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Transient Astrophysics Probe: White PaperThe Transient Astrophysics Probe (TAP) is a wide-field multi-wavelength transient mission proposed for flight starting in the late 2020s. The mission instruments include unique ``Lobster-eye'' imaging soft X-ray optics that allow an approximately 1600-degrees-squared Field of View (FoV); a high sensitivity, 1-degree-squared FoV soft X-ray telescope; a 1-degree-squared FoV Infrared telescope with bandpass 0.6 to 3 microns; and a set of 8 NaI gamma-ray detectors. TAP's most exciting capability will be the observation of tens per year of X-ray and Infrared counterparts of gravitational waves (GWs) involving stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ) / Virgo / KAGRA (Kamioka (Japan) Gravitational Wave Detector) / LIGO-India, and possibly several per year X-ray counterparts of GWs from supermassive black holes, detected by LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) and Pulsar Timing Arrays. TAP will also discover hundreds of X-ray transients related to compact objects, including tidal disruption events, supernova shock breakouts, and Gamma-Ray Bursts from the epoch of reionization.
Document ID
20190027711
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Other
Authors
Camp, Jordan (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Abel, Josh (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Barthelmy, Scott (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bautz, Mark (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Behar, Ehud (Technion - Israel Inst. of Tech. Haifa, Israel)
Berger, Edo (Harvard Univ. Cambridge, MA, United States)
Spolaor, Sarah (West Virginia Univ. Morgantown, WV, United States)
Cenko, S. Brad (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Cornish, Neil (Montana State Univ. Bozeman, MT, United States)
Dal Canton, Tito (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) Hanover, Germany)
Fryer, Chris (Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM, United States)
Gezari, Suvi (Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Gorenstein, Paul (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, MA, United States)
Guiriec, Sylvain (George Washington Univ. Washington, DC, United States)
Hartmann, Dieter (Clemson Univ. SC, United States)
Kalogera, Vicky (Northwestern University Evanston, IL, United States)
Kouveliotou, Chryssa (George Washington Univ. Washington, DC, United States)
Kruk, Jeffrey (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Kutyrev, Alexander (Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Margutti, Raffaella (Northwestern University Evanston, IL, United States)
Marshall, Francis (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Metzger, Brian (Columbia Univ. New York, NY, United States)
Miller, Cole (Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Noble, Scott (Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Perkins, Jeremy (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Ptak, Andrew (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Purcell, Bill (Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. Lanham, MD, United States)
Racusin, Judith (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Schlieder, Josh (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Schittman, Jeremy (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Sesana, Alberto (University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Shawhan, Peter (Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Singer, Leo (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Van der Horst, Alex (George Washington Univ. Washington, DC, United States)
Willingale, Richard (University of Leicester Leicester, United Kingdom)
Wood, Kent (Naval Research Lab. Washington, DC, United States)
Zhang, William (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
July 24, 2019
Publication Date
January 1, 2019
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN70871
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Technical Review
NASA Peer Committee

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