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In this paper we present the current status of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission, which has been fully approved for launch in 2030. eXTP is a space science mission designed to study fundamental physics under extreme…
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eXTP is a science mission designed to study the state of matter under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. Primary targets include isolated and binary neutron stars, strong magnetic field systems like magnetars, and…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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In this paper we present the science potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission, in its new configuration, for studies of strongly magnetized compact objects. We discuss the scientific potential of eXTP for…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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Mingyu Ge , Long Ji , Roberto Taverna , Sergey Tsygankov , Yanjun Xu , Andrea Santangelo , Silvia Zane , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Hua Feng , Wei Chen , Quan Cheng , Xian Hou , Matteo Imbrogno , Gian Luca Israel , Ruth Kelly , Ling-Da Kong , Kuan Liu , Alexander Mushtukov , Juri Poutanen , Valery Suleimanov , Lian Tao , Hao Tong , Roberto Turolla , Weihua Wang , Wentao Ye , Qing-Chang Zhao , Nabil Brice , Jinjun Geng , Lin Lin , Wei-Yang Wang , Fei Xie , Shao-Lin Xiong , Shu Zhang , Yucong Fu , Dong Lai , Jian Li , Pan-Ping Li , Xiaobo Li , Xinyu Li , Honghui Liu , Jiren Liu , Jingqiang Peng , Qingcang Shui , Youli Tuo , Hongguang Wang , Wei Wang , Shanshan Weng , Yuan You , Xiaoping Zheng , Xia Zhou
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…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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Andrea Santangelo , Silvia Zane , Hua Feng , RenXin Xu , Victor Doroshenko , Enrico Bozzo , Ilaria Caiazzo , Francesco Coti Zelati , Paolo Esposito , Denis González-Caniulef , Jeremy Heyl , Daniela Huppenkothen , Gianluca Israel , ZhaoSheng Li , Lin Lin , Roberto Mignani , Nanda Rea , Mauro Orlandini , Roberto Taverna , Hao Tong , Roberto Turolla , Cristina Baglio , Federico Bernardini , Niccoló Bucciantini , Marco Feroci , Felix Fürst , Ersin Göğüş , Can Güngör , Long Ji , FangJun Lu , Antonios Manousakis , Sandro Mereghetti , Romana Mikusincova , Biswajit Paul , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , George Younes , Andrea Tiengo , YuPeng Xu , Anna Watts , Shu Zhang , Shuang-Nan Zhan
In this White Paper, we present the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission to constrain the equation of state of dense matter in neutron stars, exploring regimes not directly accessible to terrestrial…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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In this White Paper we present the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for studies related to Observatory Science targets. These include flaring stars, supernova remnants, accreting white dwarfs, low and…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2018-12-12
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In this new era of time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy, various new transients and new phenomena are constantly being discovered thanks to the rapid advances in observations, which provide the excellent opportunity to study the…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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We present the novel capabilities of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission to study the strong gravity region around stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binary systems and supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei.…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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Scheduled for launch in 2030, the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarization (eXTP) telescope is a Chinese space-based mission aimed at studying extreme conditions and phenomena in astrophysics. eXTP will feature three main payloads:…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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Ping Zhou , Jirong Mao , Liang Zhang , Alessandro Patruno , Enrico Bozzo , Yanjun Xu , Andrea Santangelo , Silvia Zane , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Hua Feng , Yuri Cavecchi , Barbara De Marco , Junhui Fan , Xian Hou , Pengfei Jiang , Patrizia Romano , Gloria Sala , Lian Tao , Alexandra Veledina , Jacco Vink , Song Wang , Junxian Wang , Yidi Wang , Shanshan Weng , Qingwen Wu , Fei Xie , Guobao Zhang , Jin Zhang , Zhanhao Zhao , Shijie Zheng , Samuzal Barua , Yue-Hong Chen , Yupeng Chen , Shi-Jiang Chen , Liang Chen , Yongyun Chen , Xin Cheng , Yi-Heng Chi , Lang Cui , Domitilla de Martino , Wei Deng , Lorenzo Ducci , Ruben Farinelli , Fabo Feng , Mingyu Ge , Minfeng Gu , Hengxiao Guo , Dawei Han , Xinke Hu , Yongfeng Huang , Jean in't Zand , Long Ji , Jialai Kang , Yves Kini , Panping Li , Zhaosheng Li , Kuan Liu , Jiren Liu , Jieying Liu , Ming Lyu , Alessio Marino , Alex Markowitz , Mar Mezcua , Matt Middleton , Guobin Mou , C. -Y. Ng , Alessandro Papitto , Zhiyuan Pei , Jingqiang Peng , Juri Poutanen , Qingcang Shui , Scaringi Simone , Yang Su , Ying Tan , Xilu Wang , Pengju Wang , Di Wang , Fayin Wang , Junfeng Wang , Mengye Wang , Yusong Wang , Jiancheng Wu , Hubing Xiao , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaojie Xu , Rui Xue , Zhen Yan , Ming Yang , Chuyuan Yang , Wenxin Yang , Wentao Ye , Zhuoli Yu , Yuhai Yuan , Xiao Zhang , Lixia Zhang , Shujie Zhao , Qingchang Zhao , Yonggang Zheng , Wei Zheng , Wenwen Zuo
The Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission is a space mission to be launched in the late 2020s that is currently in development led by China in international collaboration with European partners. Here we provide a progress…
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The eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China National Space Administration (CNSA) currently performing an extended phase A study and proposed for a launch by…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-08-15
M. Hernanz , S. Brandt , M. Feroci , P. Orleanski , A. Santangelo , S. Schanne , Xin Wu , J. in't Zand , S. N. Zhang , Y. P. Xu , E. Bozzo , Y. Evangelista , J. L. Gálvez , C. Tenzer , F. Zwart , F. J. Lu , S. Zhang , T. X. Chen , F. Ambrosino , A. Argan , E. Del Monte , C. Budtz-Jørgensen , N. Lund , P. Olsen , C. Mansanet , R. Campana , F. Fuschino , C. Labanti , A. Rachevski , A. Vacchi , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , I. Rashevskaya , P. Bellutti , G. Borghi , F. Ficorella , A. Picciotto , N. Zorzi , O. Limousin , A. Meuris
The eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China National Space Administration (CNSA) currently performing an extended phase A study and proposed for a launch by…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-07-31
Marco Feroci , Mahdi Ahangarianabhari , Giovanni Ambrosi , Filippo Ambrosino , Andrea Argan , Marco Barbera , Joerg Bayer , Pierluigi Bellutti , Bruna Bertucci , Giuseppe Bertuccio , Giacomo Borghi , Enrico Bozzo , Franck Cadoux , Riccardo Campana , Francesco Ceraudo , Tianxiang Chen , Daniela Cirrincione , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Sergio Di Cosimo , Sebastian Diebold , Yuri Evangelista , Qingmei Fan , Yannick Favre , Francesco Ficorella , Fabio Fuschino , Olivier Gevin , Marco Grassi , Bin Hong , Hanqi Mao , Vladimir Karas , Tom Kennedy , Claudio Labanti , Olivier Limousin , Ugo Lo Cicero , Fang-Jun Lu , Tao Luo , Piero Malcovati , Adrian Martindale , Aline Meuris , Malgorzata Michalska , Alfredo Morbidini , Fabio Muleri , Piotr Orleanski , Stephane Paltani , Teng Pan , Emanuele Perinati , Antonino Picciotto , Martin Pohl , Irina Rashevskaia , Andrea Santangelo , Stephane Schanne , Konrad Skup , Jiri Svoboda , Chris Tenzer , Andrea Vacchi , Dave Walton , Berend Winter , Xin Wu , Yupeng Xu , Ganluigi Zampa , Nicola Zampa , Silvia Zane , Andrzej Zdziarski , Long Zhang , Shu Zhang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Wenda Zhang , Xiaoli Zhang , Yupeng Zhou , Nicola Zorzi
The X-ray Timing and Polarization (XTP) is a mission concept for a future space borne X-ray observatory and is currently selected for early phase study. We present a new design of X-ray polarimeter based on the time projection gas chamber.…
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The Einstein Probe (EP) is an interdisciplinary mission of time-domain and X-ray astronomy. Equipped with a wide-field lobster-eye X-ray focusing imager, EP will discover cosmic X-ray transients and monitor the X-ray variability of known…
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The eXTP mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), with a large involvement of Europe. Its scientific payload includes four instruments: SFA, PFA, LAD and WFM. They offer an unprecedented simultaneous wide-band…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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Since the birth of X-ray Astronomy, spectacular advances have been seen in the imaging, spectroscopic and timing studies of the hot and violent X-ray Universe, and further leaps forward are expected in the future. On the other hand,…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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The X-ray Polarization Probe (XPP) is a second generation X-ray polarimeter following up on the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The XPP will offer true broadband polarimetery over the wide 0.2-60 keV bandpass in addition to…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-07-25
