X-ray Science Interest Group

Ryan HickoxDartmouth College

John TomsickUC Berkeley/SSL

AAS HEAD Meeting19 March 2019

Physics of the Cosmos

Intro to XRSIG

Schedule for this session

Programmatic update for Lynx — Doug Swartz (MSFC)

Overview of White Papers submitted to the Decadal Survey, in the context of XRSIG goals — Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth)

US involvement in Athena - Mike Garcia (NASA HQ)

Discussion

Intro to XRSIG

X-ray Science Interest Group The goal of the X-ray Science Analysis Group (XRSIG) is to provide quantitative metrics and assessments to NASA in regard to future X-ray observatories. Specifically, the XRSIG will ▪ Track and analyze evolving science goals and requirements in X-ray astronomy, especially

as current "hot" topics evolve. ▪Provide an active communication forum for X-ray astrophysics (e.g., via town hall

meetings at venues such as AAS and APS meetings). ▪Support mission studies and concept development for future X-ray observatories. ▪Analyze technology development and prioritization plans with respect to redefined science

goals and the evolution of mission concepts (i.e., the XRSIG will aid the PhysPAG in analyzing technology needs).

The XRSIG is open to all members of the community. If you are interested in contributing to the work of the XRSIG, please subscribe using the link below. For other inquiries, e-mail co-chairs John Tomsick at jtomsick@ssl.berkeley.edu and Ryan Hickox at ryan.c.hickox@dartmouth.edu

Overview of White Papers submitted Astro2020

▪Track and analyze evolving science goals and requirements in X-ray astronomy, especially as current "hot" topics evolve.

▪Provide an active communication forum for X-ray astrophysics (e.g., via town hall meetings at venues such as AAS and APS meetings).

▪Support mission studies and concept development for future X-ray observatories.

▪Analyze technology development and prioritization plans with respect to redefined science goals and the evolution of mission concepts (i.e., the XRSIG will aid the PhysPAG in analyzing technology needs).

Overview of White Papers submitted Astro2020

AGN/SMBHs Eric Perlman Rela6vis6cJetsintheAccre6on&Collima6onZone:NewChallengesEnabledbyNewInstruments

AGN/SMBHs Dheeraj Pasham ProbingtheCosmologicalEvolu6onofSuper-massiveBlackHolesusingTidalDisrup6onFlares

AGN/SMBHs Elena Gallo Towardsahighaccuracymeasurementofthelocalblackholeoccupa6onfrac6oninlowmassgalaxies

AGN/SMBHs Abderahmen Zoghbi SupermassiveBlackHoleSpinandReverbera6on

AGN/SMBHs Sibasish Laha ThephysicsandastrophysicsofX-rayouRlowsfromAc6veGalac6cNuclei.

AGN/SMBHs Francesco Tombesi DoSupermassiveBlackHoleWindsImpactGalaxyEvolu6on?

AGN/SMBHs George Chartas ANewEraforX-rayLensingStudiesofQuasarsandGalaxies

AGN/SMBHs Eileen Meyer ProspectsforAGNStudiesatHardX-raythroughMeVEnergies

AGN/SMBHs Mateusz Ruszkowski SupermassiveBlackHoleFeedback

AGN/SMBHs Francesca Civano Cosmicevolu6onofsupermassiveblackholes:Aviewintothenexttwodecades

AGN/SMBHs Ryan Hickox ResolvingthecosmicX-raybackgroundwithanext-genera6onhigh-energyX-rayobservatory

AGN/SMBHs Michael Koss BlackHoleGrowthinMergersandDualAGN

AGN/SMBHs Susanne Aalto Extremelyobscuredgalaxynuclei–hiddenAGNsandextremestarbursts

AGN/SMBHs Zoltan Haiman Electromagne6cWindowintotheDawnofBlackHoles

Exoplanets/SolarSystem Sco] Wolk X-rayStudiesofExoplanets

Exoplanets/SolarSystem Jeremy Drake High-EnergyPhotonandPar6cleEffectsonExoplanetAtmospheresandHabitability

Exoplanets/SolarSystem Alycia Weinberger AStrategyforUnderstandingPlanetForma6on

Exoplanets/SolarSystem Bradford Snios X-raysStudiesoftheSolarSystem

GalaxiesandtheCGM Antara Basu-Zych CookingwithX-rays:CanX-raybinariesheattheearlyUniverse?

