The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite Community Science Book

Michael Koss; Nafisa Aftab; Steven W Allen; Roberta Amato; Hongjun An; Igor Andreoni; Timo Anguita; Riccardo Arcodia; Thomas Ayres; Matteo Bachetti; Maria Cristina Baglio; Arash Bahramian; Marco Balboni; Ranieri D Baldi; Solen Balman; Aya Bamba; Eduardo Banados; Tong Bao; Iacopo Bartalucci; Antara Basu-Zych; Rebeca Batalha; Lorenzo Battistini; Franz Erik Bauer; Andy Beardmore; Werner Becker; Ehud Behar; Andrea Belfiore; Paz Beniamini; Elena Bertola; Vinicius Bessa; Henry Best; Stefano Bianchi; N Biava; Breanna A Binder; Elizabeth L Blanton; Arash Bodaghee; Tamara Bogdanovic; David Bogensberger; A Bonafede; Matteo Bonetti; Pol Bordas; Alice Borghese; Andrea Botteon; Stella Boula; Enrico Bozzo; Marica Branchesi; William Nielsen Brandt; Joel Bregman; Fabrizio Brighenti; Ettore Bronzini; Giulia Brunelli; Marcella Brusa; Esra Bulbul; Kevin Burdge; Alessandro Caccianiga; Michael Calzadilla; Sergio Campana; Milvia Capalbi; Fiamma Capitanio; Nico Cappelluti; Jonathan Carney; Sabrina Casanova; Daniel Castro; S. Bradley Cenko; Joheen Chakraborty; Priyanka Chakraborty; George Chartas; Arka Chatterjee; Prakriti Pal Choudhury; Raven Cilley; Francesca Civano; Andrea Comastri; Thomas Connor; Michael F Corcoran; Lia Corrales; Francesco Coti Zelati; Weiguang Cui; Filippo D'Ammando; Kristen Dage; Tansu Daylan; Sabrina De Grandi; Alessandra De Rosa; Roberto Decarli; Anne Decourchelle; Nathalie Degenaar; Antonino Del Popolo; Alessandro Di Marco; Tiziana Di Salvo; Simone Dichiara; Stephen DiKerby; Steven Dillmann; Neil Doerksen; Paul Draghis; Jeremy J Drake; Lorenzo Ducci; Renato Dupke; Joseph Durbak; Girish M Duvvuri; Hannah Dykaar; Dominique Eckert; Martin Elvis; Catherine Espaillat; Paolo Esposito; Felix Furst; Giuseppina Fabbiano; Joshua Fagin; Abraham Falcone; Elena Fedorova; Adina Feinstein; Jorge Fernandez Fernandez; Gilles Ferrand; Anthony M Flores; N Foo; Nicholas Foo; Adi Foord; Alessia Franchini; Federico Fraschetti; Brenda L Frye; James D Lowenthal; Chris Fryer; Shin-ichiro Fujimoto; Seth Gagnon; Luigi Gallo; Carlos Garcia Diaz; Massimo Gaspari; Fabio Gastaldello; Joseph D Gelfand; Suvi Gezari; Simona Ghizzardi; Simona Giacintucci; A Gill; Roberto Gilli; Myriam Gitti; Margherita Giustini; Andrea Gnarini; Paola Grandi; Arran Gross; Liyi Gu; Sean Gunderson; Hans Moritz Gunther; Daryl Haggard; Kenji Hamaguchi; Jeremy Hare; Kevin C Harrington; Craig Heinke; Sebastian Heinz; Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo; Wynn C. G Ho; Edmund Hodges-Kluck; Jeroen Homan; R Huang; Luca Ighina; Alessandro Ignesti; Matteo Imbrogno; Christopher Irwin; Jimmy Irwin; Nazma Islam; Gian Luca Israel; Wynn Jacobson-Galan; Chetana Jain; Arghajit Jana; Amruta Jaodand; Fred Jennings; Jiachen Jiang; Eric F Jimenez-Andrade; Y Jimenez-Teja; S Johnson; Peter Jonker; Patrick S Kamieneski; Elias Kammoun; Erin Kara; Oleg Kargaltsev; George W King; Demet Kirmizibayrak; Noel Klingler; Albert K. H Kong; Marina Kounkel; Manish Kumar; Alexander Kutyrev; Rebecca Kyer; Fabio La Monaca; Erini Lambrides; Giorgio Lanzuisi; Wonki Lee; Bret Lehmer; Elisa Lentini; Marika Lepore; Jiangtao Li; Carey M Lisse; Daizhong Liu; Tingting Liu; Monica Isla Llave; Nicola Locatelli; Laura A Lopez; Sebastian Lopez; Lorenzo