The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission – eXTP: an update on its scientific cases, mission profile and development status

Shuang Nan Zhang*, Andrea Santangelo, Yupeng Xu, Marco Feroci, Margarita Hernanz, Fangjun Lu, Yong Chen, Hua Feng, Kirpal Nandra, Weichun Jiang, Jiri Svoboda, Søren Brandt, Stéphane Schanne, Jean Zand, Malgorzata Michalska, Enrico Bozzo, Emrah Kalemci, Ivan Agudo, Mahdi Ahangarianabhari, Gabby Aitink-KroesGiovanni Ambrosi, Filippo Ambrosino, Zhenghua An, Miguel Angel Perez Torres, Matias Antonelli, Andrea Argan, Viktor Babinec, Luca Baldini, Marco Barbera, Coen van Baren, David Baudin, Jörg Bayer, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Pierluigi Bellutti, Bruna Bertucci, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Xingzi Bi, Mirko Boezio, Valter Bonvicini, Walter Bonvicini, Pol Bordas, Alice Borghese, Giacomo Borghi, Florent Bouyjou, Ayhan Bozkurt, Alessandro Brez, Daniele Brienza, Franck Cadoux, Riccardo Campana, Jiewei Cao, Xuelei Cao, Jorge Casares, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Francesco Ceraudo, Tianxiang Chen, Wen Chen, Can Chen, Yupeng Chen, Xin Chen, Yehai Chen, Jerome Chenevez, Yaodong Cheng, Daniela Cirrincione, Marta Civitani, Min Cong, Francesco Coti Zelati, Weiwei Cui, Tao Cui, Wei Cui, Boyu Dai, Thomas Dauser, Nicolas De Angelis, Barbara De Marco, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Sergio Di Cosimo, Sebastian Diebold, Giuseppe Dilillo, Fei Ding, Roman Dohnal, Zefang Dong, Immacolata Donnarumma, Michal Dovciak, Yuanyuan Du, Lorenzo Ducci, Yuri Evangelista, Qingmei Fan, Yannick Favre, Patrícia Ferrés, Emanuele Fiandrini, Francesco Ficorella, Fabio Fuschino, José Luis Gálvez, Na Gao, Min Gao, Yuqiang Ge, Mingyu Ge, Olivier Gevin, Marco Grassi, Yudong Gu, Quanying Gu, Ju Guan, Manuel Guedel, Xingbo Han, Dawei Han, Huilin He, Junwang He, Paul Hedderman, Jan Willem den Herder, Bin Hong, Ander Hormaetxe, Dongjie Hou, Zexun Hu, Hao Hu, Qingbao Hu, Yu Hu, Yue Huang, Jiangjiang Huang, Qiushi Huang, Jia Huo, Richard Hynek, Kazumi Iwasawa, Lucca Izzo, Long Ji, Shumei Jia, Bowen Jiang, Wei Jiang, Jiechen Jiang, Xiaowei Jiang, Yang Jiao, Ge Jin, Fan Jin, Jordi Jose, Vladimir Karas, Thomas Kennedy, Christian Kirsch, Merlin Kole, Martin Komarek, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Lucien Kuiper, Irfan Kuvvetli, Claudio Labanti, Luca Latronico, Phillip Laubert, Tao Li, Longhui Li, Hong Li, Duo Li, Wei Li, Maoshun Li, Gang Li, Xiaobo Li, Chengkui Li, Bing Li, Haibo Li, Hong Liang, Qiuyan Liao, Jinyuan Liao, Olivier Limousin, Yanjian Lin, Manuel Linares, Rui Liu, Yichen Liu, Zhihao Liu, Hongwei Liu, Xiaojing Liu, Xiaohua Liu, Ugo Lo Cicero, Jens Loehring, Giovanni Lombardi, Maximilian Lorenz, Bing Lu, Leonardo