A double-edged sword: extra-galactic Fast X-ray Transients
ERC (European Research Council)HORIZON-ERCID: 101095973
EC Contribution
€30,000
Consortium Size
1 orgs
Start Year
2023
▶Summary
We will use extra-galactic Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) to study binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. Merging neutron stars are important for the formation of r-process elements and provide standardizable signals allowing the Hubble constant (H0) to be measured maximizing the science output of these multi-messenger events. Comparing BNS mergers with and without an FXT signal provides a way to constrain the elusive equation of state of matter at supra-nuclear densities. Unlike the highly beamed short gamma-ray burst signal associated with BNS mergers, the FXT signal is ~isotropic providing us with the means to quickly localise the merger, even for events out to the BNS merger detection horizon of the 3rd generation of GW detectors such as Einstein Telescope or Cosmic Explorer. A high-risk aspect is that the link between FXTs and BNSs is not yet 100% certain. FXTs manifest as singular short flashes of X-ray photons with durations ranging from minutes to hours. The imminent launch of the all-sky X-ray survey satellite Einstein Probe together with the recent deployment of premiere ground-based instrumentation will revolutionize this field by enabling the discovery and immediate follow-up of a statistically significant sample of more than a hundred bright FXTs over the >3-yr Einstein Probe mission duration. Complemented with a comprehensive study of the FXT host galaxies, this will lead to a breakthrough in our understanding of FXTs and enabling us to measure the yield of r-process elements, H0, and the maximum mass of a neutron star using BNS mergers. In addition to our main goals, we expect serendipitous discoveries in this new research field.
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Project Results (12)
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▶Publications (12)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
J. Quirola-Vásquez; F. E. Bauer; P. G. Jonker; A. Levan; W. N. Brandt; M. Ravasio; D. Eappachen; Y. Q. Xue; X. C. Zheng
EP 250108a/SN 2025kg: Observations of the Most Nearby Broad-line Type Ic Supernova Following an Einstein Probe Fast X-Ray Transient
Jillian C. Rastinejad, Andrew J. Levan, Peter G. Jonker, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Christopher L. Fryer, Nikhil Sarin, Benjamin P. Gompertz, Chang Liu, Rob A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Wen-fai Fong, Eric Burns, James H. Gillanders, Ilya Mandel, Daniele Bjørn Malesani, Paul T. O’Brien, Nial R. Tanvir, Kendall Ackley, Amar Aryan, Franz E. Bauer, Steven Bloemen, Thomas de Boer, Clécio R. Bom, Jennifer A. Chacón, Ken Chambers, Ting-Wan Chen, Ashley A. Chrimes, Joyce N. D. van Dalen, Valerio