The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP
Abstract
In this paper we present the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP. eXTP is a space science mission designed to study fundamental physics under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. The mission aims at determining the equation of state of matter at supra-nuclear density, measuring effects of QED, and understanding the dynamics of matter in strong-field gravity. In addition to investigating fundamental physics, eXTP will be a very powerful observatory for astrophysics that will provide observations of unprecedented quality on a variety of galactic and extragalactic objects. In particular, its wide field monitoring capabilities will be highly instrumental to detect the electro-magnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources. The paper provides a detailed description of: (1) the technological and technical aspects, and the expected performance of the instruments of the scientific payload; (2) the elements and functions of the mission, from the spacecraft to the ground segment.
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@article{arxiv.1812.04020,
title = {The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP},
author = {ShuangNan Zhang and Andrea Santangelo and Marco Feroci and YuPeng Xu and FangJun Lu and Yong Chen and Hua Feng and Shu Zhang and Søren Brandt and Margarita Hernanz and Luca Baldini and Enrico Bozzo and Riccardo Campana and Alessandra De Rosa and YongWei Dong and Yuri Evangelista and Vladimir Karas and Norbert Meidinger and Aline Meuris and Kirpal Nandra and Teng Pan and Giovanni Pareschi and Piotr Orleanski and QiuShi Huang and Stephane Schanne and Giorgia Sironi and Daniele Spiga and Jiri Svoboda and Gianpiero Tagliaferri and Christoph Tenzer and Andrea Vacchi and Silvia Zane and Dave Walton and ZhanShan Wang and Berend Winter and Xin Wu and Jean J. M. in 't Zand and Mahdi Ahangarianabhari and Giovanni Ambrosi and Filippo Ambrosino and Marco Barbera and Stefano Basso and Jörg Bayer and Ronaldo Bellazzini and Pierluigi Bellutti and Bruna Bertucci and Giuseppe Bertuccio and Giacomo Borghi and XueLei Cao and Franck Cadoux and Riccardo Campana and Francesco Ceraudo and TianXiang Chen and YuPeng Chen and Jerome Chevenez and Marta Civitani and Wei Cui and WeiWei Cui and Thomas Dauser and Ettore Del Monte and Sergio Di Cosimo and Sebastian Diebold and Victor Doroshenko and Michal Dovciak and YuanYuan Du and Lorenzo Ducci and QingMei Fan and Yannick Favre and Fabio Fuschino and José Luis Gálvez and Min Gao and MingYu Ge and Olivier Gevin and Marco Grassi and QuanYing Gu and YuDong Gu and DaWei Han and Bin Hong and Wei Hu and Long Ji and ShuMei Jia and WeiChun Jiang and Thomas Kennedy and Ingo Kreykenbohm and Irfan Kuvvetli and Claudio Labanti and Luca Latronico and Gang Li and MaoShun Li and Xian Li and Wei Li and ZhengWei Li and Olivier Limousin and HongWei Liu and XiaoJing Liu and Bo Lu and Tao Luo and Daniele Macera and Piero Malcovati and Adrian Martindale and Malgorzata Michalska and Bin Meng and Massimo Minuti and Alfredo Morbidini and Fabio Muleri and Stephane Paltani and Emanuele Perinati and Antonino Picciotto and Claudio Piemonte and JinLu Qu and Alexandre Rachevski and Irina Rashevskaya and Jerome Rodriguez and Thomas Schanz and ZhengXiang Shen and LiZhi Sheng and JiangBo Song and LiMing Song and Carmelo Sgro and Liang Sun and Ying Tan and Phil Uttley and Juan Wang and LangPing Wang and YuSa Wang and Anna L. Watts and XiangYang Wen and Jörn Wilms and ShaoLin Xiong and JiaWei Yang and Sheng Yang and YanJi Yang and Nian Yu and WenDa Zhang and Gianluigi Zampa and Nicola Zampa and Andrzej A. Zdziarski and AiMei Zhang and ChengMo Zhang and Fan Zhang and Long Zhang and Tong Zhang and Yi Zhang and XiaoLi Zhang and ZiLiang Zhang and BaoSheng Zhao and ShiJie Zheng and YuPeng Zhou and Nicola Zorzi and J. Frans Zwart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04020},
year = {2018}
}
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Accepted for publication on Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. (2019)