'Brien, P. T.; Onori, F.; Palazzi, E.; Patricelli, B.; Perego, A.; Torres, M. A. P.; Perley, D. A.; Pian, E.; Pignata, G.; Piranomonte, S.; Poshyachinda, S.; Possenti, A.; Pumo, M. L.; Quirola-Vásquez, J.; Ragosta, F.; Ramsay, G.; Rau, A.; Rest, A.; Reynolds, T. M.; Rosetti, S. S.; Rossi, A.; Rosswog, S.; Sabha, N. B.; Sagués Carracedo, A.; Salafia, O. S.; Salmon, L.; Salvaterra, R.; Savaglio, S.; Sbordone, L.; Schady, P.; Schipani, P.; Schultz, A. S. B.; Schweyer, T.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K. W.; Smith, M.; Sollerman, J.; Srivastav, S.; Stanway, E. R.; Starling, R. L. C.; Steeghs, D.; Stratta, G.; Stubbs, C. W.; Tanvir, N. R.; Testa, V.; Thrane, E.; Tonry, J. L.; Turatto, M.; Ulaczyk, K.; van der Horst, A. J.; Vergani, S. D.; Walton, N. A.; Watson, D.; Wiersema, K.; Wiik, K.; Wyrzykowski, Ł.; Yang, S.; Yi, S. -X.; Young, D. R., Context. Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy has rapidly reached maturity, becoming a fundamental observing window for modern astrophysics. The coalescences of a few tens of black hole (BH) binaries have been detected, while the number of events possibly including a neutron star (NS) is still limited to a few. On 2019 August 14, the LIGO and Virgo interferometers detected a high-significance event labelled S190814bv. A preliminary analysis of the GW data suggests that the event was likely due to the merger of a compact binary system formed by a BH and a NS. Aims. In this paper, we present our extensive search campaign aimed at uncovering the potential optical and near infrared electromagnetic counterpart of S190814bv. We found no convincing electromagnetic counterpart in our data. We therefore use our non-detection to place limits on the properties of the putative outflows that could have been produced by the binary during and after the merger. Methods. Thanks to the three-detector observation of S190814bv, and given the characteristics of the signal, the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations delivered a relatively narrow localisation in low latency - a 50% (90%) credible area of 5 deg2 (23 deg2) - despite the relatively large distance of 267 ± 52 Mpc. ElectromagNetic counterparts of GRAvitational wave sources at the VEry Large Telescope collaboration members carried out an intensive multi-epoch, multi-instrument observational campaign to identify the possible optical and near infrared counterpart of the event. In addition, the ATLAS, GOTO, GRAWITA-VST, Pan-STARRS, and VINROUGE projects also carried out a search on this event. In this paper, we describe the combined observational campaign of these groups. Results. Our observations allow us to place limits on the presence of any counterpart and discuss the implications for the kilonova (KN), which was possibly generated by this NS-BH merger, and for the strategy of future searches. The typical depth of our wide-field observations, which cover most of the projected sky localisation probability (up to 99.8%, depending on the night and filter considered), is r ∼ 22 (resp. K ∼ 21) in the optical (resp. near infrared). We reach deeper limits in a subset of our galaxy-targeted observations, which cover a total ∼50% of the galaxy-mass-weighted localisation probability. Altogether, our observations allow us to exclude a KN with large ejecta mass M 0.1 M- to a high (> 90%) confidence, and we can exclude much smaller masses in a sub-sample of our observations. This disfavours the tidal disruption of the neutron star during the merger. Conclusions. Despite the sensitive instruments involved in the campaign, given the distance of S190814bv, we could not reach sufficiently deep limits to constrain a KN comparable in luminosity to AT 2017gfo on a large fraction of the localisation probability. This suggests that future (likely common) events at a few hundred megaparsecs will be detected only by large facilities with both a high sensitivity and large field of view. Galaxy-targeted observations can reach the needed depth over a relevant portion of the localisation probability with a smaller investment of resources, but the number of galaxies to be targeted in order to get a fairly complete coverage is large, even in the case of a localisation as good as that of this event. © K. Ackley et al. 2020., Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory under ESO programmes 1102.D-0353(E), 1102.D0353(F), 1102.D-0353(Q), 1102.D-0353(G), 0103.D-0070(A), 0103.D-0070(B), 0103.D-0703(A), 0103.D-0722(A), 0103.A-9099(A), 198.D-2010(D) and 60.A9285(A). ATLAS is primarily funded through NEO NASA grants NN12AR55G, 80NSSC18K0284, and 80NSSC18K1575. The ATLAS science products have been made possible through the contributions of the University of Hawaii IfA, the Queen's University Belfast, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the South African Astronomical Observatory. PanSTARRS is primarily funded through NEO NASA grants NASA Grants NNX08AR22G, NNX14AM74G. The PanSTARRS science products for LIGO-Virgo follow-up are made possible through the contributions of the University of Hawaii IfA and the Queen's University Belfast. The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) project acknowledges the support of the Monash-Warwick Alliance; Warwick University; Monash University; She ffield University; Leicester University; Armagh Observatory & Planetarium; the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT); University of Portsmouth; Turku University and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC). Part of the funding for GROND was generously granted from the Leibniz-Prize to Prof. G. Hasinger (DFG grant HA 1850/28-1). The Liverpool Telescope is operated on the island of La Palma by Liverpool John Moores University in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias with financial support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. The WHT and its override programme are operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias; part of these data were taken under program (19A)N3. FEB thanks CONICYT Basal AFB-170002 and Chile's Ministry of Economy fund IC120009. MGB, PDA and AM acknowledge support from ASI grant I/004/11/3. MBr, EC, AP and SPi acknowledge support from MIUR (PRIN 2017 grant 20179ZF5KS). EB, EM and MT acknowledge funding from GRAWITA. SHB is indebted to the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF132) for support. SCa acknowledges support from grant MAE0065741. EC acknowledges the support of the H2020 OPTICON programme 730890. TWC acknowledges the Humboldt Foundation and Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant 842471. MDP thanks Istanbul University for support. PAE acknowledges UKSA support. RAJEF is supported by an STFC studentship. MF is supported by a Royal Society -SFI University Research Fellowship. LG was funded by the EU H2020 programme under MSCA grant no. 839090. CG, JH and LI were supported by a research grant from VILLUM FONDEN (project 16599). CG and LI were supported by a research grant from VILLUM FONDEN (25501). GGh acknowledges the PRIN MIUR "Figaro" for financial support. AGo acknowledges financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency (grants P1-0031, I0-0033, and J1-8136). BPG, AJL and JDL acknowledge support from ERC grant 725246 (TEDE, PI Levan). SGG acknowledges support by FCT Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia and by Project PTDC/FIS-AST-31546. GGr acknowledges the ESCAPE H2020 project no. 824064. MG is supported by the Polish NCN MAESTRO grant 2014/14/A/ST9/00121. PJG acknowledges support from NOVA and from the South African NRF SARChI grant 111692. CPG and MS acknowledge support from EU/FP7-ERC grant no. 615929. KEH acknowledges support by a Project Grant from The Icelandic Research Fund. YDH acknowledges support from the China Scholarships Council. JJ acknowledges support from NOVA and NWO-FAPESP grant for instrumentation. AJ acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC). ZPJ was supported by the Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Jiangsu Province (no. BK20180050). PGJ acknowledges funding from the ERC under Consolidator Grant agreement no. 647208. DAK acknowledges Spanish research project RTI2018-098104-J-I00 (GRBPhot). SKl acknowledges support by DFG grant Kl 766/16-3. ECK acknowledges support from the GREAT research environment. GPL acknowledges support from STFC via grant ST/N000757/1. GL was supported by a research grant (19054) from VILLUM FONDEN. KM acknowledges support from the ERC (grant no. 758638). IM is partially supported by OzGrav (ARC project CE17010000). MMacknowledges support from ERC through ERC-2017-CoG no. 770017. MJM acknowledges the National Science Centre, Poland, grant 2018/30/E/ST9/00208. BMJ and DW are supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark grant DFF-7014-00017. MN is supported by a Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellowship. ANG acknowledges support by grant DFG Kl 766/16-3. PTOB acknowledges funding from STFC. SRO gratefully acknowledges the support of the Leverhulme Trust. FO acknowledges the support of the H2020 Hemera program, grant no. 730970. MAPT was supported by grants RYC-2015-17854 and AYA201783216-P. EP aknowledges financial support from INAF. GP is supported by the Millennium Science Initiative through grant IC120009. MLP is partially supported by a "Linea 2" project of the Catania University. JQV acknowledges support from CONICYT folio 21180886. TMR acknowledges the support of the Vilho, Yrjo and Kalle Vaisala Foundation. ARo acknowledges support from Premiale LBT 2013. SR is supported by VR grants 2016-03657_3 and the research environment grant GREAT, Dnr. 2016-06012, and the Swedish National Space board, Dnr. 107/16. OSS acknowledges the Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR) grant 1.05.06.13. LSa acknowledges the Irish Research Council Scholarship no. GOIPG/2017/1525. SJS acknowledges support from STFC Grant ST/P000312/1. ERS and DS acknowledge funding from UK STFC CG ST/P000495/1. RLCS acknowledges funding from STFC. DS acknowledges support from STFC via grant ST/T007184/1. SDV acknowledges the support of the CNES. LWsupported by Polish NCN DAINA 2017/27/L/ST9/03221. The Cosmic DAWN center is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.

