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Observatory science with eXTP

  • Jean J.M. in ’t Zand
  • , Enrico Bozzo
  • , Jin Lu 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, Xue Feng 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, Chi Chuan Jin, Riccardo Ciolfi, Elisa Costantini, Andrew Cumming, Antonino D’Aì, Zi Gao Dai, Filippo D’Ammando, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Nathalie Degenaar, Melania Del Santo, Valerio D’Elia, Tiziana Di Salvo, Gerry Doyle, Maurizio Falanga, Xi Long Fan, Robert D. Ferdman, Marco Feroci, Federico Fraschetti, Duncan K. Galloway, Angelo F. Gambino, Poshak Gandhi, Ming Yu 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, Fang Jun Lu, Alexander A. Lutovinov, Denys Malyshev, Julien Malzac, Antonios Manousakis, Ian McHardy, Missagh Mehdipour, Yun Peng 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 Rodríguez-Gil, Patrizia Romano, Agata Różańska, Takanori Sakamoto, Tuomo Salmi, Ruben Salvaterra, Andrea Sanna, Andrea Santangelo, Tuomas Savolainen, Stéphane Schanne, Hendrik Schatz, Li Jing Shao, Andy Shearer, Steven N. Shore, Ben W. Stappers, Tod E. Strohmayer, Valery F. Suleimanov, Jirí Svoboda, F. K. Thielemann, Francesco Tombesi, Diego F. Torres, Eleonora Torresi, Sara Turriziani, Andrea Vacchi, Stefano Vercellone, Jacco Vink, Jian Min Wang, Jun Feng Wang, Anna L. Watts, Shan Shan Weng, Nevin N. Weinberg, Peter J. Wheatley, Rudy Wijnands, Tyrone E. Woods, Stan E. Woosley, Shao Lin Xiong, Yu Peng Xu, Zhen Yan, George Younes, Wen Fei Yu, Feng Yuan, Luca Zampieri, Silvia Zane, Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Shuang Nan Zhang, Shu Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Michael Zingale
  • SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
  • University of Geneva
  • CAS - Institute of High Energy Physics
  • Nanjing University
  • Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna
  • Via del Politecnico snc
  • National Institute for Astrophysics
  • University of Tübingen
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • CSIC
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • Texas Tech University
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
  • Leiden University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
  • Polytechnic University of Catalonia
  • University of Urbino
  • Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
  • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • CAS - Purple Mountain Observatory
  • Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC)
  • University of Southampton
  • Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier
  • New York University Abu Dhabi
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Middle East Technical University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  • Roma Tre University
  • Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Michigan State University
  • Osservatorio Astrofisico Di Arcetri, Florence
  • University of Cagliari
  • Wayne State University
  • Osservatorio Astronomico Roma
  • Princeton University
  • CAS - Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
  • Dublin City University
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  • Astronomical Observatory of Padua
  • University of Trento
  • McGill University
  • Istanbul University
  • University of Palermo
  • Armagh Observatory
  • International Space Science Institute
  • Hubei University of Education
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of East Anglia
  • University of Arizona
  • Monash University
  • University of the Virgin Islands
  • Open University of Israel
  • Centre d'Etudes de Saclay
  • University of Vienna
  • University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • University of Alberta
  • Eureka Scientific, Inc.
  • University of Barcelona
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Sabanci University
  • George Washington University
  • Institute of Science Tokyo
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Guangxi University
  • University of Trieste
  • Space Research Institute (IKI)
  • Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Peking University
  • University of Groningen
  • Charles University
  • ESAC
  • Université de Strasbourg
  • University of Turku
  • University of Leicester
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • University of Crete
  • Raman Research Institute
  • University of Washington
  • Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser
  • University of La Laguna
  • Aoyama Gakuin University
  • Aalto University
  • University of Galway
  • University of Pisa
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Basel
  • RIKEN
  • University of Udine
  • Xiamen University
  • Nanjing Normal University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Warwick
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • University College London

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Abstract

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 mass X-ray binaries, radio quiet and radio loud active galactic nuclei, tidal disruption events, and gamma-ray bursts. eXTP will be excellently suited to study one common aspect of these objects: their often transient nature. Developed by an international Consortium led by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science, the eXTP mission is expected to be launched in the mid 2020s.

Original languageEnglish
Article number29506
JournalScience China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy
Volume62
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2019

Keywords

  • X-ray binaries
  • X-ray bursts
  • accretion and accretion disks
  • active galactic nuclei
  • cataclysmic binaries
  • flare stars
  • gamma-ray bursts
  • gravitational waves
  • mass loss and stellar winds
  • nuclear astrophysics
  • space research instruments
  • supernova remnants

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