Keith Jahoda , Henric Krawczynski , Fabian Kislat , Herman Marshall , Takashi Okajima , Ivan Agudo , Lorella Angelini , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Matthew Baring , Wayne Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Niccolo Bucciantini , Ilaria Caiazzo , Fiamma Capitanio , Paolo Coppi , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Jason Dexter , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolo Di Lalla , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Felix Fuerst , Alan Garner , Pranab Ghosh , Denis Gonzalez-Caniulef , Victoria Grinberg , Shuichi Gunji , Dieter Hartman , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Joanne Hill , Adam Ingram , Wataru Buz Iwakiri , Svetlana Jorstad , Phil Kaaret , Timothy Kallman , Vladimir Karas , Ildar Khabibullin , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeff Kolodziejczak , Chryssa Kouveliotou , Yannis Liodakis , Thomas Maccarone , Alberto Manfreda , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Craig Markwardt , Alan Marscher , Giorgio Matt , Mark McConnell , Jon Miller , Ikuyuki Mitsubishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Alexander Mushtukov , Stephen Ng , Michael Nowak , Steve O'Dell , Alessandro Papitto , Dheeraj Pasham , Mark Pearce , Lawrence Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce Rollins , Vahe Petrosian , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Simonetta Puccetti , Tuomo Salmi , Kevin Shi , Paolo Soffita , Gloria Spandre , Jack Steiner , Tod Strohmayer , Valery Suleimanov , Jiri Svoboda , Jean Swank , Toru Tamagawa , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Roberto Taverna , John Tomsick , Alessio Trois , Sergey Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Joern Wilms , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , George Younes , Alessandra Zaino , Anna Zajczyk , Silvia Zane , Andrzej Zdziarski , Haocheng Zhang , Wenda Zhang , Ping Zhou
Some tests of fundamental physics - the equation of state at supra-nuclear densities, the metric in strong gravity, the effect of magnetic fields above the quantum critical value - can only be measured using compact astrophysical objects:…
X-ray polarimetry, sometimes alone, and sometimes coupled to spectral and temporal variability measurements and to imaging, allows a wealth of physical phenomena in astrophysics to be studied. X-ray polarimetry investigates the acceleration…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2016-08-11
Paolo Soffitta , Xavier Barcons , Ronaldo Bellazzini , João Braga , Enrico Costa , George W. Fraser , Szymon Gburek , Juhani Huovelin , Giorgio Matt , Mark Pearce , Juri Poutanen , Victor Reglero , Andrea Santangelo , Rashid A. Sunyaev , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Martin Weisskopf , Roberto Aloisio , Elena Amato , Primo Attiná , Magnus Axelsson , Luca Baldini , Stefano Basso , Stefano Bianchi , Pasquale Blasi , Johan Bregeon , Alessandro Brez , Niccoló Bucciantini , Luciano Burderi , Vadim Burwitz , Piergiorgio Casella , Eugene Churazov , Marta Civitani , Stefano Covino , Rui Miguel Curado da Silva , Giancarlo Cusumano , Mauro Dadina , Flavio D'Amico , Alessandra De Rosa , Sergio Di Cosimo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Tiziana Di Salvo , Michal Dovciak , Ronald Elsner , Chris J. Eyles , Andrew C. Fabian , Sergio Fabiani , Hua Feng , Salvatore Giarrusso , René W. Goosmann , Paola Grandi , Nicolas Grosso , Gianluca Israel , Miranda Jackson , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Michael Kuss , Dong Lai , Giovanni La Rosa , Josefin Larsson , Stefan Larsson , Luca Latronico , Antonio Maggio , Jorge Maia , Frédéric Marin , Marco Maria Massai , Teresa Mineo , Massimo Minuti , Elena Moretti , Fabio Muleri , Stephen L. O'Dell , Giovanni Pareschi , Giovanni Peres , Melissa Pesce , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Michele Pinchera , Delphine Porquet , Brian Ramsey , Nanda Rea , Fabio Reale , Juana Maria Rodrigo , Agata Różańska , Alda Rubini , Pawel Rudawy , Felix Ryde , Marco Salvati , Valdivino Alexandre de Santiago Júnior , Sergey Sazonov , Carmelo Sgró , Eric Silver , Gloria Spandre , Daniele Spiga , Luigi Stella , Toru Tamagawa , Francesco Tamborra , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Teresa Teixeira Dias , Matthew van Adelsberg , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane
The hard X-ray emission from magnetars and other isolated neutron stars remains under-explored. An instrument with higher sensitivity to hard X-rays is critical to understanding the physics of neutron star magnetospheres and also the…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2023-11-09
J. A. J. Alford , G. A. Younes , Z. Wadiasingh , M. Abdelmaguid , H. An , M. Bachetti , M. Baring , A. Beloborodov , A. Y. Chen , T. Enoto , J. A. García , J. D. Gelfand , E. V. Gotthelf , A. Harding , C. -P. Hu , A. D. Jaodand , V. Kaspi , C. Kim , C. Kouveliotou , L. Kuiper , K. Mori , M. Nynka , J. Park , D. Stern , J. Valverde , D. Walton