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2020

4. Lyman continuum leakage in faint star-forming galaxies at redshift $z=3-3.5$ probed by gamma-ray bursts

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A. de Ugarte Postigo, J. B. Vielfaure, Tanmoy Laskar, Andrea Rossi, Nial R. Tanvir, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Sergio Campana, Stefano Covino, Valerio D'Elia, Dieter H. Hartmann, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Francois Hammer, Max Gronke, Patrick Petitjean, Andrew J. Levan, David Alexander Kann, S. D. Vergani, Ruben Salvaterra, Klaas Wiersema, M. de Pasquale, M. Arabsalmani, D. B. Malesani, J. T. Palmerio, Kasper E. Heintz, Pall Jakobsson, J. Japelj, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), HEP, INSPIRE, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics [Ljubljana] (FMF), University of Ljubljana, Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK), Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), ASI-Science Data Center, Rome, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), INAF-IASF Milano, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Leicester], University of Leicester, University of Siena, Department of History and Cultural Heritage, Universitá degli Studi dell’Insubria, NUCLEOVIR, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie - UMR (CIRI), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Equipe virus AAV et vecteurs AAV (INSERM U758/ ENS de Lyon), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre de génétique et de physiologie moléculaire et cellulaire (CGPhiMC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Carlsberg Foundation, Villum Fonden, Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, National Science Foundation (US), API Other Research (FNWI), Low Energy Astrophysics (API, FNWI), Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Università degli Studi di Siena = University of Siena (UNISI), Universitá degli Studi dell’Insubria = University of Insubria [Varese] (Uninsubria), Centre de génétique et de physiologie moléculaire et cellulaire (CGPhiMC), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Equipe virus AAV et vecteurs AAV (INSERM U758/ ENS de Lyon), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), ANR-16-CE31-0003,BEaPro,Using the most powerful explosion as probes of the high-redshift Universe(2016), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Raunvísindastofnun (HÍ), Science Institute (UI), Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, and University of Iceland

