Title: | The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission—eXTP |
Authors: | Zhang, ShuangNan Santangelo, Andrea FEROCI, MARCO Xu, YuPeng Lu, FangJun Chen, Yong Feng, Hua Zhang, Shu Brandt, Søren Hernanz, Margarita Baldini, Luca BOZZO , ENRICO CAMPANA, RICCARDO DE ROSA, ALESSANDRA Dong, YongWei EVANGELISTA, YURI Karas, Vladimir Meidinger, Norbert Meuris, Aline Nandra, Kirpal Pan, Teng PARESCHI, Giovanni Orleanski, Piotr Huang, QiuShi Schanne, Stephane SIRONI, GIORGIA SPIGA, Daniele Svoboda, Jiri TAGLIAFERRI, Gianpiero Tenzer, Christoph Vacchi, Andrea Zane, Silvia Walton, Dave Wang, ZhanShan Winter, Berend Wu, Xin in't Zand, Jean J. M. Ahangarianabhari, Mahdi Ambrosi, Giovanni AMBROSINO, Filippo Barbera, Marco BASSO, Stefano Bayer, Jörg Bellazzini, Ronaldo BELLUTTI, Pierluigi Bertucci, Bruna Bertuccio, Giuseppe Borghi, Giacomo Cao, XueLei Cadoux, Franck CERAUDO, FRANCESCO Chen, TianXiang Chen, YuPeng Chevenez, Jerome CIVITANI, Marta Maria Cui, Wei Cui, WeiWei Dauser, Thomas DEL MONTE, Ettore DI COSIMO, SERGIO Diebold, Sebastian Doroshenko, Victor Dovciak, Michal Du, YuanYuan Ducci, Lorenzo Fan, QingMei Favre, Yannick FUSCHINO, FABIO Gálvez, José Luis Gao, Min Ge, MingYu Gevin, Olivier Grassi, Marco Gu, QuanYing Gu, YuDong Han, DaWei Hong, Bin Hu, Wei Ji, Long Jia, ShuMei Jiang, WeiChun Kennedy, Thomas Kreykenbohm, Ingo Kuvvetli, Irfan LABANTI, CLAUDIO Latronico, Luca Li, Gang Li, MaoShun Li, Xian Li, Wei Li, ZhengWei Limousin, Olivier Liu, HongWei Liu, XiaoJing Lu, Bo Luo, Tao Macera, Daniele Malcovati, Piero Martindale, Adrian Michalska, Malgorzata Meng, Bin Minuti, Massimo MORBIDINI, Alfredo MULERI, FABIO Paltani, Stephane Perinati, Emanuele Picciotto, Antonino Piemonte, Claudio Qu, JinLu Rachevski, Alexandre Rashevskaya, Irina Rodriguez, Jerome Schanz, Thomas Shen, ZhengXiang Sheng, LiZhi Song, JiangBo Song, LiMing Sgro, Carmelo Sun, Liang Tan, Ying Uttley, Phil Wang, Bo Wang, DianLong Wang, GuoFeng Wang, Juan Wang, LangPing Wang, YuSa Watts, Anna L. Wen, XiangYang Wilms, Jörn Xiong, ShaoLin Yang, JiaWei YANG, SHENG Yang, YanJi Yu, Nian Zhang, WenDa Zampa, Gianluigi Zampa, Nicola Zdziarski, Andrzej A. Zhang, AiMei Zhang, ChengMo Zhang, Fan Zhang, Long Zhang, Tong Zhang, Yi Zhang, XiaoLi Zhang, ZiLiang Zhao, BaoSheng Zheng, ShiJie Zhou, YuPeng Zorzi, Nicola Zwart, J. Frans |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Journal: | SCIENCE CHINA. PHYSICS, MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY |
Number: | 62 |
Issue: | 2 |
First Page: | 29502 |
Abstract: | 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 determining the equation of state of matter at supra-nuclear density, measuring effects of QED, and understanding the dynamics of matter in strong-field gravity. In addition to investigating fundamental physics, eXTP will be a very powerful observatory for astrophysics that will provide observations of unprecedented quality on a variety of galactic and extragalactic objects. In particular, its wide field monitoring capabilities will be highly instrumental to detect the electro-magnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources. The paper provides a detailed description of: (1) the technological and technical aspects, and the expected performance of the instruments of the scientific payload; (2) the elements and functions of the mission, from the spacecraft to the ground segment. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/30599 |
URL: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04020v1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11433-018-9309-2 |
ISSN: | 1674-7348 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11433-018-9309-2 |
Bibcode ADS: | 2019SCPMA..6229502Z |
Fulltext: | open |
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