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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
2025-09-19
Ang Li , Anna L. Watts , Guobao Zhang , Sebastien Guillot , Yanjun Xu , Andrea Santangelo , Silvia Zane , Hua Feng , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Mingyu Ge , Liqiang Qi , Tuomo Salmi , Bas Dorsman , Zhiqiang Miao , Zhonghao Tu , Yuri Cavecchi , Xia Zhou , Xiaoping Zheng , Weihua Wang , Quan Cheng , Xuezhi Liu , Yining Wei , Wei Wang , Yujing Xu , Shanshan Weng , Weiwei Zhu , Zhaosheng Li , Lijing Shao , Youli Tuo , Akira Dohi , Ming Lyu , Peng Liu , Jianping Yuan , Mingyang Wang , Wenda Zhang , Zexi Li , Lian Tao , Liang Zhang , Hong Shen , Constança Providência , Laura Tolos , Alessandro Patruno , Li Li , Guozhu Liu , Kai Zhou , Lie-Wen Chen , Yizhong Fan , Toshitaka Kajino , Dong Lai , Xiangdong Li , Jie Meng , Xiaodong Tang , Zhigang Xiao , Shaolin Xiong , Renxin Xu , Shan-Gui Zhou , David R. Ballantyne , G. Fiorella Burgio , Jérôme Chenevez , Devarshi Choudhury , Anthea F. Fantina , Duncan K. Galloway , Francesca Gulminelli , Kai Hebeler , Mariska Hoogkamer , Jorge E. Horvath , Yves Kini , Aleksi Kurkela , Manuel Linares , Jérôme Margueron , Melissa Mendes , Micaela Oertel , Alessandro Papitto , Juri Poutanen , Nanda Rea , Achim Schwenk , Xin-Ying Song , Isak Svensson , David Tsang , Aleksi Vuorinen , Nils Andersson , M. Coleman Miller , Luciano Rezzolla , Jirina R. Stone , Anthony W. Thomas
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
2020-03-17
S. N. Zhang , M. Feroci , A. Santangelo , Y. W. Dong , H. Feng , F. J. Lu , K. Nandra , Z. S. Wang , S. Zhang , E. Bozzo , S. Brandt , A. De Rosa , L. J. Gou , M. Hernanz , M. van der Klis , X. D. Li , Y. Liu , P. Orleanski , G. Pareschi , M. Pohl , J. Poutanen , J. L. Qu , S. Schanne , L. Stella , P. Uttley , A. Watts , R. X. Xu , W. F. Yu , J. J. M. in 't Zand , S. Zane , L. Alvarez , L. Amati , L. Baldini , C. Bambi , S. Basso , S. Bhattacharyya , R. Bellazzini , T. Belloni , P. Bellutti , S. Bianchi , A. Brez , M. Bursa , V. Burwitz , C. Budtz-Jorgensen , I. Caiazzo , R. Campana , X. L. Cao , P. Casella , C. Y. Chen , L. Chen , T. X. Chen , Y. Chen , Y. Chen , Y. P. Chen , M. Civitani , F. Coti Zelati , W. Cui , W. W. Cui , Z. G. Dai , E. Del Monte , D. De Martino , S. Di Cosimo , S. Diebold , M. Dovciak , I. Donnarumma , V. Doroshenko , P. Esposito , Y. Evangelista , Y. Favre , P. Friedrich , F. Fuschino , J. L. Galvez , Z. L. Gao , M. Y. Ge , O. Gevin , D. Goetz , D. W. Han , J. Heyl , J. Horak , W. Hu , F. Huang , Q. S. Huang , R. Hudec , D. Huppenkothen , G. L. Israel , A. Ingram , V. Karas , D. Karelin , P. A. Jenke , L. Ji , T. Kennedy , S. Korpela , D. Kunneriath , C. Labanti , G. Li , X. Li , Z. S. Li , E. W. Liang , O. Limousin , L. Lin , Z. X. Ling , H. B. Liu , H. W. Liu , Z. Liu , B. Lu , N. Lund , D. Lai , B. Luo , T. Luo , B. Ma , S. Mahmoodifar , M. Marisaldi , A. Martindale , N. Meidinger , Y. P. Men , M. Michalska , R. Mignani , M. Minuti , S. Motta , F. Muleri , J. Neilsen , M. Orlandini , A T. Pan , A. Patruno , E. Perinati , A. Picciotto , C. Piemonte , M. Pinchera , A. Rachevski , M. Rapisarda , N. Rea , E. M. R. Rossi , A. Rubini , G. Sala , X. W. Shu , C. Sgro , Z. X. Shen , P. Soffitta , L. M. Song , G. Spandre , G. Stratta , T. E. Strohmayer , L. Sun , J. Svoboda , G. Tagliaferri , C. Tenzer , H. Tong , R. Taverna , G. Torok , R. Turolla , A. Vacchi , J. Wang , J. X. Wang , D. Walton , K. Wang , J. F. Wang , R. J. Wang , Y. F. Wang , S. S. Weng , J. Wilms , B. Winter , X. Wu , X. F. Wu , S. L. Xiong , Y. P. Xu , Y. Q. Xue , Z. Yan , S. Yang , X. Yang , Y. J. Yang , F. Yuan , W. M. Yuan , Y. F. Yuan , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , A. Zdziarski , C. Zhang , C. L. Zhang , L. Zhang , X. Zhang , Z. Zhang , W. D. Zhang , S. J. Zheng , P. Zhou , X. L. Zhou
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…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-09-09
Shuang-Nan Zhang , Andrea Santangelo , Yupeng Xu , Hua Feng , Fangjun Lu , Yong Chen , Mingyu Ge , Kirpal Nandra , Xin Wu , Marco Feroci , Margarita Hernanz , Congzhan Liu , Huilin He , Yusa Wang , Weichun Jiang , Weiwei Cui , Yanji Yang , Juan Wang , Wei Li , Xiaohua Liu , Bin Meng , Xiangyang Wen , Aimei Zhang , Jia Ma , Maoshun Li , Gang Li , Liqiang Qi , Jianchao Sun , Tao Luo , Hongwei Liu , Xiaojing Liu , Fan Zhang , Laidan Luo , Yuxuan Zhu , Zijian Zhao , Liang Sun , Xiongtao Yang , Qiong Wu , Jiechen Jiang , Haoli Shi , Jiangtao Liu , Yanbing Xu , Sheng Yang , Laiyu Zhang , Dawei Han , Na Gao , Jia Huo , Ziliang Zhang , Hao Wang , Xiaofan Zhao , Weiwei Cui , Juan Wang , Shuo Wang , Zhenjie Li , Ziyu Bao , Yaoguang Liu , Ke Wang , Na Wang , Bo Wang , Langping Wang , Dianlong Wang , Fei Ding , Lizhi Sheng , Pengfei Qiang , Yongqing Yan , Yongan Liu , Zhenyu Wu , Yichen Liu , Hao Chen , Yacong Zhang , Hongbang Liu , Alexander Altmann , Thomas Bechteler , Vadim Burwitz , Carlo Fiorini , Peter Friedrich , Norbert Meidinger , Rafael Strecker , Luca Baldini , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Raffaella Bonino , Andrea Frassà , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Massimo Minuti , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Carmelo Sgrò , Stefano Tugliani , Giovanni Pareschi , Stefano Basso , Giorgia Sironi , Daniele Spiga , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Andrii Tykhonov , Stèphane Paltani , Enrico Bozzo , Christoph Tenzer , Jörg Bayer , Youli Tuo , Honghui Liu , Yonghe Zhang , Zhiming Cai , Huaqiu Liu , Wen Chen , Chunhong Wang , Tao He , Yehai Chen , Chengbo Qiu , Ye Zhang , Jianchao Feng , Xiaofei Zhu , Heng Zhou , Shijie Zheng , Liming Song , Haoli Shi , Jinzhou Wang , Shumei Jia , Zewen Jiang , Xiaobo Li , Haisheng Zhao , Ju Guan , Juan Zhang , Chengkui Li , Yue Huang , Jinyuan Liao , Yuan You , Hongmei Zhang , Wenshuai Wang , Shuang Wang , Ge Ou , Hao Hu , Jingyan Shi , Tao Cui , Xiaowei Jiang , Yaodong Cheng , Haibo Li , Yanjun Xu , Silvia Zane , Cosimo Bambi , Qingcui Bu , Simone Dall'Osso , Alessandra De Rosa , Lijun Gou , Sebastien Guillot , Long Ji , Ang Li , Jirong Mao , Alessandro Patruno , Giulia Stratta , Roberto Taverna , Sergey Tsygankov , Phil Uttley , Anna L. Watts , Xuefeng Wu , Renxin Xu , Shuxu Yi , Guobao Zhang , Liang Zhang , Wen Zhao , Ping Zhou
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…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