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Astronomy, gamma-ray burst: general, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, high-redshift [Galaxies], Reionization, galaxies: high-redshift, ABSORPTION, Emission spectrum, GRB AFTERGLOW SPECTRA, dark ages, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, ESCAPE FRACTION, QB, BRIGHT, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Balmer series, Vetrarbrautir, general [Gamma-ray burst], Dark ages, Dark Ages, symbols, reionization, intergalactic medium, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: evolution, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, first stars, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, BD, symbols.namesake, LY-ALPHA, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, First stars, Intergalactic medium, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, CONSTRAINTS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Stjarneðlisfræði, evolution [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, EVOLUTION, Afterglow, HOST GALAXIES, STELLAR, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Gamma-ray burst, EMISSION, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited., Context. The identification of the sources that reionized the Universe and their specific contribution to this process are key missing pieces of our knowledge of the early Universe. Faint star-forming galaxies may be the main contributors to the ionizing photon budget during the epoch of reionization, but their escaping photons cannot be detected directly due to inter-galactic medium opacity. Hence, it is essential to characterize the properties of faint galaxies with significant Lyman continuum (LyC) photon leakage up to z ∼ 4 to define indirect indicators allowing analogs to be found at the highest redshift. Aims. Long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) typically explode in star-forming regions of faint, star-forming galaxies. Through LGRB afterglow spectroscopy it is possible to detect directly LyC photons. Our aim is to use LGRBs as tools to study LyC leakage from faint, star-forming galaxies at high redshift. Methods. Here we present the observations of LyC emission in the afterglow spectra of GRB 191004B at z = 3.5055, together with those of the other two previously known LyC-leaking LGRB host galaxies (GRB 050908 at z = 3.3467, and GRB 060607A at z = 3.0749), to determine their LyC escape fraction and compare their properties. Results. From the afterglow spectrum of GRB 191004B we determine a neutral hydrogen column density at the LGRB redshift of log(NH I/cm−2) = 17.2 ± 0.15, and negligible extinction (AV = 0.03 ± 0.02 mag). The only metal absorption lines detected are C IV and Si IV. In contrast to GRB 050908 and GRB 060607A, the host galaxy of GRB 191004B displays significant Lyman-alpha (Lyα) emission. From its Lyα emission and the non-detection of Balmer emission lines we constrain its star-formation rate (SFR) to 1 ≤ SFR ≤ 4.7 M⊙ yr−1. We fit the Lyα emission with a shell model and find parameters values consistent with the observed ones. The absolute (relative) LyC escape fractions we find for GRB 191004B, GRB 050908 and GRB 060607A are of 0.35−0.11+0.10 (0.43−0.13+0.12), 0.08−0.04+0.05 (0.08−0.04+0.05) and 0.20−0.05+0.05 (0.45−0.15+0.15), respectively. We compare the LyC escape fraction of LGRBs to the values of other LyC emitters found from the literature, showing that LGRB afterglows can be powerful tools to study LyC escape for faint high-redshift star-forming galaxies. Indeed we could push LyC leakage studies to much higher absolute magnitudes. The host galaxies of the three LGRBs presented here have all M1600 > −19.5 mag, with the GRB 060607A host at M1600 > −16 mag. LGRB hosts may therefore be particularly suitable for exploring the ionizing escape fraction in galaxies that are too faint or distant for conventional techniques. Furthermore, the time involved is minimal compared to galaxy studies. © J.-B. Vielfaure et al. 2020, This work is part of the BEaPro project (PI: S.D. Vergani) funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-16-CE31-0003). We thank Giancarlo Ghirlanda for providing useful information. JBV and SDV thank Anne Verhamme for useful discussions. SDV acknowledges financial support from the French Space Agency (CNES). MG was supported by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF2-51409 and acknowledges support from HST grants HST-GO-15643.017-A, HST-AR-15039.003-A, and XSEDE grant TG-AST180036. The Cosmic DAWN center is funded by the DNRF. JPUF thanks the Carlsberg foundation for support. DBM acknowledges support from VILLUM FONDEN research grant 19054. NRT acknowledges support from STFC via grant ST/N000757/1. DAK acknowledges support from Spanish research project RTI2018-098104-J-I00 (GRBPhot). The PanSTARRS1 Surveys (PS1) and the PS1 public science archive have been made possible through contributions by the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project O ffice, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, the Queen's University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation Grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium).Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. The NumPy (van der Walt et al. 2011), SciPy (Virtanen et al. 2020) and matplotlib (Hunter 2007) packages have been extensively used for the preparation and presentation of this work.

