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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
  • Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Nanjing University
  • INAF Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna
  • Via del Politecnico snc
  • INAF National Institute for Astrophysics
  • University of Tübingen
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB)
  • Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research
  • Texas Tech University
  • INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte
  • Leiden University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
  • UPC-Barcelona Tech
  • University of Urbino "Carlo Bo"
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
  • University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Purple Mountain Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • CSIC - Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA)
  • University of Southampton
  • University Paul Sabatier
  • New York University Abu Dhabi
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Middle East Technical University (METU)
  • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
  • University Roma Tre
  • GTC Project
  • INPE
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Michigan State University
  • INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
  • Cagliari State University
  • Wayne State University
  • INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
  • Princeton University
  • Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Dublin City University
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE)
  • INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
  • Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications
  • McGill University
  • INAF-IASF-Palermo
  • INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia
  • Istanbul University Institute of Cardiology
  • 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
  • The Open University of Israel
  • CEA Saclay
  • University of Vienna
  • University of Minnesota
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • University of Alberta
  • Eureka Scientific, Inc.
  • University of Barcelona
  • Radboud University
  • Sabanci University
  • George Washington University
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Prague Astron. Institute
  • Guangxi University
  • University of Trieste
  • Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • N. Copernicus Astronomical Center
  • Tsinghua University
  • University of Groningen
  • INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica
  • Charles University
  • University of Maryland
  • European Space Astronomy Centre
  • Université de Strasbourg
  • University of Turku
  • University of Leicester
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • University of Crete
  • Raman Research Institute
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
  • University of Washington
  • Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
  • Universidad de la Laguna
  • Aoyama Gakuin University
  • Aalto University
  • University of Pisa
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Basel
  • Systems Glycobiology Research Group
  • University of Udine
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
  • Xiamen University
  • Nanjing Normal University
  • MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
  • University of Warwick
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • University College London
  • Stony Brook University

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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
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2019

Keywords

  • 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
  • X-ray binaries
  • X-ray bursts

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