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arxiv 2311.00780 v1 pith:CKTJGIMP submitted 2023-11-01 astro-ph.IM astro-ph.HE

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

Christopher S. Reynolds , Erin A. Kara , Richard F. Mushotzky , Andrew Ptak , Michael J. Koss , Brian J. Williams , Steven W. Allen , Franz E. Bauer
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Marshall Bautz Arash Bodaghee Kevin B. Burdge Nico Cappelluti Brad Cenko George Chartas Kai-Wing Chan L\'ia Corrales Tansu Daylan Abraham D. Falcone Adi Foord Catherine E. Grant M\'elanie Habouzit Daryl Haggard Sven Herrmann Edmund Hodges-Kluck Oleg Kargaltsev George W. King Marina Kounkel Laura A. Lopez Stefano Marchesi Michael McDonald Eileen Meyer Eric D. Miller Melania Nynka Takashi Okajima Fabio Pacucci Helen R. Russell Samar Safi-Harb Keivan G. Stassun Anna Trindade Falc\~ao Stephen A. Walker Joern Wilms Mihoko Yukita William W. Zhang (on behalf of the AXIS Science Community)
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The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a Probe-class concept that will build on the legacy of the Chandra X-ray Observatory by providing low-background, arcsecond-resolution imaging in the 0.3-10 keV band across a 450 arcminute$^2$ field of view, with an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity. AXIS utilizes breakthroughs in the construction of lightweight segmented X-ray optics using single-crystal silicon, and developments in the fabrication of large-format, small-pixel, high readout rate CCD detectors with good spectral resolution, allowing a robust and cost-effective design. Further, AXIS will be responsive to target-of-opportunity alerts and, with onboard transient detection, will be a powerful facility for studying the time-varying X-ray universe, following on from the legacy of the Neil Gehrels (Swift) X-ray observatory that revolutionized studies of the transient X-ray Universe. In this paper, we present an overview of AXIS, highlighting the prime science objectives driving the AXIS concept and how the observatory design will achieve these objectives.

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