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V. Karas , K. Klimovicova , D. Lancova , M. Stolc , J. Svoboda , G. Torok , M. Matuszkova , E. Sramkova , R. Sprna , M. Urbanec
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…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-12-12
ShuangNan Zhang , Andrea Santangelo , Marco Feroci , YuPeng Xu , FangJun Lu , Yong Chen , Hua Feng , Shu Zhang , Søren Brandt , Margarita Hernanz , Luca Baldini , Enrico Bozzo , Riccardo Campana , Alessandra De Rosa , YongWei Dong , Yuri Evangelista , Vladimir Karas , Norbert Meidinger , Aline Meuris , Kirpal Nandra , Teng Pan , Giovanni Pareschi , Piotr Orleanski , QiuShi Huang , Stephane Schanne , Giorgia Sironi , Daniele Spiga , Jiri Svoboda , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Christoph Tenzer , Andrea Vacchi , Silvia Zane , Dave Walton , ZhanShan Wang , Berend Winter , Xin Wu , Jean J. M. in 't Zand , Mahdi Ahangarianabhari , Giovanni Ambrosi , Filippo Ambrosino , Marco Barbera , Stefano Basso , Jörg Bayer , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Pierluigi Bellutti , Bruna Bertucci , Giuseppe Bertuccio , Giacomo Borghi , XueLei Cao , Franck Cadoux , Riccardo Campana , Francesco Ceraudo , TianXiang Chen , YuPeng Chen , Jerome Chevenez , Marta Civitani , Wei Cui , WeiWei Cui , Thomas Dauser , Ettore Del Monte , Sergio Di Cosimo , Sebastian Diebold , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovciak , YuanYuan Du , Lorenzo Ducci , QingMei Fan , Yannick Favre , Fabio Fuschino , José Luis Gálvez , Min Gao , MingYu Ge , Olivier Gevin , Marco Grassi , QuanYing Gu , YuDong Gu , DaWei Han , Bin Hong , Wei Hu , Long Ji , ShuMei Jia , WeiChun Jiang , Thomas Kennedy , Ingo Kreykenbohm , Irfan Kuvvetli , Claudio Labanti , Luca Latronico , Gang Li , MaoShun Li , Xian Li , Wei Li , ZhengWei Li , Olivier Limousin , HongWei Liu , XiaoJing Liu , Bo Lu , Tao Luo , Daniele Macera , Piero Malcovati , Adrian Martindale , Malgorzata Michalska , Bin Meng , Massimo Minuti , Alfredo Morbidini , Fabio Muleri , Stephane Paltani , Emanuele Perinati , Antonino Picciotto , Claudio Piemonte , JinLu Qu , Alexandre Rachevski , Irina Rashevskaya , Jerome Rodriguez , Thomas Schanz , ZhengXiang Shen , LiZhi Sheng , JiangBo Song , LiMing Song , Carmelo Sgro , Liang Sun , Ying Tan , Phil Uttley , Juan Wang , LangPing Wang , YuSa Wang , Anna L. Watts , XiangYang Wen , Jörn Wilms , ShaoLin Xiong , JiaWei Yang , Sheng Yang , YanJi Yang , Nian Yu , WenDa Zhang , Gianluigi Zampa , Nicola Zampa , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , AiMei Zhang , ChengMo Zhang , Fan Zhang , Long Zhang , Tong Zhang , Yi Zhang , XiaoLi Zhang , ZiLiang Zhang , BaoSheng Zhao , ShiJie Zheng , YuPeng Zhou , Nicola Zorzi , J. Frans Zwart
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
