In this paper we present the science potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for studies of strongly magnetized objects. We will focus on the physics and astrophysics of strongly magnetized objects, namely magnetars, accreting X-ray pulsars, and rotation powered pulsars. We also discuss the science potential of eXTP for QED studies. Developed by an international Consortium led by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the eXTP mission is expected to be launched in the mid 2020s.
@article{arxiv.1812.04460,
title = {Physics and astrophysics of strong magnetic field systems with eXTP},
author = {Andrea Santangelo and Silvia Zane and Hua Feng and RenXin Xu and Victor Doroshenko and Enrico Bozzo and Ilaria Caiazzo and Francesco Coti Zelati and Paolo Esposito and Denis González-Caniulef and Jeremy Heyl and Daniela Huppenkothen and Gianluca Israel and ZhaoSheng Li and Lin Lin and Roberto Mignani and Nanda Rea and Mauro Orlandini and Roberto Taverna and Hao Tong and Roberto Turolla and Cristina Baglio and Federico Bernardini and Niccoló Bucciantini and Marco Feroci and Felix Fürst and Ersin Göğüş and Can Güngör and Long Ji and FangJun Lu and Antonios Manousakis and Sandro Mereghetti and Romana Mikusincova and Biswajit Paul and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and George Younes and Andrea Tiengo and YuPeng Xu and Anna Watts and Shu Zhang and Shuang-Nan Zhan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04460},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication on Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. (2019)