D’Elia, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Michael D. Fulton, Paul J. Groot, Rahul Gupta, Dieter H. Hartmann, Agnes P. C. van Hoof, Mark E. Huber, Luca Izzo, Wynn Jacobson-Galan, Páll Jakobsson, Albert Kong, Tanmoy Laskar, Thomas B. Lowe, Eugene A. Magnier, Elisabetta Maiorano, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Lluis Mas-Ribas, Daniel Mata Sánchez, Matt Nicholl, Christopher J. Nixon, Samantha R. Oates, Gregory Paek, Jesse Palmerio, Diego Paris, Daniëlle L. A. Pieterse, Giovanna Pugliese, Jonathan A. Quirola Vasquez, Jan van Roestel, Andrea Rossi, Alicia Rouco Escorial, Ruben Salvaterra, Benjamin Schneider, Stephen J. Smartt, Ken Smith, Ian A. Smith, Shubham Srivastav, Manuel A. P. Torres, Chiara Ventura, Paul Vreeswijk, Richard Wainscoat, Yi-Jung Yang, Sheng Yang
EP240801a/XRF 240801B: An X-Ray Flash Detected by the Einstein Probe and the Implications of Its Multiband Afterglow
Shuai-Qing Jiang, Dong Xu, Agnes P. C. van Hoof, Wei-Hua Lei, Yuan Liu, Hao Zhou, Yong Chen, Shao-Yu Fu, Jun Yang, Xing Liu, Zi-Pei Zhu, Alexei V. Filippenko, Peter G. Jonker, A. S. Pozanenko, He Gao, Xue-Feng Wu, Bing Zhang, Gavin P Lamb, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Shiho Kobayashi, Franz Erik Bauer, Hui Sun, Giovanna Pugliese, Jie An, Valerio D’Elia, Johan P. U. Fynbo, WeiKang Zheng, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Yi-Han Iris Yin, Yuan-Chuan Zou, Adam T. Deller, N. S. Pankov, A. A. Volnova, A. S. Moskvitin, O. I. Spiridonova, D. V. Oparin, V. Rumyantsev, O. A. Burkhonov, Sh. A. Egamberdiyev, V. Kim, M. Krugov, A. M. Tatarnikov, R. Inasaridze, Andrew J. Levan, Daniele Bjørn Malesani, Maria E. Ravasio, Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez, Joyce N. D. van Dalen, Javi Sánchez-Sierras, Daniel Mata Sánchez, Stuart P. Littlefair, Jennifer A. Chacón, Manuel A. P. Torres, Ashley A. Chrimes, Nikhil Sarin, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Vik Dhillon, Yi Yang, Thomas G. Brink, Rebecca L. Davies, Sheng Yang, Amar Aryan, Ting-Wan Chen, Albert K. H. Kong, Wen-Xiong Li, Rui-Zhi Li, Jirong Mao, Ignacio Pérez-García, Emilio J. Fernández-García, Moira Andrews, Joseph Farah, Zhou Fan, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, D. Andrew Howell, Dieter Hartmann, Jing-Wei Hu, Páll Jakobsson, Cheng-Kui Li, Zhi-Xing Ling, Curtis McCully, Megan Newsome, Benjamin Schneider, Kaew Samaporn Tinyanont, Ning-Chen Sun, Giacomo Terreran, Qing-Wen Tang, Wen-Xin Wang, Jing-Jing Xu, Wei-Min Yuan, Bin-Bin Zhang, Hai-Sheng Zhao, Juan Zhang
Fast X-ray transient EP240315A from a Lyman-continuum-leaking galaxy at z ≈ 5