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2020

5. THESEUS: A key space mission concept for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

Author

F. Fuschino, Ruben Salvaterra, F. Frontera, M. Branchesi, Bruce Gendre, U. Maio, Stefano Covino, Tomaz Rodic, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Serena Vinciguerra, D. Mereghetti, Andrea Rossi, Lorenzo Amati, Diego Götz, M. H. P. M. van Putten, Monica Colpi, Roberto Mignani, P. D'Avanzo, Riccardo Campana, Eliana Palazzi, Andrea Bulgarelli, M. G. Bernardini, Valerio D'Elia, Jochen Greiner, Elisabetta Maiorano, Enzo Brocato, Joseph Caruana, Piero Rosati, R. L. C. Starling, Nial Tanvir, Riccardo Ciolfi, G. Stratta, S. D. Vergani, S. Colafrancesco, Claudio Labanti, Bing Zhang, Dorottya Szécsi, M. Razzano, Enrico Bozzo, Antonio Stamerra, D. Malesani, René Hudec, Francesco Longo, Luciano Rezzolla, S. Piranomonte, M. de Pasquale, Richard Willingale, B. Patricelli, J. P. Osborne, P. T. O'Brien, Peter G. Jonker, Luciano Nicastro, C. Guidorzi, Aniello Grado, M. Boer, Alessandro Drago, Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Carole Mundell, Centre d'étude spatiale des rayonnements (CESR), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano (IASF-MI), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics, University of Geneva [Switzerland], INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), University of Ferrara [Ferrara], Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Department of Physics and Astronomy [Leicester], University of Leicester, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College of London [London] (UCL), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (OAR), INAF-IASF Milano, Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP), Institut Pythéas (OSU PYTHEAS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ASI-Science Data Center, Rome, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF), National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (ASCR), Department of Astrophysics [Nijmegen], Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud university [Nijmegen]-Radboud university [Nijmegen], Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK), Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), CNR Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Observatoire de Paris - Site de Meudon (OBSPM), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE), Università degli Studi di Ferrara = University of Ferrara (UniFE), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ASU / CAS), Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (CAS), Radboud University [Nijmegen]-Radboud University [Nijmegen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), THESEUS, Stratta, G., Ciolfi, R., Amati, L., Bozzo, E., Ghirlanda, G., Maiorano, E., Nicastro, L., Rossi, A., Vinciguerra, S., Frontera, F., Götz, D., Guidorzi, C., O'Brien, P., Osborne, J. P., Tanvir, N., Branchesi, M., Brocato, E., Dainotti, M. G., De Pasquale, M., Grado, A., Greiner, J., Longo, F., Maio, U., Mereghetti, D., Mignani, R., Piranomonte, S., Rezzolla, L., Salvaterra, R., Starling, R., Willingale, R., Böer, M., Bulgarelli, A., Caruana, J., Colafrancesco, S., Colpi, M., Covino, S., D'Avanzo, P., D'Elia, V., Drago, A., Fuschino, F., Gendre, B., Hudec, R., Jonker, P., Labanti, C., Malesani, D., Mundell, C. G., Palazzi, E., Patricelli, B., Razzano, M., Campana, R., Rosati, P., Rodic, T., Szécsi, D., Stamerra, A., van Putten, M., Vergani, S., Zhang, B., Bernardini, M., Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Università degli Studi di Ferrara (UniFE), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Stratta, G, Ciolfi, R, Amati, L, Bozzo, E, Ghirlanda, G, Maiorano, E, Nicastro, L, Rossi, A, Vinciguerra, S, Frontera, F, Götz, D, Guidorzi, C, O'Brien, P, Osborne, J, Tanvir, N, Branchesi, M, Brocato, E, Dainotti, M, De Pasquale, M, Grado, A, Greiner, J, Longo, F, Maio, U, Mereghetti, D, Mignani, R, Piranomonte, S, Rezzolla, L, Salvaterra, R, Starling, R, Willingale, R, Böer, M, Bulgarelli, A, Caruana, J, Colafrancesco, S, Colpi, M, Covino, S, D'Avanzo, P, D'Elia, V, Drago, A, Fuschino, F, Gendre, B, Hudec, R, Jonker, P, Labanti, C, Malesani, D, Mundell, C, Palazzi, E, Patricelli, B, Razzano, M, Campana, R, Rosati, P, Rodic, T, Szécsi, D, Stamerra, A, van Putten, M, Vergani, S, Zhang, B, and Bernardini, M

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Atmospheric Science, Computer science, Astronomy, Astronomical and space-research instrumentation, Gamma-ray bursts, Gamma-ray sources, X-ray bursts, X-ray sources, Aerospace Engineering, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Economica, astronomical and space-research instrumentation, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), [PHYS]Physics [physics], energy: high, gamma-ray bursts, Gamma-ray source, neutrino: detector, Geophysics, Upgrade, Neutrino detector, upgrade, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic Vision, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), frequency: high, X-ray source, 0103 physical sciences, gravitational radiation: frequency, Gamma-ray burst, X-ray burst, gamma-ray sources, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, family: 3, Astronomy and Astrophysics, gravitational radiation detector, Universe, messenger, electromagnetic, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

The recent discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave source GW170817, has demonstrated the huge informative power of multi-messenger observations. During the next decade the nascent field of multi-messenger astronomy will mature significantly. Around 2030, third generation gravitational wave detectors will be roughly ten times more sensitive than the current ones. At the same time, neutrino detectors currently upgrading to multi km^3 telescopes, will include a 10 km^3 facility in the Southern hemisphere that is expected to be operational around 2030. In this review, we describe the most promising high frequency gravitational wave and neutrino sources that will be detected in the next two decades. In this context, we show the important role of the Transient High Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS), a mission concept proposed to ESA by a large international collaboration in response to the call for the Cosmic Vision Programme M5 missions. THESEUS aims at providing a substantial advancement in early Universe science as well as playing a fundamental role in multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics, operating in strong synergy with future gravitational wave and neutrino detectors as well as major ground- and space-based telescopes. This review is an extension of the THESEUS white paper (Amati et al. 2017), also in light of the discovery of GW170817/GRB170817A that was announced on October 16th, 2017., Comment: 25 pages, 13 figures, accepted to Advances in Space Research with minor revisions. Details on the THESEUS instrumentation, science case and expected performances can also be found in Amati et al. 2017 (arXiv:1710.04638) and in the presentations of the THESEUS Workshop 2017 (http://www.isdc.unige.ch/theseus/workshop2017-programme.html). v2 few typos corrected

