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Jan 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21321703g&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #217.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.388
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The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) is a proposed hard X-ray imaging all-sky deep survey mission recommended by the Report of the 2001 Decadal Survey. It is a strong candidate to be the Black Hole Finder Probe, one of the three "Einstein Probes" in the Beyond Einstein Program. In its new more evolved form, the EXIST mission now includes a simplified, but more sensitive, very large area and field of view imaging hard X-ray telescope as well as a 1.1m optical-NIR telescope (0.3-2.5microns) for rapid ( 100sec) followup imaging and spectra and thus prompt redshifts of high-z GRBs. The IRT will also permit identification and galaxy spectra for a significant fraction of the obscured AGNs detected in the EXIST full sky survey.
The primary science objectives for EXIST are to:
1) study the earliest stars, re-ionization, and development of structure in the universe with prompt hard X-ray and prompt followup NIR measurements of GRBs at z >7, 2) constrain the accretion luminosity of the universe by measurements of high luminosity obscured AGN at z 0-2.5, low luminosity AGN at z <0.5 and dormant AGN (from tidal disruption events) at z <0.1, and 3) provide the most sensitive and wide-field measures of the transient universe with X-ray/OIR studies of Blazars, black hole transients and high energy variables with full-sky coverage every 3h, in synergy with GLAST and PanSTARRS, as well as LSST, JWST and other planned facilities. With >10X the area of Swift/BAT and much broader energy band, as well deep NIR coverage with a passively cooled mirror, EXIST greatly surpasses any
previous or proposed mission for wide-field imaging and spectroscopy of GRBs and black holes on all scales.
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