GalaxiesandtheCGM Edmund Hodges-Kluck HotDriversofStellarFeedbackfrom10to10,000pc

GalaxiesandtheCGM Benjamin Oppenheimer ImprintofDriversofGalaxyForma6onintheCircumgalac6cMedium

GalaxiesandtheCGM David Pooley TheMostPowerfulLensesintheUniverse:QuasarMicrolensingasaProbeoftheLensingGalaxy

GalaxiesandtheCGM Grant Tremblay GalaxyWindsintheAgeofHyperdimensionalAstrophysics

GalaxyClustersandGroups Esra Bulbul ProbingMacro-ScaleGasMo6onsandTurbulenceinDiffuseCosmicPlasmas

GalaxyClustersandGroups Stephen Walker UnveilingtheGalaxyCluster-CosmicWebConnec6onwithX-rayobserva6onsintheNextDecade

GalaxyClustersandGroups Adam Mantz TheFutureLandscapeofHigh-RedshidGalaxyClusterScience

GalaxyClustersandGroups Joel Bregman ASurveyofHotGasintheUniverse

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Lynne Valencic ProbingtheStructureofInterstellarDustfromMicrontoKpcScaleswithX-rayImaging

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Lia Corrales AstromineralogyofinterstellardustwithX-rayspectroscopy

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Eugene Churazov Probing3DDensityandVelocityFieldsofISMinCentersofGalaxieswithFutureX-RayObserva6ons

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Joel Green VariabilityintheAssemblyofProtostellarSystems

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Rachel Osten StellarX-raySpectroscopyAddressesFundamentalPhysicsofStellarCoronae,Accre6on,andWinds,andInformsStellarandPlanetaryStudies

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM HansM. Günther Thefastestcomponentsinstellarjets

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Sco] Wolk UnderstandingGalac6cStarForma6onwithNextGenera6onX-raySpectroscopyandImaging

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Maurice Leutenegger Thecrucialroleofhighresolu6onX-rayspectroscopyinstudiesofmassivestarsandtheirwinds

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Raghvendra Sahai ProbingStrongBinaryInterac6onsandAccre6oninAsympto6cGiantBranchStars

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars Erin Kara X-rayfollow-upofextragalac6ctransients

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars Henric Krawczynski UsingX-RayPolarimetrytoProbethePhysicsofBlackHolesandNeutronStars

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars MATTIA DIMAURO Prospectsforthedetec6onofsynchrotronhalosaroundmiddle-agepulsars

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars Thomas Maccarone CompactStellarJets

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars Neven Vulic TimeDomainStudiesofNeutronStarandBlackHolePopula6ons:X-rayIden6fica6onofCompactObjectTypes

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars Javier Garcia ProbingtheBlackHoleEnginewithMeasurementsoftheRela6vis6cX-rayReflec6onComponent

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars Andreas Zezas X-raybinaries:laboratoriesforunderstandingtheevolu6onofcompactobjectsfromtheirbirthtotheirmergers

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars Murray Brightman Breakingthelimit:Super-Eddingtonaccre6onontoblackholesandneutronstars

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars JamesF Steiner Accre6onPhysicswithFastX-raySpectralTiming

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars Slavko Bogdanov DeterminingtheEqua6onofStateofCold,DenseMa]erwithX-rayObserva6onsofNeutronStars

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars Ilaria Caiazzo Tes6nggeneralrela6vitywithaccre6onontocompactobjects