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2018

6. X-shooter and ALMA spectroscopy of GRB 161023A - A study of metals and molecules in the line of sight towards a luminous GRB

Author

Da Xu, A. Gomboc, Steve Schulze, Lekshmi Resmi, Morten W. Hansen, C. Guidorzi, I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo, Shiho Kobayashi, J. Bolmer, Jochen Greiner, Lorraine Hanlon, Stefano Covino, S. R. Oates, David Coward, M. de Pasquale, D. A. Kann, P. J. Meintjes, Alain Klotz, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, Franz E. Bauer, Michał J. Michałowski, Christina C. Thöne, A. de Ugarte Postigo, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, R. Martone, Zach Cano, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Sergio Martín, Sergio Campana, Valerio D'Elia, Luca Izzo, Nial R. Tanvir, David Murphy, Lána Salmon, K. Bensch, Tayyaba Zafar, Klaas Wiersema, S. Kim, A. De Cia, Daniel A. Perley, Carole Mundell, D. H. Hartmann, Jonatan Selsing, B. van Soelen, D. Malesani, D. Turpin, Kasper E. Heintz, Pall Jakobsson, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, Fundación BBVA, Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Chile), Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y Turismo (Chile), German Research Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, National Science Centre (Poland), Slovak Research and Development Agency, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Metallicity, Socio-culturale, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, ISM: abundances, spectroscopic [Techniques], 0103 physical sciences, Spectroscopy, ISM [submillimeter], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, individual: GRB 161023A [Gamma-ray burst], molecules [ISM], QB, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), abundances [ISM], ISM [galaxies], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxy, Redshift, ISM: molecules, Afterglow, Stars, gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 161023A, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Content (measure theory), submillimeter: ISM, gamma-ray burst: individual: GRB 161023A / techniques: spectroscopic / ISM: abundances / ISM: molecules / galaxies: ISM / submillimeter: ISM, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], techniques: spectroscopic, galaxies: ISM
Abstract

Context. Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced during the dramatic deaths of massive stars with very short lifetimes, meaning that they explode close to the birth place of their progenitors. Over a short period they become the most luminous objects observable in the Universe, being perfect beacons to study high-redshift star-forming regions. Aims. We aim to use the afterglow of GRB 161023A at a redshift z = 2.710 as a background source to study the environment of the explosion and the intervening systems along its line of sight. Methods. For the first time, we complement ultraviolet (UV), optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy with millimetre spectroscopy using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), which allows us to probe the molecular content of the host galaxy. The X-shooter spectrum shows a plethora of absorption features including fine-structure and metastable transitions of Fe, Ni, Si, C, and O. We present photometry ranging from 43 s to over 500 days after the burst. Results. We infer a host-galaxy metallicity of [Zn/H] = -1.11 ± 0.07, which, corrected for dust depletion, results in [X/H] = -0.94 ± 0.08. We do not detect molecular features in the ALMA data, but we derive limits on the molecular content of log(N/cm) < 15.7 and log(N/cm, which are consistent with those that we obtain from the optical spectra, log(N/cm)< 15.2 and log(N/cm) < 14.5. Within the host galaxy, we detect three velocity systems through UV, optical and NIR absorption spectroscopy, all with levels that were excited by the GRB afterglow. We determine the distance from these systems to the GRB to be in the range between 0.7 and 1.0 kpc. The sight line to GRB 161023A shows nine independent intervening systems, most of them with multiple components. Conclusions. Although no molecular absorption was detected for GRB 161023A, we show that GRB millimetre spectroscopy is now feasible and is opening a new window on the study of molecular gas within star-forming galaxies at all redshifts. The most favoured lines of sight for this purpose will be those with high metallicity and dust.© ESO 2018., AdUP and CT acknowledge support from Ramon y Cajal fellowships RyC-2012-09975 and RyC-2012-09984 and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through projects AYA2014-58381-P and AYA2017-89384-P, AdUP furthermore from the BBVA foundation. DAK acknowledges support from the Spanish research project AYA 2014-58381-P, and from Juan de la Cierva Incorporacion fellowship IJCI-2015-26153. FEB acknowledges support from CONICYT-Chile (Basal-CATA PFB-06/2007) and the Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism's Millennium Science Initiative through grant IC120009, awarded to The Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, MAS. Part of the funding for GROND (both hardware as well as personnel) was generously granted from the Leibniz-Prize to Prof. G. Hasinger (DFG grant HA 1850/28-1). JB acknowledges support through the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award to P. Schady from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. MJM acknowledges the support of the National Science Centre, Poland through the POLONEZ grant 2015/19/P/ST9/04010; this project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 665778. AG acknowledges the financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding No. P1-0031 and project grant No. J1-8136) and networking support by the COST Action GWverse CA16104. Based on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere under ESO programmes 098.A-0055, 098.D-0710 and 0100.D-0649. This paper makes use of the following ALMA data: ADS/JAO.ALMA#2016.1.00862. T. ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada) and NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan) and KASI (Republic of Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO and NAOJ. This work is based in part on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA. Support for this work was provided by NASA through an award issued by JPL/Caltech.