Jean J. M. in 't Zand , Enrico Bozzo , Jinlu Qu , Xiang-Dong Li , Lorenzo Amati , Yang Chen , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Stephen A. Drake , Margarita Hernanz , Peter A. Jenke , Thomas J. Maccarone , Simin Mahmoodifar , Domitilla de Martino , Alessandra De Rosa , Elena M. Rossi , Antonia Rowlinson , Gloria Sala , Giulia Stratta , Thomas M. Tauris , Joern Wilms , Xuefeng Wu , Ping Zhou , Iván Agudo , Diego Altamirano , Jean-Luc Atteia , Nils A. Andersson , M. Cristina Baglio , David R. Ballantyne , Altan Baykal , Ehud Behar , Tomaso Belloni , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Stefano Bianchi , Anna Bilous , Pere Blay , João Braga , Søren Brandt , Edward F. Brown , Niccolò Bucciantini , Luciano Burderi , Edward M. Cackett , Riccardo Campana , Sergio Campana , Piergiorgio Casella , Yuri Cavecchi , Frank Chambers , Liang Chen , Yu-Peng Chen , Jérôme Chenevez , Maria Chernyakova , Jin Chichuan , Riccardo Ciolfi , Elisa Costantini , Andrew Cumming , Antonino D'Aı , Zi-Gao Dai , Filippo D'Ammando , Massimiliano De Pasquale , Nathalie Degenaar , Melania Del Santo , Valerio D'Elia , Tiziana Di Salvo , Gerry Doyle , Maurizio Falanga , Xilong Fan , Robert D. Ferdman , Marco Feroci , Federico Fraschetti , Duncan K. Galloway , Angelo F. Gambino , Poshak Gandhi , Mingyu Ge , Bruce Gendre , Ramandeep Gill , Diego Götz , Christian Gouiffès , Paola Grandi , Jonathan Granot , Manuel Güdel , Alexander Heger , Craig O. Heinke , Jeroen Homan , Rosario Iaria , Kazushi Iwasawa , Luca Izzo , Long Ji , Peter G. Jonker , Jordi José , Jelle S. Kaastra , Emrah Kalemci , Oleg Kargaltsev , Nobuyuki Kawai , Laurens Keek , Stefanie Komossa , Ingo Kreykenbohm , Lucien Kuiper , Devaky Kunneriath , Gang Li , En-Wei Liang , Manuel Linares , Francesco Longo , Fangjun Lu , Alexander A. Lutovinov , Denys Malyshev , Julien Malzac , Antonios Manousakis , Ian McHardy , Missagh Mehdipour , Yunpeng Men , Mariano Méndez , Roberto P. Mignani , Romana Mikusincova , M. Coleman Miller , Giovanni Miniutti , Christian Motch , Joonas Nättilä , Emanuele Nardini , Torsten Neubert , Paul T. O'Brien , Mauro Orlandini , Julian P. Osborne , Luigi Pacciani , Stéphane Paltani , Maurizio Paolillo , Iossif E. Papadakis , Biswajit Paul , Alberto Pellizzoni , Uria Peretz , Miguel A. Pérez Torres , Emanuele Perinati , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Pablo Reig , Alessandro Riggio , Jerome Rodriguez , Pablo Rodrıguez-Gil , Patrizia Romano , Agata Różańska , Takanori Sakamoto , Tuomo Salmi , Ruben Salvaterra , Andrea Sanna , Andrea Santangelo , Tuomas Savolainen , Stéphane Schanne , Hendrik Schatz , Lijing Shao , Andy Shearer , Steven N. Shore , Ben W. Stappers , Tod E. Strohmayer , Valery F. Suleimanov , Jirı Svoboda , F. -K. Thielemann , Francesco Tombesi , Diego F. Torres , Eleonora Torresi , Sara Turriziani , Andrea Vacchi , Stefano Vercellone , Jacco Vink , Jian-Min Wang , Junfeng Wang , Anna L. Watts , Shanshan Weng , Nevin N. Weinberg , Peter J. Wheatley , Rudy Wijnands , Tyrone E. Woods , Stan E. Woosley , Shaolin Xiong , Yupeng Xu , Zhen Yan , George Younes , Wenfei Yu , Feng Yuan , Luca Zampieri , Silvia Zane , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Shu Zhang , Shuo Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Michael Zingale
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
2018-12-12
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 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
2025-09-09
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