Andrew J. Levan; Peter G. Jonker; Andrea Saccardi; Daniele Bjørn Malesani; Nial R. Tanvir; Luca Izzo; Kasper E. Heintz; Daniel Mata Sánchez; Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez; Manuel A. P. Torres; Susanna D. Vergani; Steve Schulze; Andrea Rossi; Paolo D’Avanzo; Benjamin P. Gompertz; Antonio Martin-Carrillo; Antonio de Ugarte Postigo; Benjamin Schneider; Weimin Yuan; Zhixing Ling; Wenjie Zhang; Xuan Mao; Yuan Liu; Hui Sun; Dong Xu; Zipei Zhu; José Feliciano Agüí Fernández; Lorenzo Amati; Franz E. Bauer; Sergio Campana; Francesco Carotenuto; Ashley Chrimes; Joyce N. D. van Dalen; Valerio D’Elia; Massimo Della Valle; Massimiliano De Pasquale; Vikram S. Dhillon; Lluís Galbany; Nicola Gaspari; Giulia Gianfagna; Andreja Gomboc; Nusrin Habeeb; Dieter Hartmann; Agnes P. C. van Hoof; Youdong Hu; Pall Jakobsson; Yashaswi Julakanti; Judith Korth; Chryssa Kouveliotou; Tanmoy Laskar; Stuart P. Littlefair; Elisabetta Maiorano; Jirong Mao; Andrea Melandri; M. Coleman Miller; Tamal Mukherjee; Samantha R. Oates; Paul O’Brien; Jesse T. Palmerio; Hannu Parviainen; Daniëlle L. A. Pieterse; Silvia Piranomonte; Luigi Piro; Giovanna Pugliese; Maria E. Ravasio; Ben Rayson; Ruben Salvaterra; Rubén Sánchez-Ramírez; Nikhil Sarin; Samuel P. R. Shilling; Rhaana L. C. Starling; Gianpiero Tagliaferri; Aishwarya Linesh Thakur; Christina C. Thöne; Klaas Wiersema; Isabelle Worssam; Tayyaba Zafar
Science objectives of the Einstein Probe mission
Weimin Yuan, Lixin Dai, Hua Feng, Chichuan Jin, Peter Jonker, Erik Kuulkers, Yuan Liu, Kirpal Nandra, Paul O’Brien, Luigi Piro, Arne Rau, Nanda Rea, Jeremy Sanders, Lian Tao, Junfeng Wang, Xuefeng Wu, Bing Zhang, Shuangnan Zhang, Shunke Ai, Johannes Buchner, Esra Bulbul, Hechao Chen, Minghua Chen, Yong Chen, Yu-Peng Chen, Alexis Coleiro, Francesco Coti Zelati, Zigao Dai, Xilong Fan, Zhou Fan, Susanne Friedrich, He Gao, Chong Ge, Mingyu Ge, Jinjun Geng, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Giulia Gianfagna, Lijun Gou, Sébastien Guillot, Xian Hou, Jingwei Hu, Yongfeng Huang, Long Ji, Shumei Jia, S. Komossa, Albert K. H. Kong, Lin Lan, An Li, Ang Li, Chengkui Li, Dongyue Li, Jian Li, Zhaosheng Li, Zhixing Ling, Ang Liu, Jinzhong Liu, Liangduan Liu, Zhu Liu, Jiawei Luo, Ruican Ma, Pierre Maggi, Chandreyee Maitra, Alessio Marino, Stephen Chi-Yung Ng, Haiwu Pan, Surangkhana Rukdee, Roberto Soria, Hui Sun, Pak-Hin Thomas Tam, Aishwarya Linesh Thakur, Hui Tian, Eleonora Troja, Wei Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Yanan Wang, Junjie Wei, Sixiang Wen, Jianfeng Wu, Ting Wu, Di Xiao, Dong Xu, Renxin Xu, Yanjun Xu, Yu Xu, Haonan Yang, Bei You, Heng Yu, Yunwei Yu, Binbin Zhang, Chen Zhang, Guobao Zhang, Liang Zhang, Wenda Zhang, Yu Zhang, Ping Zhou, Zecheng Zou
Soft X-ray prompt emission from the high-redshift gamma-ray burst EP240315a