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2018

7. The THESEUS space mission concept: science case, design and expected performances

Author

Martino Marisaldi, Enrico Bozzo, Valerie Connaughton, Dorottya Szécsi, D. Malesani, L. Maraschi, B. Cordier, P. D'Avanzo, Salvatore Capozziello, Darach Watson, C. Contini, Maryam Modjaz, Pierluigi Bellutti, M. de Pasquale, C. Guidorzi, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, O. Boulade, C. Adami, Y. Evangelista, A. Argan, Johan P. U. Fynbo, Y.-W. Dong, Poshak Gandhi, Allan Hornstrup, Eliana Palazzi, Andrea Bulgarelli, Andrea Comastri, E. Geza, Luciano Burderi, Giuseppe Malaguti, D. de Martino, Irfan Kuvvetli, S.-N. Zhang, Claudio Labanti, Fiamma Capitanio, Luca Izzo, Bradley Cenko, A. Melandri, Umberto Maio, Nicola Omodei, Stefano Ettori, C. Butler, S. D. Vergani, S. Zhang, Lajos G. Balázs, Patricia Schady, Federica B. Bianco, M. Branchesi, Jens Hjorth, Jochen Greiner, Felix Ryde, Jean-Gabriel Cuby, Piero Malcovati, Lorraine Hanlon, Peter G. Jonker, M. Della Valle, Elena Pian, Piotr Orleanski, Etienne Renotte, W. Skidmore, L. Sabau-Graziati, Mauro Dadina, Carl Budtz-Jørgensen, Tomaz Rodic, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Luigi Piro, Sheila McBreen, M. Fiorini, M. Topinka, Jan Harms, Riccardo Ciolfi, Yi Chen, Giacomo Vianello, Ester Piedipalumbo, Zsolt Bagoly, Aniello Grado, Yuki Kaneko, Vito Sguera, B. Morelli, E. Le Floc'h, Luciano Rezzolla, K. Wiersema, Remo Ruffini, E. Del Monte, J. P. Osborne, M. G. Bernardini, A. Gomboc, A. De Luca, Stefano Covino, Ian Hutchinson, A. Antonelli, Enzo Brocato, Mark R. Sims, M. Razzano, Elisabetta Maiorano, Jean-Luc Atteia, J. Zicha, S. Korpela, Eros Vanzella, V. D'Elia, M. H. P. M. van Putten, Marco Feroci, Carole Mundell, A. V. Penacchioni, J. Soomin, Gabriele Ghisellini, Sandra Savaglio, N. Shigehiro, Andrea Santangelo, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Avishay Gal-Yam, A. M. Read, Piergiorgio Casella, Giuseppe Baldazzi, B. Ciardi, Pawan Kumar, Li Song, V. Lebrun, G. Zampa, Daisuke Yonetoku, S. Vojtech, Gregor Rauw, Piero Rosati, A. J. Castro-Tirado, Bruce Gendre, Tsvi Piran, A. Rachevski, S. Basa, T. Li, Michela Uslenghi, Gianluca Morgante, Michèle Lavagna, Pascal Chardonnet, Andrew MacFadyen, Asaf Pe'er, Sandro Mereghetti, Alessandro Drago, M. Hafizi, Richard Willingale, D. Morris, Bing Zhang, Paolo Giommi, Andrea Ferrara, Mauro Orlandini, Maria Giovanna Dainotti, N. Masetti, Yuji Urata, Maxim Lyutikov, A. Vacchi, László L. Kiss, E. Campolongo, M. Boer, Lorenzo Amati, Diego Götz, Andrew Blain, M. T. Botticella, C. Tenzer, Monica Colpi, Victor Reglero, Roberto Mignani, Michael S. Briggs, Joseph Caruana, Elizabeth R. Stanway, S. Colafrancesco, Francesca Panessa, H. U. Nargaard-Nielsen, F. Lu, Giuseppe Bertuccio, A. Paizis, P. Romano, S. Vercellone, Luciano Nicastro, S. Paltani, G. Pareschi, G. Stratta, V. Petrosian, João Braga, N. Zampa, Nial Tanvir, James E. Rhoads, Raffaella Margutti, Luca Valenziano, Søren Brandt, S. Boci, Andrea Rossi, Paul J. Callanan, Annalisa Celotti, N. Kawai, René Hudec, Francesco Longo, Primo Attina, G. L. Israel, F. Fuschino, Fabio Finelli, M. Hernanz, Ruben Salvaterra, F. Frontera, P. T. O'Brien, Sergio Campana, Rupal Basak, Riccardo Campana, Eleonora Troja, Jordan Camp, Petr Páta, S. Piranomonte, G. Tagliaferri, Sylvain Guiriec, R. L. C. Starling, B. B. Zhang, Natalia Auricchio, Serena Vinciguerra, Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique (LAPTH), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, European Commission, Czech Grant Agency, ITA, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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Subjects
Ionization, Atmospheric Science, cosmological model, Cherenkov Telescope Array, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomy, Dark age, MASSIVE SINGLE STARS, Star formation rates, Gamma ray, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology: observation, localization, law.invention, Astrophysic, Einstein Telescope, observational cosmology, law, Observational cosmology, Re-ionization, Cosmology: observations, Dark ages, First stars, Gamma-ray: bursts, LIGO, observations [Cosmology], Telescope, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High sensitivity, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Multi-wavelength, energy: high, sezele, gamma-ray bursts, Aerospace Engineering, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, imaging, star: formation, burst [Gamma-ray], observatory, Geophysics, X rays, Cosmology: observation, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, signature, Star, TIDAL DISRUPTION, Gamma-ray: burst, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, SIMILAR-TO 6, Socio-culturale, FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], galaxy: luminosity, X-ray astronomy: instrumentation, 7 CANDIDATE GALAXIES, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, gamma ray: burst, 114 Physical sciences, Settore FIS/03 - Fisica della Materia, X-ray, bursts [Gamma-ray], FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, First star, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], KAGRA, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, LIGHT CURVES, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, gravitational radiation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 115 Astronomy, Space science, redshift, sensitivity, Redshift, NEUTRON-STAR MERGER, messenger, VIRGO, electromagnetic, LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, BLACK-HOLE, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Gamma-ray burst, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