One very promising technique for measuring the dense matter Equation of State exploits hotspots that form on the neutron star surface due to the pulsar mechanism, accretion streams, or during thermonuclear explosions in the neutron star…
The study of the hard (E>10 keV) energy spectra of X-ray binary pulsars can give a wealth of information on the physical processes that occur close to the neutron star surface. Extreme matter regimes are probed, and precious information on…
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
2025-09-09
Shu-Xu Yi , Wen Zhao , Ren-Xin Xu , Xue-Feng Wu , Giulia Stratta , Simone Dall'Osso , Yan-Jun Xu , Andrea Santangelo , Silvia Zane , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Hua Feng , Huan Yang , Junjie Mao , Junqiang Ge , Lijing Shao , Mi-Xiang Lan , He Gao , Lin Lin , Ning Jiang , Qingwen Wu , Tong Liu , Yun-Wei Yu , Xiang-Yu Wang , Jin Zhang , Dafne Guetta , Jin-Jun Geng , Di Xiao , Yong-Feng Huang , Yacheng Kang , Tian-Yong Cao , Zhen Zhang , Zhenwei Lyu , Zhen Pan , Yunfeng Chen , Yong Gao , Ang Li , Yu-Cong Fu , Shuo Xiao , Wei-Yang Wang , Fayin Wang , Zhenyin Zhao , Weihua Lei , Rong-Feng Shen , Lixin Dai , Guang-Lei Wu , Liang-Duan Liu , Bing Li , Xilong Fan , Xing-Jiang Zhu , Youjun Lu , Fan Xu , Kangfa Cheng , Da-Bin Lin , Xiao-Hong Zhao , Jun-Jie We , Bin-Bin Zhang , Ji-Rong Mao , Yongquan Xue , Xinwen Shu , Wenjie Zhang , Wei-Li Lin , Achille Fiore , Zhuo Li , Antonio Martin-Carrillo , Joseph Fisher , Fei Xie , Ye Li , Sandro Mereghetti , Shao-Lin Xiong , Yu-Han Yang , Eleonora Troja , Zi-Gao Dai , Da-Ming We , En-Wei Liang , J. E. Horvath , G. R. Cunha Sampaio , L. G. Barao , L. M. de Sa
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
2025-09-09
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
We present the set of deep Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray timing observations of the nearby rotation-powered millisecond pulsars PSRs J0437-4715, J0030+0451, J1231-1411, and J2124-3358, selected as targets for…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2019-12-13
Slavko Bogdanov , Sebastien Guillot , Paul S. Ray , Michael T. Wolff , Deepto Chakrabarty , Wynn C. G. Ho , Matthew Kerr , Frederick K. Lamb , Andrea Lommen , Renee M. Ludlam , Reilly Milburn , Sergio Montano , M. Coleman Miller , Michi Baubock , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Ronald A. Remillard , Thomas E. Riley , James F. Steiner , Tod E. Strohmayer , Anna L. Watts , Kent S. Wood , Jesse Zeldes , Teruaki Enoto , Takashi Okajima , James W. Kellogg , Charles Baker , Craig B. Markwardt , Zaven Arzoumanian , Keith C. Gendreau
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
Accreting neutron stars (NSs) represent a unique laboratory for probing the physics of accretion in the presence of strong magnetic fields ($B\gtrsim 10^8$ G). Additionally, the matter inside the NS itself exists in an ultra-dense, cold…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2023-11-09
R. M. Ludlam , C. Malacaria , E. Sokolova-Lapa , F. Fuerst , P. Pradhan , A. W. Shaw , K. Pottschmidt , S. Pike , G. Vasilopoulos , J. Wilms , J. A. García , K. Madsen , D. Stern , C. Maitra , M. Del Santo , D. J. Walton , M. C. Brumback , J. van den Eijnden