Lovisari; Elisabeta Lusso; Brydyn Mac Intyre; Austin MacMaster; Roberto Maiolino; Jaya Maithil; Chandreyee Maitra; Walid Majid; Daniele Bjorn Malesani; Julie Malewicz; Labani Mallick; Shifra Mandel; Antonios Manousakis; Adam Mantz; Stefano Marchesi; Maxim Markevitch; Tatsuya Matsumoto; James Matthews; Martin G. F Mayer; Giovanni Mazzolari; Chiara Mazzucchelli; Michael McDonald; Eileen T Meyer; Riccardo Middei; Giulia Migliori; Martin Millon; Giovanni Miniutti; Mohammad Mirakhor; Silvano Molendi; Erik B Monson; Alberto Moretti; Christopher Morgan; Kaya Mori; R. Glenn Morris; Sachindra Naik; Preethi Nair; Emanuele Nardini; Yael Naze; Michela Negro; Favio Neira; Chi Yung Ng; Mason Ng; Thong T. Q Nguyen; Scott C Noble; Brendan O'Connor; Ewan O'Sullivan; Matthew O'Dowd; Kwangmin Oh; Laura Olivera-Nieto; Marina Orio; Lidia M Oskinova; Rachel Osten; Fabio Pacucci; Dany Page; Eric Paic; Belen Alcalde Pampliega; Abby Pan; Francesca Panessa; Manali Parvatikar; Massimo Pascale; Dheeraj Pasham; Biswajit Paul; Aaron B Pearlman; Alessandro Peca; Eric S Perlman; Maria Petropoulou; Pierre-Olivier Petrucci; Ryan W Pfeifle; Enrico Piconcelli; Annalisa Pillepich; Ciro Pinto; Tsvi Piran; Andrealuna Pizzetti; Gabriele Ponti; Bettina Posselt; Pragati Pradhan; David A Principe; Marine Prunier; Andrew Ptak; Giovanna Pugliese; Jonathan Quirola-Vasquez; Kamlesh Rajpurohit; Scott W Randall; Chris Reynolds; Mark T Reynolds; Lauren Rhodes; Angelo Ricarte; Claudio Ricci; Roberto Ricci; Fabio Rigamonti; Ketan Rikame; Guido Risaliti; Giacomo Riva; Liliana Rivera Sandoval; Guillermo Andres Rodriguez-Castillo; Daniele Rogantini; Patrizia Romano; Piero Rosati; Mariachiara Rossetti; Barry Rothberg; Alicia Rouco Escorial; Helen Russell; Geoffrey Ryan; Andrea Sacchi; Samar Safi-Harb; Takanori Sakamoto; Chiara Salvaggio; Ruben Salvaterra; Francesco Salvestrini; Isabel Sander; Arnab Sarkar; Manami Sasaki; Gerrit Schellenberger; Eric Schlegel; Jeremy D Schnittman; Emma Schwartzman; Roberto Serafinelli; Alberto Sesana; Paola Severgnini; Rahul Sharma; Yue Shen; Timothy Shimwell; Avi Shporer; Matilde Signorini; Jasbir Singh; Julia Sisk-Reynes; Dominique Sluse; Taweewat Somboonpanyakul; Roberto Soria; Navin Sridhar; Keivan G Stassun; Robert Stein; Nathan Steinle; Daniel Stern; Ceaser Stringfield; Haley Stueber; Yuanyuan Su; Janette Suherli; Nial Tanvir; Antonella Tarana; Yukikatsu Terada; Ira Thorpe; Andrea Tiengo; Francesco Tombesi; Nuria Torres-Alba; Eleonora Torresi; Alessia Tortosa; Lee Townsend; Paolo Tozzi; Cole Treyturik; Anna Trindade Falcao; Eleonora Troja; Naomi Tsuji; Aysegul Tumer; Francesco Ubertosi; Hendrik van Eerten; Reinout van Weeren; Georgios Vasilopoulos; Susanna D Vergani; Georgios Vernardos; Benjamin Vigneron; Amit Vishwas; Fabio Vito; Zorawar Wadiasingh; Stephen Walker; Dominic J Walton; F Wang; Q. Daniel Wang; Kimberly Weaver; Peter J Wheatley; Rudy Wijnands; Dan Wilkins; Brian J Williams; Scott Wolk; Anna Wolter; Ka-Wah Wong; Jooyun Woo; Tyrone Woods; Kinwah Wu; Yerong Xu; Muskan Yadav; Hui Yang; J Yang; Yuhan Yao; Michael Yeung; George Younes; Andrew Young; Mihoko Yukita; Min S Yun; Silvia Zane; Luca Zappacosta; Stephen Zepf; Bing Zhang; Congyao Zhang; Shuo Zhang; Xiying Zhang; Yuexin Zhang; Xiurui Zhao; Xueying Zheng; Dazhi Zhou; Mingyang Zhuang; Fan Zou; John ZuHone

