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X-ray follow-up of extragalactic transients

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arxiv 1903.05287 v1 pith:MW73XJ6T submitted 2019-03-13 astro-ph.HE astro-ph.GA

X-ray follow-up of extragalactic transients

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keywords transientsfollow-upx-rayx-raysextragalacticquestionsaccretionamounts
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Most violent and energetic processes in our universe, including mergers of compact objects, explosions of massive stars and extreme accretion events, produce copious amounts of X-rays. X-ray follow-up is an efficient tool for identifying transients because (1) X-rays can quickly localize transients with large error circles, and (2) X-rays reveal the nature of transients that may not have unique signatures at other wavelengths. In this white paper, we identify key science questions about several extragalactic multi-messenger and multi-wavelength transients, and demonstrate how X-ray follow-up helps answer these questions

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