THESEUS is a space mission concept aimed at exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial advancement of multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics. These goals will be achieved through a unique combination of instruments allowing GRB and X-ray transient detection over a broad field of view (more than 1sr) with 0.5¿1 arcmin localization, an energy band extending from several MeV down to 0.3¿keV and high sensitivity to transient sources in the soft X-ray domain, as well as on-board prompt (few minutes) follow-up with a 0.7¿m class IR telescope with both imaging and spectroscopic capabilities. THESEUS will be perfectly suited for addressing the main open issues in cosmology such as, e.g., star formation rate and metallicity evolution of the inter-stellar and intra-galactic medium up to redshift 10, signatures of Pop III stars, sources and physics of re-ionization, and the faint end of the galaxy luminosity function. In addition, it will provide unprecedented capability to monitor the X-ray variable sky, thus detecting, localizing, and identifying the electromagnetic counterparts to sources of gravitational radiation, which may be routinely detected in the late ¿20s/early ¿30s by next generation facilities like aLIGO/ aVirgo, eLISA, KAGRA, and Einstein Telescope. THESEUS will also provide powerful synergies with the next generation of multi-wavelength observatories (e.g., LSST, ELT, SKA, CTA, ATHENA).© 2018 COSPAR, S.E. acknowledges the financial support from contracts ASI-INAF 1/009/10/0, NARO15 ASI-INAF 1/037/12/0 and ASI 2015-046-R.0. R.H. acknowledges GACR grant 13-33324S. S.V. research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 606176. D.S. was supported by the Czech grant 1601116S GA CR. Maria Giovanna Dainotti acknowledges funding from the European Union through the Marie Curie Action FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF, under grant agreement No. 626267 (>Cosmological Candles>).