Y. Liu; H. Sun; D. Xu; D. S. Svinkin; J. Delaunay; N. R. Tanvir; H. Gao; C. Zhang; Y. Chen; X.-F. Wu; B. Zhang; W. Yuan; J. An; G. Bruni; D. D. Frederiks; G. Ghirlanda; J.-W. Hu; A. Li; C.-K. Li; J.-D. Li; D. B. Malesani; L. Piro; G. Raman; R. Ricci; E. Troja; S. D. Vergani; Q.-Y. Wu; J. Yang; B.-B. Zhang; Z.-P. Zhu; A. de Ugarte Postigo; A. G. Demin; D. Dobie; Z. Fan; S.-Y. Fu; J. P. U. Fynbo; J.-J. Geng; G. Gianfagna; Y.-D. Hu; Y.-F. Huang; S.-Q. Jiang; P. G. Jonker; Y. Julakanti; J. A. Kennea; A. A. Kokomov; E. Kuulkers; W.-H. Lei; J. K. Leung; A. J. Levan; D.-Y. Li; Y. Li; S. P. Littlefair; X. Liu; A. L. Lysenko; Y.-N. Ma; A. Martin-Carrillo; P. O’Brien; T. Parsotan; J. Quirola-Vásquez; A. V. Ridnaia; S. Ronchini; A. Rossi; D. Mata-Sánchez; B. Schneider; R.-F. Shen; A. L. Thakur; A. Tohuvavohu; M. A. P. Torres; A. E. Tsvetkova; M. V. Ulanov; J.-J. Wei; D. Xiao; Y.-H. I. Yin; M. Bai; V. Burwitz; Z.-M. Cai; F.-S. Chen; H.-L. Chen; T.-X. Chen; W. Chen; Y.-F. Chen; Y.-H. Chen; H.-Q. Cheng; B. Cordier; C.-Z. Cui; W.-W. Cui; Y.-F. Dai; Z.-G. Dai; J. Eder; R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris; D.-W. Fan; C. Feldman; H. Feng; Z. Feng; P. Friedrich; X. Gao; J.-F. Gonzalez; J. Guan; D.-W Han; J. Han; D.-J. Hou; H.-B. Hu; T. Hu; M.-H. Huang; J. Huo; I. Hutchinson; Z. Ji; S.-M. Jia; Z.-Q. Jia; B.-W. Jiang; C.-C. Jin; G. Jin; J.-J. Jin; A. Keereman; H. Lerman; J.-F. Li; L.-H. Li; M.-S. Li; W. Li; Z.-D. Li; T.-Y. Lian; E.-W. Liang; Z.-X. Ling; C.-Z. Liu; H.-Y. Liu; H.-Q. Liu; M.-J. Liu; Y.-R. Liu; F.-J. Lu; H.-J. Lü; L.-D. Luo; F. L. Ma; J. Ma; J.-R. Mao; X. Mao; M. McHugh; N. Meidinger; K. Nandra; J. P. Osborne; H.-W. Pan; X. Pan; M. E. Ravasio; A. Rau; N. Rea; U. Rehman; J. Sanders; A. Santovincenzo; L.-M. Song; J. Su; L.-J. Sun; S.-L. Sun; X.-J. Sun; Y.-Y. Tan; Q.-J. Tang; Y.-H. Tao; J.-Z. Tong; C.-Y. Wang; H. Wang; J. Wang; L. Wang; W.-X. Wang; X.-F. Wang; X.-Y. Wang; Y.-L. Wang; Y.-S. Wang; D.-M. Wei; R. Willingale; S.-L. Xiong; H.-T. Xu; J.-J. Xu; X.-P. Xu; Y.-F. Xu; Z. Xu; C.-B. Xue; Y.-L. Xue; A.-L. Yan; F. Yang; H.-N. Yang; X.-T. Yang; Y.-J Yang; Y.-W. Yu; J. Zhang; M. Zhang; S.-N. Zhang; W.-D. Zhang; W.-J. Zhang; Y.-H. Zhang; Z. Zhang; Z. Zhang; Z.-L. Zhang; D.-H. Zhao; H.-S. Zhao; X.-F. Zhao; Z.-J. Zhao; L.-X. Zhou; Y.-L. Zhou; Y.-X. Zhu; Z.-C. Zhu; X.-X. Zuo
The Day-long, Repeating GRB 250702B: A Unique Extragalactic Transient
Andrew J. Levan, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Tanmoy Laskar, Rob A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Albert Sneppen, Maria Edvige Ravasio, Jillian C. Rastinejad, Joe S. Bright, Francesco Carotenuto, Ashley A. Chrimes, Gregory Corcoran, Benjamin P. Gompertz, Peter G. Jonker, Gavin P. Lamb, Daniele B. Malesani, Andrea Saccardi, Javier Sánchez-Sierras, Benjamin Schneider, Steve Schulze, Nial R. Tanvir, Susanna D. Vergani, Darach Watson, Jie An, Franz E. Bauer, Sergio Campana, Laura Cotter, Joyce N. D. van Dalen, Valerio D’Elia, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo, null Dimple, Dieter H. Hartmann, Jens Hjorth, Luca Izzo, Páll Jakobsson, Amit Kumar, Andrea Melandri, Paul O’Brien, Silvia Piranomonte, Giovanna Pugliese, Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez, Rhaana Starling, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Dong Xu, Makenzie E. Wortley
