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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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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
Scheduled to launch in late 2021, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Small Explorer Mission in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The mission will open a new window of investigation - imaging X-ray…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2021-12-22
Martin C. Weisskopf , Paolo Soffitta , Luca Baldini , Brian D. Ramsey , Stephen L. O'Dell , Roger W. Romani , Giorgio Matt , William D. Deininger , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Enrico Costa , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Luca Latronico , Herman L. Marshall , Fabio Muleri , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Allyn Tennant , Niccolo Bucciantini , Michal Dovciak , Frederic Marin , Alan Marscher , Juri Poutanen , Pat Slane , Roberto Turolla , William Kalinowski , Alessandro Di Marco , Sergio Fabiani , Massimo Minuti , Fabio La Monaca , Michele Pinchera , John Rankin , Carmelo Sgro' , Alessio Trois , Fei Xie , Cheryl Alexander , D. Zachery Allen , Fabrizio Amici , Jason Andersen , Angelo Antonelli , Spencer Antoniak , Primo Attina' , Mattia Barbanera , Matteo Bachetti , Randy M. Baggett , Jeff Bladt , Alessandro Brez , Raffaella Bonino , Christopher Boree , Fabio Borotto , Shawn Breeding , Daniele Brienza , H. Kyle Bygott , Ciro Caporale , Claudia Cardelli , Rita Carpentiero , Simone Castellano , Marco Castronuovo , Luca Cavalli , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Marco Ceccanti , Mauro Centrone , Saverio Citraro , Fabio D' Amico , Elisa D'Alba , Laura Di Gesu , Ettore Del Monte , Kurtis L. Dietz , Niccolo' Di Lalla , Giuseppe Di Persio , David Dolan , Immacolata Donnarumma , Yuri Evangelista , Kevin Ferrant , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , MacKenzie Ferrie , Joseph Footdale , Brent Forsyth , Michelle Foster , Benjamin Garelick , Shuichi Gunji , Eli Gurnee , Michael Head , Grant Hibbard , Samantha Johnson , Erik Kelly , Kiranmayee Kilaru , Carlo Lefevre , Shelley Le Roy , Pasqualino Loffredo , Paolo Lorenzi , Leonardo Lucchesi , Tyler Maddox , Guido Magazzu , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Elio Mangraviti , Marco Marengo , Alessandra Marrocchesi , Francesco Massaro , David Mauger , Jeffrey McCracken , Michael McEachen , Rondal Mize , Paolo Mereu , Scott Mitchell , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Alfredo Morbidini , Federico Mosti , Hikmat Nasimi , Barbara Negri , Michela Negro , Toan Nguyen , Isaac Nitschke , Alessio Nuti , Mitch Onizuka , Chiara Oppedisano , Leonardo Orsini , Darren Osborne , Richard Pacheco , Alessandro Paggi , Will Painter , Steven D. Pavelitz , Christina Pentz , Raffaele Piazzolla , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Colin Peterson , Maura Pilia , Alessandro Profeti , Simonetta Puccetti , Jaganathan Ranganathan , Ajay Ratheesh , Lee Reedy , Noah Root , Alda Rubini , Stephanie Ruswick , Javier Sanchez , Paolo Sarra , Francesco Santoli , Emanuele Scalise , Andrea Sciortino , Christopher Schroeder , Tim Seek , Kalie Sosdian , Gloria Spandre , Chet O. Speegle , Toru Tamagawa , Marcello Tardiola , Antonino Tobia , Nicholas E. Thomas , Robert Valerie , Marco Vimercati , Amy L. Walden , Bruce Weddendorf , Jeffrey Wedmore , David Welch , Davide Zanetti , Francesco Zanetti
This paper outlines the scientific goals and observational strategies of the Mini-SiTian array. Mounted at Xinglong Observatory, the Mini-SiTian array consists of three 30 cm telescopes and has been in operation since 2022. The large field…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-04-03
Henggeng Han , Yang Huang , Beichuan Wang , Yongkang Sun , Cunshi Wang , Zhirui Li , Junjie Jin , Ningchen Sun , Kai Xiao , Min He , Hongrui Gu , Zexi Niu , Hong Wu , Jifeng Liu
The great success of the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has given us a new probe to study strong gravitational fields and to measure the physical properties of black holes and neutron stars. Here, we describe a "next-generation" x-ray…
Astrophysics · Physics
2007-05-23
P. Kaaret , J. Grindlay , F. K. Lamb , E. H. Morgan , J. H. Swank , W. Zhang
LOFT, the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing, is a new space mission concept devoted to observations of Galactic and extra-Galactic sources in the X-ray domain with the main goals of probing gravity theory in the very strong field…
X-ray polarization observations of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) provide crucial insights into magnetic field structures and particle acceleration mechanisms. While the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has made significant…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2026-03-24
Kuan Liu , Fei Xie , Ming-Yu Ge , Wei Deng , En-Wei Liang
X-ray Astrophysics, which addresses extreme physics in extreme conditions, is particularly well suited for answering questions related to known physics. Reversely tiny effects, but integrated along sidereal distances, allow to probe…