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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10 Feb 2025
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!
youtube.com/watch?v=2Hl4D7Kq…
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14 Jan 2025
Group photo of our AXIS science team during our session yesterday at #AAS245 😊
You can catch the whole session on our AXIS YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCm7fExM…
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13 Jan 2025
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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13 Jan 2025
Science team member Kevin Burdge now talks about the AXIS galactic plane and bulge survey!
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13 Jan 2025
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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13 Jan 2025
We now have science team member @DarylHaggard presenting on time-domain and multi-messenger science with AXIS.
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13 Jan 2025
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 investigate what are the progenitors of Type Ia SNe, by discovering at 60 least new ultra-compact binaries!
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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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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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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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13 Jan 2025
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!
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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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