The Einstein Probe Transient EP240414a: Linking Fast X-Ray Transients, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients
Joyce N. D. van Dalen; Andrew J. Levan; Peter G. Jonker; Daniele Bjørn Malesani; Luca Izzo; Nikhil Sarin; Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez; Daniel Mata Sánchez; Antonio de Ugarte Postigo; Agnes P. C. van Hoof; Manuel A. P. Torres; Steve Schulze; Stuart P. Littlefair; Ashley Chrimes; Maria E. Ravasio; Franz E. Bauer; Antonio Martin-Carrillo; Morgan Fraser; Alexander J. van der Horst; Pall Jakobsson; Paul O’Brien; Massimiliano De Pasquale; Giovanna Pugliese; Jesper Sollerman; Nial R. Tanvir; Tayyaba Zafar; Joseph P. Anderson; Lluís Galbany; Avishay Gal-Yam; Mariusz Gromadzki; Tomás E. Müller-Bravo; Fabio Ragosta; Jacco H. Terwel
The Kangaroo’s First Hop: The Early Fast Cooling Phase of EP250108a/SN 2025kg
Rob A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Peter G. Jonker, Andrew J. Levan, Daniele Bjørn Malesani, Nikhil Sarin, Christopher L. Fryer, Jillian C. Rastinejad, Eric Burns, Nial R. Tanvir, Paul T. O’Brien, Wen-fai Fong, Ilya Mandel, Benjamin P. Gompertz, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Steven Bloemen, Joe S. Bright, Francesco Carotenuto, Gregory Corcoran, Laura Cotter, Paul J. Groot, Luca Izzo, Tanmoy Laskar, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Jesse Palmerio, Maria E. Ravasio, Jan van Roestel, Andrea Saccardi, Rhaana L. C. Starling, Aishwarya Linesh Thakur, Susanna D. Vergani, Paul M. Vreeswijk, Franz E. Bauer, Sergio Campana, Jennifer A. Chacón, Ashley A. Chrimes, Stefano Covino, Joyce N. D. van Dalen, Valerio D’Elia, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Nusrin Habeeb, Dieter H. Hartmann, Agnes P. C. van Hoof, Páll Jakobsson, Yashaswi Julakanti, Giorgos Leloudas, Daniel Mata Sánchez, Christopher J. Nixon, Daniëlle L. A. Pieterse, Giovanna Pugliese, Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez, Ben C. Rayson, Ruben Salvaterra, Ben Schneider, Manuel A. P. Torres, Tayyaba Zafar
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Anne Inkenhaag; Peter G. Jonker; Andrew J. Levan; Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez; Franz E. Bauer; Deepak Eappachen
Astronomy and Astrophysics
H. C. I. Wichern; M. E. Ravasio; P. G. Jonker; J. A. Quirola-Vásquez; A. J. Levan; F. E. Bauer; D. A. Kann
Discovery of the Optical and Radio Counterpart to the Fast X-Ray Transient EP 240315a
J. H. Gillanders; L. Rhodes; S. Srivastav; F. Carotenuto; J. Bright; M. E. Huber; H. F. Stevance; S. J. Smartt; K. C. Chambers; T.-W. Chen; R. Fender; A. Andersson; A. J. Cooper; P. G. Jonker; F. J. Cowie; T. de Boer; N. Erasmus; M. D. Fulton; H. Gao; J. Herman; C.-C. Lin; T. Lowe; E. A. Magnier; H.-Y. Miao; P. Minguez; T. Moore; C.-C. Ngeow; M. Nicholl; Y.-C. Pan; G. Pignata; A. Rest; X. Sheng; I. A. Smith; K. W. Smith; J. L. Tonry; R. J. Wainscoat; J. Weston; S. Yang; D. R. Young