StellarBlackHoles/X-raybinaries Jon Miller Accre6oninStellar-MassBlackHolesatHighX-raySpectralResolu6on

Supernovae/SNRs Brian Williams FutureX-rayStudiesofSupernovaRemnants

Supernovae/SNRs Samar Safi-Harb High-Resolu6onX-rayImagingStudiesofNeutronStars,PulsarWindNebulaeandSupernovaRemnants

Supernovae/SNRs Laura Lopez SupernovaRemnantsinHighDefini6on

Technology Gabriele Betancourt-Mar6nez UnlockingtheCapabili6esofFutureHigh-Resolu6onX-raySpectroscopyMissionsThroughLaboratoryAstrophysics

AGN/SMBHs Eric Perlman Rela6vis6cJetsintheAccre6on&Collima6onZone:NewChallengesEnabledbyNewInstruments

AGN/SMBHs Dheeraj Pasham ProbingtheCosmologicalEvolu6onofSuper-massiveBlackHolesusingTidalDisrup6onFlares

AGN/SMBHs Elena Gallo Towardsahighaccuracymeasurementofthelocalblackholeoccupa6onfrac6oninlowmassgalaxies

AGN/SMBHs Abderahmen Zoghbi SupermassiveBlackHoleSpinandReverbera6on

AGN/SMBHs Sibasish Laha ThephysicsandastrophysicsofX-rayouRlowsfromAc6veGalac6cNuclei.

AGN/SMBHs Francesco Tombesi DoSupermassiveBlackHoleWindsImpactGalaxyEvolu6on?

AGN/SMBHs George Chartas ANewEraforX-rayLensingStudiesofQuasarsandGalaxies

AGN/SMBHs Eileen Meyer ProspectsforAGNStudiesatHardX-raythroughMeVEnergies

AGN/SMBHs Mateusz Ruszkowski SupermassiveBlackHoleFeedback

AGN/SMBHs Francesca Civano Cosmicevolu6onofsupermassiveblackholes:Aviewintothenexttwodecades

AGN/SMBHs Ryan Hickox ResolvingthecosmicX-raybackgroundwithanext-genera6onhigh-energyX-rayobservatory

AGN/SMBHs Michael Koss BlackHoleGrowthinMergersandDualAGN

AGN/SMBHs Susanne Aalto Extremelyobscuredgalaxynuclei–hiddenAGNsandextremestarbursts

AGN/SMBHs Zoltan Haiman Electromagne6cWindowintotheDawnofBlackHoles

AGN/SMBHs

GalaxiesandtheCGM Antara Basu-Zych CookingwithX-rays:CanX-raybinariesheattheearlyUniverse?

GalaxiesandtheCGM Edmund Hodges-

Kluck HotDriversofStellarFeedbackfrom10to10,000pc

GalaxiesandtheCGM Benjamin Oppenheim

erImprintofDriversofGalaxyForma6onintheCircumgalac6cMedium

GalaxiesandtheCGM David Pooley TheMostPowerfulLensesintheUniverse:QuasarMicrolensing

asaProbeoftheLensingGalaxyGalaxiesandtheCGM Grant Tremblay GalaxyWindsintheAgeofHyperdimensionalAstrophysics

GalaxyClustersandGroups Esra Bulbul ProbingMacro-ScaleGasMo6onsandTurbulenceinDiffuse

CosmicPlasmasGalaxyClustersandGroups Stephen Walker UnveilingtheGalaxyCluster-CosmicWebConnec6onwithX-

rayobserva6onsintheNextDecadeGalaxyClustersandGroups Adam Mantz TheFutureLandscapeofHigh-RedshidGalaxyClusterScience

GalaxyClustersandGroups Joel Bregman ASurveyofHotGasintheUniverse

Galaxies, CGM, Groups, Clusters

Exoplanets/SolarSystem Sco] Wolk X-rayStudiesofExoplanets

Exoplanets/SolarSystem Jeremy Drake High-EnergyPhotonandPar6cleEffectsonExoplanetAtmospheresandHabitability