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.00253

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The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite Community Science Book

Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W Allen, Roberta Amato, Hongjun An, Igor Andreoni, Timo Anguita, Riccardo Arcodia, Thomas Ayres, Matteo Bachetti, …

2025-10-31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2511.00253

Abstract

Physics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

Physics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Physics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Physics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Physics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of more than 500 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS), a next-generation X-ray mission selected by NASA's Astrophysics Probe Program for Phase A study. AXIS will advance the legacy of high-angular-resolution X-ray astronomy with ~1.5'' imaging over a wide 24' field of view and an order of magnitude greater collecting area than Chandra in the 0.3-12 keV band. Combining sharp imaging, high throughput, and rapid response capabilities, AXIS will open new windows on virtually every aspect of modern astrophysics, exploring the birth and growth of supermassive black holes, the feedback processes that shape galaxies, the life cycles of stars and exoplanet environments, and the nature of compact stellar remnants, supernova remnants, and explosive transients. This book compiles over 140 community-contributed science cases developed by five Science Working Groups focused on AGN and supermassive black holes, galaxy evolution and feedback, compact objects and supernova remnants, stellar physics and exoplanets, and time-domain and multi-messenger astrophysics. Together, these studies establish the scientific foundation for next-generation X-ray exploration in the 2030s and highlight strong synergies with facilities of the 2030s, such as JWST, Roman, Rubin/LSST, SKA, ALMA, ngVLA, and next-generation gravitational-wave and neutrino networks.

