Dense matter with eXTP
Abstract
In this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. The tightest statistical constraints on the dense matter equation of state will come from pulse profile modelling of accretion-powered pulsars, burst oscillation sources, and rotation-powered pulsars. Additional constraints will derive from spin measurements, burst spectra, and properties of the accretion flows in the vicinity of the neutron star. Under development by an international Consortium led by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science, the eXTP mission is expected to be launched in the mid 2020s.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1812.04021,
title = {Dense matter with eXTP},
author = {Anna L. Watts and Wenfei Yu and Juri Poutanen and Shu Zhang and Sudip Bhattacharyya and Slavko Bogdanov and Long Ji and Alessandro Patruno and Thomas E. Riley and Pavel Bakala and Altan Baykal and Federico Bernardini and Ignazio Bombaci and Edward Brown and Yuri Cavecchi and Deepto Chakrabarty and Jérôme Chenevez and Nathalie Degenaar and Melania Del Santo and Tiziana Di Salvo and Victor Doroshenko and Maurizio Falanga and Robert D. Ferdman and Marco Feroci and Angelo F. Gambino and MingYu Ge and Svenja K. Greif and Sebastien Guillot and Can Gungor and Dieter H. Hartmann and Kai Hebeler and Alexander Heger and Jeroen Homan and Rosario Iaria and Jean in 't Zand and Oleg Kargaltsev and Aleksi Kurkela and Xiaoyu Lai and Ang Li and XiangDong Li and Zhaosheng Li and Manuel Linares and FangJun Lu and Simin Mahmoodifar and Mariano Méndez and M. Coleman Miller and Sharon Morsink and Joonas Nättilä and Andrea Possenti and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and JinLu Qu and Alessandro Riggio and Tuomo Salmi and Andrea Sanna and Andrea Santangelo and Hendrik Schatz and Achim Schwenk and LiMing Song and Eva Šrámková and Benjamin Stappers and Holger Stiele and Tod Strohmayer and Ingo Tews and Laura Tolos and Gabriel Török and David Tsang and Martin Urbanec and Andrea Vacchi and RenXin Xu and Ypeng Xu and Silvia Zane and Guobao Zhang and ShuangNan Zhang and Wenda Zhang and ShiJie Zheng and Xia Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04021},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication on Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. (2019)