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The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a mission concept developed by a large European collaboration under study by ESA since 2018 and currently one of the three candidate M7 mission for a launch in the late '30s. THESEUS aims at fully exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the Cosmic Dawn and as key phenomena for multi-messenger astrophysics. By providing an unprecedented combination of X-/gamma-ray monitors, on-board IR telescope and spacecraft autonomous fast slewing capabilities, THESEUS will be a wonderful machine for the detection, multi-wavelength characterization and redshift measurement of any kind of GRBs and many classes of X-ray transients, including high-redshift GRBs for cosmology (primordial low-mass/luminosity galaxies, first stars, cosmic re-ionization) and electromagnetic counterparts to sources of gravitational waves. Moreover, THESEUS will enable extreme and fundamental physics through unprecedented breakthrough measurements of GRB prompt and afterglow
emission, as well as the detection and multi-eavelength characterization of many classes of high-energy transients. In all these respects, THESEUS will thus provide an ideal synergy with the very large astronomical facilitiesof the future working in the e.m. (e.g., ELT, CTA, SKA, Athena) and multi-messenger (e.g., Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer, km3NET).
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