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Title: The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite Community Science Book
Creators: Michael Koss
Nafisa Aftab
Steven W Allen
Roberta Amato
Hongjun An
Igor Andreoni
Timo Anguita
Riccardo Arcodia
Thomas Ayres
Matteo Bachetti
Maria Cristina Baglio
Arash Bahramian
Marco Balboni
Ranieri D Baldi
Solen Balman
Aya Bamba
Eduardo Banados
Tong Bao
Iacopo Bartalucci
Antara Basu-Zych
Rebeca Batalha
Lorenzo Battistini
Franz Erik Bauer
Andy Beardmore
Werner Becker
Ehud Behar
Andrea Belfiore
Paz Beniamini
Elena Bertola
Vinicius Bessa
Henry Best
Stefano Bianchi
N Biava
Breanna A Binder
Elizabeth L Blanton
Arash Bodaghee
Tamara Bogdanovic
David Bogensberger
A Bonafede
Matteo Bonetti
Pol Bordas
Alice Borghese
Andrea Botteon
Stella Boula
Enrico Bozzo
Marica Branchesi
William Nielsen Brandt
Joel Bregman
Fabrizio Brighenti
Ettore Bronzini
Giulia Brunelli
Marcella Brusa
Esra Bulbul
Kevin Burdge
Alessandro Caccianiga
Michael Calzadilla
Sergio Campana
Milvia Capalbi
Fiamma Capitanio
Nico Cappelluti
Jonathan Carney
Sabrina Casanova
Daniel Castro
S. Bradley Cenko
Joheen Chakraborty
Priyanka Chakraborty
George Chartas
Arka Chatterjee
Prakriti Pal Choudhury
Raven Cilley
Francesca Civano
Andrea Comastri
Thomas Connor
Michael F Corcoran
Lia Corrales
Francesco Coti Zelati
Weiguang Cui
Filippo D'Ammando
Kristen Dage
Tansu Daylan
Sabrina De Grandi
Alessandra De Rosa
Roberto Decarli
Anne Decourchelle
Nathalie Degenaar
Antonino Del Popolo
Alessandro Di Marco
Tiziana Di Salvo
Simone Dichiara
Stephen DiKerby
Steven Dillmann
Neil Doerksen
Paul Draghis
Jeremy J Drake
Lorenzo Ducci
Renato Dupke
Joseph Durbak
Girish M Duvvuri
Hannah Dykaar
Dominique Eckert
Martin Elvis
Catherine Espaillat
Paolo Esposito
Felix Furst
Giuseppina Fabbiano
Joshua Fagin
Abraham Falcone
Elena Fedorova
Adina Feinstein
Jorge Fernandez Fernandez
Gilles Ferrand
Anthony M Flores
N Foo
Nicholas Foo
Adi Foord
Alessia Franchini
Federico Fraschetti
Brenda L Frye
James D Lowenthal
Chris Fryer
Shin-ichiro Fujimoto
Seth Gagnon
Luigi Gallo
Carlos Garcia Diaz
Massimo Gaspari
Fabio Gastaldello
Joseph D Gelfand
Suvi Gezari
Simona Ghizzardi
Simona Giacintucci
A Gill
Roberto Gilli
Myriam Gitti
Margherita Giustini
Andrea Gnarini
Paola Grandi
Arran Gross
Liyi Gu
Sean Gunderson
Hans Moritz Gunther
Daryl Haggard
Kenji Hamaguchi
Jeremy Hare
Kevin C Harrington
Craig Heinke
Sebastian Heinz
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo
Wynn C. G Ho
Edmund Hodges-Kluck
Jeroen Homan
R Huang
Luca Ighina
Alessandro Ignesti
Matteo Imbrogno
Christopher Irwin
Jimmy Irwin
Nazma Islam
Gian Luca Israel
Wynn Jacobson-Galan
Chetana Jain
Arghajit Jana
Amruta Jaodand
Fred Jennings
Jiachen Jiang
Eric F Jimenez-Andrade
Y Jimenez-Teja
S Johnson
Peter Jonker
Patrick S Kamieneski
Elias Kammoun
Erin Kara
Oleg Kargaltsev
George W King
Demet Kirmizibayrak
Noel Klingler
Albert K. H Kong
Marina Kounkel
Manish Kumar
Alexander Kutyrev
Rebecca Kyer
Fabio La Monaca
Erini Lambrides
Giorgio Lanzuisi
Wonki Lee
Bret Lehmer
Elisa Lentini
Marika Lepore
Jiangtao Li
Carey M Lisse
Daizhong Liu
Tingting Liu
Monica Isla Llave
Nicola Locatelli
Laura A Lopez
Sebastian Lopez
Lorenzo Lovisari
Elisabeta Lusso