Published
2018

8. The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing

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Antonios Manousakis, S. Boutloukos, F. Zwart, Jose M. Torrejon, C. Pittori, Alessandro Drago, Dieter H. Hartmann, Feryal Özel, T. J. L. Courvoisier, Tim Johannsen, Jordi José, M. Michalska, Christian Schmid, I. Rashevskaya, Gottfried Kanbach, V. Petracek, L. Bradley, Allan Hornstrup, M. H. Erkut, Sergio Campana, Rudy Wijnands, Andrew Cumming, Nils Andersson, Tomaso Belloni, M. C. Miller, Roman Wawrzaszek, Stefano Bianchi, Enrique García-Berro, Sandro Mereghetti, C. Guidorzi, C. Corral Van Damme, Søren Brandt, Francesco Tombesi, Felix Ryde, Didier Barret, Simon Vaughan, Marco Feroci, T. Di Salvo, C. van Baren, Angelo Antonelli, Marc Ribó, J. L. Atteia, P. Soleri, Alessio Trois, Silvia Zane, G. Mouret, Ersin Gogus, Emanuele Perinati, J. Coker, Piero Malcovati, V. Mangano, F. Jetter, P. Uter, P. Romano, M. Nowak, Roberto Turolla, Laura Tolos, Antonino D'Ai, Laura Alvarez, C. Amoros, Simone Scaringi, A. Possenti, David M. Smith, M. Falanga, A. Goldwurm, René Hudec, Ignacio Negueruela, M. van der Klis, Francesco Longo, José A. Pons, I. M. McHardy, R. Rohlfs, P. Cais, Luigi Stella, S. Di Cosimo, Antoine Rousseau, M. Ayre, M. Gschwender, D. Klochkov, Niels Lund, Chryssa Kouveliotou, P. Azzarello, F. Château, Michael Gabler, S. Vercellone, Martin Durant, I. Donnarumma, Giorgio Matt, Mauro Orlandini, P. Kaaret, Patrick Smith, P. T. O'Brien, A. Argan, M. Orienti, Marco Grassi, Claudio Labanti, Edward F. Brown, Christopher S. Reynolds, Gloria Sala, Y. Evangelista, Gabriel Török, José Braga, Riccardo Campana, Alan Smith, C. Gouiffes, Nevin N. Weinberg, Leonardo Gualtieri, Yannick Favre, P.G. Jonker, Gabriele Giovannini, D. de Martino, Irfan Kuvvetli, S. Motta, Teresa Mineo, Paul J. Groot, Pablo Reig, Martino Marisaldi, Andrea Sanna, Lorenzo Amati, G. L. Israel, D. Macera, K. S. Wood, Pablo Cerdá-Durán, F. Fuschino, Suvi Gezari, Mariano Mendez, Slawomir Suchy, Damien Rambaud, Nanda Rea, R. Artigue, J.-Y. Seyler, S. N. Shore, Frederick K. Lamb, Jörn Wilms, Mark G. Alford, Margarita Hernanz, Thomas M. Tauris, Luca Izzo, Tobias Boenke, J. J. M. in 't Zand, J. Mulačová, P. Binko, Daniel Maier, Jan Schee, Bruce Gendre, Enrico Bozzo, Paul S. Ray, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Simone Migliari, Ignazio Bombaci, Vladimir Karas, Nikolaos Stergioulas, P. P. Laubert, D. Karelin, A. C. Fabian, Giovanni Miniutti, Dacheng Lin, L. Guy, Martine Mouchet, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, Valeria Ferrari, Kai Hebeler, Mark H. Finger, Shigeto Watanabe, Pawel Haensel, H. Jacobs, Adrian Martindale, A. A. Zdziarski, Andrea Santangelo, Giuseppe Baldazzi, Piergiorgio Casella, Fabio Muleri, M. Hailey, Antonio Bianchini, Giuseppe Lodato, E. Del Monte, M. Rapisarda, Zdeněk Stuchlík, Alain Cros, V. Sochora, Laurens Keek, Jorge Casares, Andrew Melatos, Pere Blay, E. Rossi, A. P. Spencer, G. Stratta, Conrado Albertus, J. M. Paredes, M. Ahangarianabhari, Anna L. Watts, M. Del Santo, I. Kreykenbohm, Alessandro Patruno, G. A. Caliandro, C. Feldman, M. Pohl, Fabrizio Tamburini, G. Zampa, Marina Orio, Flemming Hansen, P. Ramon, Ruben Salvaterra, David H. Lumb, Edward M. Cackett, Andrew Shearer, Sharon M. Morsink, L. Pacciani, J.-M. Bonnet Bidaud, A. De Luca, Jérôme Chenevez, Sebastian Diebold, N. Zampa, Carole A. Haswell, Luciano Burderi, E. Cavazzuti, Adam Ingram, Dhiren Kataria, Berend Winter, A. Vacchi, W. Hermsen, P. Giommi, Dong Lai, N. A. Webb, P. Bodin, Dom Walton, Solen Balman, Benjamin Stappers, M. Burgay, Luca Zampieri, Carl Budtz-Jørgensen, Ralph A. M. J. Wijers, Giancarlo Cusumano, J. L. Galvez Sanchez, Raffaella Schneider, Luciano Rezzolla, Alexander Heger, S. Korpela, Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos, Biswajit Paul, Diego Götz, B. Artigues, Paolo Soffitta, M. H. Finger, J. W. den Herder, Paolo Esposito, Kazushi Iwasawa, Poul Erik Holmdahl Olsen, J. Neilsen, Marco Barbera, Deepto Chakrabarty, R. A. Osten, M. Reina Aranda, A. J. Castro-Tirado, Andrea Tramacere, D. Haas, Johannes Dercksen, John A. Tomsick, A. V. Penacchioni, V. D'Elia, Alfonso Collura, Altan Baykal, P. Le Provost, S. Turriziani, Kostas D. Kokkotas, Duncan K. Galloway, Ron Remillard, Juhani Huovelin, Somak Bhattacharyya, Pavel Bakala, Phil Uttley, Richard E. Cole, Mahesh Prakash, L. Kuiper, T. Munoz-Darias, Diego F. Torres, S. Mahmoodifar, G. Ramsay, Andrew Norton, T. Kennedy, Achim Schwenk, L. Zdunik, A. B. Giles, Jerome Rodriguez, C. Motch, Ilya Mandel, Marcello Giroletti, Dimitrios Psaltis, J. Sandberg, Fiamma Capitanio, Remon Cornelisse, M. R. Gilfanov, Peggy Varniere, Franck Cadoux, Peter J. Wheatley, M. de Pasquale, Juri Poutanen, S. Maestre, A. Pellizzoni, Axel Schwope, Diego Altamirano, Piotr Orleanski, V. Vrba, Agata Różańska, Kateřina Goluchová, P. Rodríguez Gil, Niccolò Bucciantini, Stéphane Schanne, Carlo Ferrigno, Thomas J. Maccarone, H. Wende, Tod E. Strohmayer, Tadayuki Takahashi, Francois Lebrun, E. Kuulkers, Jeroen Homan, Maurizio Paolillo, M. A. Perez, J. P. Osborne, A. Alpar, Sanjay Reddy, G.W. Fraser, V. 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Subjects
x-ray and γ-ray instrumentation, compact objects, microchannel plates, X-ray detectors, X-ray imaging, X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray timing, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Applied Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vision, Observatories, Field of view, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, neutron stars, Observatory, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Equipment and services, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Steradian, [ SDU.ASTR.IM ] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, X-ray detector, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Cosmic Vision, Spectral resolution, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, NO, microchannel plate, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, X-rays, compact object, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), dense hadronic matter, Sensors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Accretion (astrophysics), [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Neutron star, 13. Climate action, [ PHYS.ASTR.IM ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Gamma-ray burst, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

The Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) was studied within ESA M3 Cosmic Vision framework and participated in the final down-selection for a launch slot in 2022-2024. Thanks to the unprecedented combination of effective area and spectral resolution of its main instrument, LOFT will study the behaviour of matter under extreme conditions, such as the strong gravitational field in the innermost regions of accretion flows close to black holes and neutron stars, and the supra-nuclear densities in the interior of neutron stars. The science payload is based on a Large Area Detector (LAD, 10 m 2 effective area, 2-30 keV, 240 eV spectral resolution, 1 deg collimated field of view) and a WideField Monitor (WFM, 2-50 keV, 4 steradian field of view, 1 arcmin source location accuracy, 300 eV spectral resolution). The WFM is equipped with an on-board system for bright events (e.g. GRB) localization. The trigger time and position of these events are broadcast to the ground within 30 s from discovery. In this paper we present the status of the mission at the end of its Phase A study., Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 91442T

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2014

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