Colloquium on Dec. 4, 2019
The science of the Einstein Probe mission --- enabling discoveries in time-domain astronomy
Speaker: Weimin Yuan (NAOC)
Venue: Room 2111, SWIFAR Building
Time: 3:00 PM, Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Abstract:
Time-domain astrophysics has come of a new era of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observations with the advent of a fleet of large facilities, enabling a huge discovering space. The CAS’s Einstein Probe (EP) is a space mission (scheduled for launch at end 2022) designed to join this exciting exploration campaign, by carrying out high-cadence all-sky surveys with a wide field-of-view and unprecedented sensitivity in the poorly investigated soft X-ray band. The talk will present the science case of EP, focusing on potential discoveries in the field of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger time-domain astronomy.