Brydyn Mac Intyre
Austin MacMaster
Roberto Maiolino
Jaya Maithil
Chandreyee Maitra
Walid Majid
Daniele Bjorn Malesani
Julie Malewicz
Labani Mallick
Shifra Mandel
Antonios Manousakis
Adam Mantz
Stefano Marchesi
Maxim Markevitch
Tatsuya Matsumoto
James Matthews
Martin G. F Mayer
Giovanni Mazzolari
Chiara Mazzucchelli
Michael McDonald
Eileen T Meyer
Riccardo Middei
Giulia Migliori
Martin Millon
Giovanni Miniutti
Mohammad Mirakhor
Silvano Molendi
Erik B Monson
Alberto Moretti
Christopher Morgan
Kaya Mori
R. Glenn Morris
Sachindra Naik
Preethi Nair
Emanuele Nardini
Yael Naze
Michela Negro
Favio Neira
Chi Yung Ng
Mason Ng
Thong T. Q Nguyen
Scott C Noble
Brendan O'Connor
Ewan O'Sullivan
Matthew O'Dowd
Kwangmin Oh
Laura Olivera-Nieto
Marina Orio
Lidia M Oskinova
Rachel Osten
Fabio Pacucci
Dany Page
Eric Paic
Belen Alcalde Pampliega
Abby Pan
Francesca Panessa
Manali Parvatikar
Massimo Pascale
Dheeraj Pasham
Biswajit Paul
Aaron B Pearlman
Alessandro Peca
Eric S Perlman
Maria Petropoulou
Pierre-Olivier Petrucci
Ryan W Pfeifle
Enrico Piconcelli
Annalisa Pillepich
Ciro Pinto
Tsvi Piran
Andrealuna Pizzetti
Gabriele Ponti
Bettina Posselt
Pragati Pradhan
David A Principe
Marine Prunier
Andrew Ptak
Giovanna Pugliese
Jonathan Quirola-Vasquez
Kamlesh Rajpurohit
Scott W Randall
Chris Reynolds
Mark T Reynolds
Lauren Rhodes
Angelo Ricarte
Claudio Ricci
Roberto Ricci
Fabio Rigamonti
Ketan Rikame
Guido Risaliti
Giacomo Riva
Liliana Rivera Sandoval
Guillermo Andres Rodriguez-Castillo
Daniele Rogantini
Patrizia Romano
Piero Rosati
Mariachiara Rossetti
Barry Rothberg
Alicia Rouco Escorial
Helen Russell
Geoffrey Ryan
Andrea Sacchi
Samar Safi-Harb
Takanori Sakamoto
Chiara Salvaggio
Ruben Salvaterra
Francesco Salvestrini
Isabel Sander
Arnab Sarkar
Manami Sasaki
Gerrit Schellenberger
Eric Schlegel
Jeremy D Schnittman
Emma Schwartzman
Roberto Serafinelli
Alberto Sesana
Paola Severgnini
Rahul Sharma
Yue Shen
Timothy Shimwell
Avi Shporer
Matilde Signorini
Jasbir Singh
Julia Sisk-Reynes
Dominique Sluse
Taweewat Somboonpanyakul
Roberto Soria
Navin Sridhar
Keivan G Stassun
Robert Stein
Nathan Steinle
Daniel Stern
Ceaser Stringfield
Haley Stueber
Yuanyuan Su
Janette Suherli
Nial Tanvir
Antonella Tarana
Yukikatsu Terada
Ira Thorpe
Andrea Tiengo
Francesco Tombesi
Nuria Torres-Alba
Eleonora Torresi
Alessia Tortosa
Lee Townsend
Paolo Tozzi
Cole Treyturik
Anna Trindade Falcao
Eleonora Troja
Naomi Tsuji
Aysegul Tumer
Francesco Ubertosi
Hendrik van Eerten
Reinout van Weeren
Georgios Vasilopoulos
Susanna D Vergani
Georgios Vernardos
Benjamin Vigneron
Amit Vishwas
Fabio Vito
Zorawar Wadiasingh
Stephen Walker
Dominic J Walton
F Wang
Q. Daniel Wang
Kimberly Weaver
Peter J Wheatley
Rudy Wijnands
Dan Wilkins
Brian J Williams
Scott Wolk
Anna Wolter
Ka-Wah Wong
Jooyun Woo
Tyrone Woods
Kinwah Wu
Yerong Xu
Muskan Yadav
Hui Yang
J Yang
Yuhan Yao
Michael Yeung
George Younes
Andrew Young
Mihoko Yukita
Min S Yun
Silvia Zane
Luca Zappacosta
Stephen Zepf
Bing Zhang
Congyao Zhang
Shuo Zhang
Xiying Zhang
Yuexin Zhang
Xiurui Zhao
Xueying Zheng
Dazhi Zhou
Mingyang Zhuang
Fan Zou
John ZuHone
Academic Unit: College of A&S; A&S - Physics
Language: English
Resource Type: Preprint
Record Identifier: 991032856137802976