One of the primary science goals of the next generation of hard X-ray timing instruments is to determine the equation of state of the matter at supranuclear densities inside neutron stars, by measuring the radius of neutron stars with…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2016-05-04
Anna L. Watts , Nils Andersson , Deepto Chakrabarty , Marco Feroci , Kai Hebeler , Gianluca Israel , Frederick K. Lamb , M. Coleman Miller , Sharon Morsink , Feryal Özel , Alessandro Patruno , Juri Poutanen , Dimitrios Psaltis , Achim Schwenk , Andrew W. Steiner , Luigi Stella , Laura Tolos , Michiel van der Klis
The unknown state of matter at ultra-high density, large proton/neutron number asymmetry, and low temperature is a major long-standing problem in modern physics. Neutron stars provide the only known setting in the Universe where matter in…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2019-03-13
Slavko Bogdanov , Anna L. Watts , Deepto Chakrabarty , Zaven Arzoumanian , Sebastien Guillot , Keith C. Gendreau , Frederick K. Lamb , Thomas Maccarone , M. Coleman Miller , Feryal Ozel , Paul S. Ray , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge
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
2025-09-09
Qingcui Bu , Cosimo Bambi , Lijun Gou , Yanjun Xu , Phil Uttley , Alessandra De Rosa , Andrea Santangelo , Silvia Zane , Hua Feng , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Chichuan Jin , Haiwu Pan , Xinwen Shu , Francesco Ursini , Yanan Wang , Jianfeng Wu , Bei You , Yefei Yuan , Wenda Zhang , Stefano Bianchi , Lixin Dai , Tiziana Di Salvo , Michal Dovciak , Yuan Feng , Hengxiao Guo , Adam Ingram , Jiachen Jiang , Vladimir Karas , Dongyue Li , Honghui Liu , Guglielmo Masteroserio , Giorgio Matt , Sara Motta , Guobin Mou , Abdurakhmon Nosirov , Zhen Pan , Erlin Qiao , Rongfeng Shen , Qingcang Shui , Yujia Song , Jiri Svoboda , Lian Tao , Alexandra Veledina , Zhen Yan , Tong Zhao
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
2019-10-23
Paolo Soffitta , Niccolò Bucciantini , Eugene Churazov , Enrico Costa , Michal Dovciak , Hua Feng , Jeremy Heyl , Adam Ingram , Keith Jahoda , Philip Kaaret , Timothy Kallman , Vladimir Karas , Ildar Khabibullin , Henric Krawczynski , Julien Malzac , Frederic Marin , Herman Marshall , Giorgio Matt , Fabio Muleri , Carole Mundell , Mark Pearce , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Juri Poutanen , Roger Romani , Andrea Santangelo , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Roberto Taverna , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Silvia Zane
We describe the model of surface emission from a rapidly rotating neutron star that is applied to Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray data of millisecond pulsars in order to statistically constrain the neutron star mass-radius…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2019-12-13
Slavko Bogdanov , Frederick K. Lamb , Simin Mahmoodifar , M. Coleman Miller , Sharon M. Morsink , Thomas E. Riley , Tod E. Strohmayer , Anna L. Watts , Alexander J. Dittmann , Deepto Chakrabarty , Sebastien Guillot , Zaven Arzoumanian , Keith C. Gendreau