Stellar feedback and galactic ecology with the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS)
High-angular resolution X-ray observations provide an important view of stellar feedback processes, probing the energetics of stellar winds and supernovae in massive star clusters as well as allowing direct imaging of the hot gas that drives superwinds. This presentation will discuss the future of these studies that will be enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS), a NASA probe-class concept currently in Phase A study. AXIS provides high-angular resolution (1.5-2.0" half-power diameter) across a large 24 arcminute field of view with an effective collecting area 5-10x that of Chandra. In addition to the stellar-feedback work included in the PI-led science program, I will highlight the possibilities enabled by the large General Observer component of this program.
