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ESO-Athena Synergy White Paper
- Source :
- NASA Astrophysics Data System
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Abstract
- The Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) is the X-ray observatory mission selected by ESA within its Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme to address the Hot and Energetic Universe scientific theme. The ESO-Athena Synergy Team (EAST) has been tasked to single out the potential scientific synergies between Athena and optical/near-infrared (NIR) and sub/mm ground based facilities, in particular those of ESO (i.e., the VLT and ELT, ALMA and APEX), by producing a White Paper to identify and develop the: 1. needs to access ESO ground-based facilities to achieve the formulated Athena science objectives; 2. needs to access Athena to achieve the formulated science objectives of ESO facilities contemporary to Athena; 3. science areas where the synergetic use of Athena and ESO facilities in the late 2020s will result in scientific added value. Community input to the process happened primarily via a dedicated ESO - Athena Synergy Workshop that took place on Sept. 14 - 16, 2016 at ESO, Garching. This White Paper presents the results of the EAST's work, sorted by synergy area, and deals with the following topics: 1. the Hot Universe: Early groups and clusters and their evolution, Physics of the Intracluster medium, Missing baryons in cosmic filaments; 2. the Energetic Universe: Supermassive black hole (SMBH) history, SMBH accretion disks, Active Galactic Nuclei feedback - Molecular outflows, Ultra-fast outflows, Accretion Physics, Transient Science; 3. Observatory Science: Star Formation, Stars. It then discusses the optical-NIR-sub-mm perspective by providing details on VLT/MOONS, the E-ELT instruments, in particular the MOS, VISTA/4MOST, the ESO and ALMA archives, future ALMA and ESO developments, and finally the (likely) ESO - Athena astronomical scene in the 2020s. (abridged)<br />Comment: 70 pages, 16 figures
- Subjects :
- High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
FOS: Physical sciences
[PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- NASA Astrophysics Data System
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9b5b74153d58e769d197d1059c06b7e7