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. TaurisJoern 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

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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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