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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
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
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 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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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
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 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
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
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 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
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…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2018-12-12
Anna L. Watts , Wenfei Yu , Juri Poutanen , Shu Zhang , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Slavko Bogdanov , Long Ji , Alessandro Patruno , Thomas E. Riley , Pavel Bakala , Altan Baykal , Federico Bernardini , Ignazio Bombaci , Edward Brown , Yuri Cavecchi , Deepto Chakrabarty , Jérôme Chenevez , Nathalie Degenaar , Melania Del Santo , Tiziana Di Salvo , Victor Doroshenko , Maurizio Falanga , Robert D. Ferdman , Marco Feroci , Angelo F. Gambino , MingYu Ge , Svenja K. Greif , Sebastien Guillot , Can Gungor , Dieter H. Hartmann , Kai Hebeler , Alexander Heger , Jeroen Homan , Rosario Iaria , Jean in 't Zand , Oleg Kargaltsev , Aleksi Kurkela , Xiaoyu Lai , Ang Li , XiangDong Li , Zhaosheng Li , Manuel Linares , FangJun Lu , Simin Mahmoodifar , Mariano Méndez , M. Coleman Miller , Sharon Morsink , Joonas Nättilä , Andrea Possenti , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , JinLu Qu , Alessandro Riggio , Tuomo Salmi , Andrea Sanna , Andrea Santangelo , Hendrik Schatz , Achim Schwenk , LiMing Song , Eva Šrámková , Benjamin Stappers , Holger Stiele , Tod Strohmayer , Ingo Tews , Laura Tolos , Gabriel Török , David Tsang , Martin Urbanec , Andrea Vacchi , RenXin Xu , Ypeng Xu , Silvia Zane , Guobao Zhang , ShuangNan Zhang , Wenda Zhang , ShiJie Zheng , Xia 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
2024-01-08
V. Karas , K. Klimovicova , D. Lancova , M. Stolc , J. Svoboda , G. Torok , M. Matuszkova , E. Sramkova , R. Sprna , M. Urbanec
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
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
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
This white paper highlights compact object and fundamental physics science opportunities afforded by high-throughput broadband (0.1-60 keV) X-ray polarization observations. X-ray polarimetry gives new observables with geometric information…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2019-04-23
Henric Krawczynski , Giorgio Matt , Adam R. Ingram , Roberto Taverna , Roberto Turolla , Fabian Kislat , C. C. Teddy Cheung , Andrei Bykov , Kuver Sinha , Haocheng Zhang , Jeremy Heyl , Niccolo Bucciantini , Greg Madejski , Tim Kallman , Keith M. Jahoda , Quin Abarr , Matthew G. Baring , Luca Baldini , Mitchell Begelman , Markus Boettcher , Edward Cackett , Ilaria Caiazzo , Paolo Coppi , Enrico Costa , Jason Dexter , Jean-Francois Fortin , Charles Gammie , Jessica A. Gaskin , Dimitrios Giannios , Pranab Ghosh , Alice K. Harding , Dieter H. Hartmann , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Philip Kaaret , Takao Kitaguchi , Luca Latronico , Thomas Maccarone , Alan Marscher , Herman Marshall , Mark McConnell , Jon M. Miller , Stephen L. O'Dell , Feryal Oezel , Takashi Okajima , Mark Pearce , Jeremy Perkins , Brian D. Ramsey , Roger W. Romani , Jeremy D. Schnittman , Carmelo Sgro , Paolo Soffitta , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Toru Tamagawa , John Tomsick , Martin C. Weisskopf , George Younes
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
Thanks to the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), it is now widely recognized that fast X-ray timing can be used to probe strong gravity fields around collapsed objects and constrain the equation of state of dense matter in neutron stars.…
Astrophysics · Physics
2007-05-23
D. Barret , M. van der Klis , G. K. Skinner , R. Staubert , L. Stella
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.…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-09-16
Hong Li , Hua Feng , Jianfeng Ji , Zhi Deng , Li He , Ming Zeng , Tenglin Li , Yinong Liu , Peiyin Heng , Qiong Wu , Dong Han , Yongwei Dong , Fangjun Lu , Shuangnan Zhang
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
2024-11-06
Margarita Hernanz , Marco Feroci , Yuri Evangelista , Aline Meuris , Stéphane Schanne , Gianluigi Zampa , Chris Tenzer , Jörg Bayer , Witold Nowosielski , Malgorzata Michalska , Emrah Kalemci , Müberra Sungur , Søren Brandt , Irfan Kuvvetli , Daniel Alvarez Franco , Alex Carmona , José-Luis Gálvez , Alessandro Patruno , Jean in' t Zand , Frans Zwart , Andrea Santangelo , Enrico Bozzo , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Fangjun Lu , Yupeng Xu , Riccardo Campana , Ettore Del Monte , Francesco Ceraudo , Alessio Nuti , Giovanni Della Casa , Andrea Argan , Gabriele Minervini , Matias Antonelli , Valter Bonvicini , Mirko Boezio , Daniela Cirrincione , Riccardo Munini , Alexandre Rachevski , Andrea Vacchi , Nicola Zampa , Irina Rashevskaya , Francesco Ficorella , Antonino Picciotto , Nicola Zorzi , David Baudin , Florent Bouyjou , Olivier Gevin , Olivier Limousin , Paul Hedderman , Samuel Pliego , Hao Xiong , Rob de la Rie , Phillip Laubert , Gabby Aitink-Kroes , Lucien Kuiper , Piotr Orleanski , Konrad Skup , Denis Tcherniak , Onur Turhan , Ayhan Bozkurt , Ahmet Onat
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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