Exoplanets/SolarSystem Alycia Weinberger AStrategyforUnderstandingPlanetForma6on

Exoplanets/SolarSystem Bradford Snios X-raysStudiesoftheSolarSystem

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Lynne Valencic ProbingtheStructureofInterstellarDustfromMicrontoKpcScaleswithX-rayImaging

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Lia Corrales AstromineralogyofinterstellardustwithX-rayspectroscopy

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Eugene Churazov Probing3DDensityandVelocityFieldsofISMinCentersofGalaxieswithFutureX-RayObserva6ons

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Joel Green VariabilityintheAssemblyofProtostellarSystems

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Rachel Osten StellarX-raySpectroscopyAddressesFundamentalPhysicsofStellarCoronae,Accre6on,andWinds,andInformsStellarandPlanetary

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM HansM. Günther Thefastestcomponentsinstellarjets

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Sco] Wolk UnderstandingGalac6cStarForma6onwithNextGenera6onX-raySpectroscopyandImaging

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Maurice Leutenegger Thecrucialroleofhighresolu6onX-rayspectroscopyinstudiesofmassivestarsandtheirwinds

Stars/StarForma6on/ISM Raghvendra

Sahai ProbingStrongBinaryInterac6onsandAccre6oninAsympto6cGiantBranchStars

Star Formation, ISM, Exoplanets

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

Erin Kara X-rayfollow-upofextragalac6ctransients

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

Henric Krawczynski UsingX-RayPolarimetrytoProbethePhysicsofBlackHolesandNeutronStars

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

MATTIA DIMAURO Prospectsforthedetec6onofsynchrotronhalosaroundmiddle-agepulsars

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

Thomas Maccarone CompactStellarJets

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

Neven Vulic TimeDomainStudiesofNeutronStarandBlackHolePopula6ons:X-rayIden6fica6onofCompactObjectTypes

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

Javier Garcia ProbingtheBlackHoleEnginewithMeasurementsoftheRela6vis6cX-rayReflec6onComponent

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

Andreas Zezas X-raybinaries:laboratoriesforunderstandingtheevolu6onofcompactobjectsfromtheirbirthtotheirmergers

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

Murray Brightman Breakingthelimit:Super-Eddingtonaccre6onontoblackholesandneutronstars

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

JamesF Steiner Accre6onPhysicswithFastX-raySpectralTiming

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

Slavko Bogdanov DeterminingtheEqua6onofStateofCold,DenseMa]erwithX-rayObserva6onsofNeutronStars

StellarBlackHoles/Neutronstars

Ilaria Caiazzo Tes6nggeneralrela6vitywithaccre6onontocompactobjects

StellarBlackHoles/X-raybinaries

Jon Miller Accre6oninStellar-MassBlackHolesatHighX-raySpectralResolu6on

Stellar Black Holes / Neutron Stars

LabAstrophysics Gabriele Betancourt-Mar6nez

UnlockingtheCapabili6esofFutureHigh-Resolu6onX-raySpectroscopyMissionsThroughLaboratoryAstrophysics

Supernovae/SNRs Brian Williams FutureX-rayStudiesofSupernovaRemnants

Supernovae/SNRs Samar Safi-Harb High-Resolu6onX-rayImagingStudiesofNeutronStars,

PulsarWindNebulaeandSupernovaRemnantsSupernovae/SNRs Laura Lopez SupernovaRemnantsinHighDefini6on

Supernovae / SNRs / Lab Astrophysics

Discussion Questions

▪ Where do we see as the most exciting synergies between X-ray astronomy and other areas of astrophysics and cosmology?

e.g., GW/multi-messenger Multiwavelength surveys Coordinated campaigns on transients

▪Are there particularly timely new science opportunities for X-ray astronomy?