WFIRST: Enhancing Transient Science and Multi-Messenger Astronomy
by Ryan Foley, Joshua S. Bloom, S. Bradley Cenko, Ryan Chornock, Georgios Dimitriadis, Olivier Doré, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ori D. Fox, Christopher M. Hirata, Saurabh W. Jha, David O. Jones, Mansi Kasliwal, Patrick L. Kelly, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Robert P. Kirshner, Anton M. Koekemoer, Jeffrey W. Kruk, Kaisey S. Mandel, Raffaella Margutti, Vivian Miranda, Samaya Nissanke, Armin Rest, Jason Rhodes, Steven A. Rodney, Benjamin M. Rose, David J. Sand, Daniel M. Scolnic, K. Siellez, Nathan Smith, David N. Spergel, Louis-Gregory Strolger, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Lifan Wang, and Edward J. Wollack
Published onMay 31, 2019
WFIRST: Enhancing Transient Science and Multi-Messenger Astronomy
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Abstract
Ground-based observatories will discover thousands of transients in the optical, but will not provide the NIR photometry and high-resolution imaging of a space-based observatory. WFIRST can fill this gap. With its SN Ia survey, WFIRST will also discover thousands of other transients in the NIR, revealing the physics for these high-energy events.
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