Lucchesi, Tao Luo, Laidan Luo, Jia Ma, Xiang Ma, Daniele Macera, Piero Malcovati, Alberto Manfreda, Josep Maria Paredes, Andrea Marinucci, Adrian Martindale, Norbert Meidinger, Filippo Mele, Vasco Mendes, Bin Meng, Martin Merkl, Aline Meuris, Giovanni Miniutti, Massimo Minuti, Alfredo Morbidini, Gianluca Morgante, Fabio Muleri, Riccardo Munini, Lorenzo Mussolin, Barbara Negri, Jianyin Nie, Petr Novák, Witold Nowosielski, Alessio Nuti, Ahmet Onat, Piotr Orleanski, Leonardo Orsini, Roland Ottensamer, Ge Ou, Luigi Pacciani, Stephane Paltani, Teng Pan, Kai Pan, Giovanni Pareschi, Alessandro Patruno, Giancarlo Pepponi, Emanuele Perinati, Raffaele Piazzolla, Antonino Picciotto, Claudio Piemonte, Michele Pinchera, Samuel Pliego, Juri Poutanen, Liqiang Qi, Fazhi Qi, Pengfei Qiang, Fangjian Qiao, Zheng Qiao, Xiangbiao Qiu, Chengbo Qiu, Jinlu Qu, Alexandre Rachevski, Irina Rashevskaia, Nanda Rea, Marc Ribo, Rob de la Rie, Jerome Rodriguez, Pablo Rodríguez Gil, Gloria Sala, Thomas Schanz, Roberto Serafinelli, Carmelo Sgro, Zhengxiang Shen, Lizhi Sheng, Jingyan Shi, Giorgia Sironi, Konrad Skup, Liming Song, Zeyu Song, Jiangbo Song, Gloria Spandre, Daniele Spiga, Yongquan Su, Liang Sun, Müberra Sungur, Libor Svéda, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Ying Tan, Lian Tao, Denis Tcherniak, Chris Tenzer, Michela Todaro, Laura Tolos, Gabriel Torok, Diego F. Torres, Alessio Trois, Onur Turhan, Phil Uttley, Andrea Vacchi, Enrico Virgilli, Channah Vogel, Dave Walton, Jian Wang, Xianqi Wang, Bo Wang, Langping Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Dianlong Wang, Yusa Wang, Juan Wang, Hao Wang, Ruijie Wang, Ping Wang, Lingjun Wang, Wenshuai Wang, Tian Wang, Haoyu Wang, Zhanshan Wang, Anna L. Watts, Xiangyang Wen, Jörn Wilms, Berend Winter, Xin Wu, Chao Wu, Zhenyu Wu, Qiong Wu, Kaiji Wu, Hao Xiong, Shaolin Xiong, Wei Xu, Zhao Xu, Jingjing Xu, Xiongwei Xu, Jiadai Xue, Yongqing Yan, Xingtao Yan, Xianghui Yang, Yanji Yang, Xiongtao Yang, Sheng Yang, Jiawei Yang, Yingquan Yang, Shuxu Yi, Yonggao Yu, Ke Yu, Ganluigi Zampa, Nicola Zampa, Silvia Zane, Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Long Zhang, Shu Zhang, Wenda Zhang, Xiaoli Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, Fan Zhang, Ziliang Zhang, Dali Zhang, Honglin Zhang, Aimei Zhang, Tong Zhang, Hongmei Zhang, Juan Zhang, Liang Zhang, Yueting Zhang, Li Zhao, Baosheng Zhao, Zijian Zhao, Xiaofan Zhao, Haisheng Zhao, Xiaoyun Zhao, Shijie Zheng, Yupeng Zhou, Xiaohong Zhou, Jiahuan Zhu, Yuxuan Zhu, Cheng Zhu, Zhencai Zhu, Nicola Zorzi, Frans Zwart

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Abstract

The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission (eXTP) is a flagship observatory for X-ray timing, spectroscopy and polarimetry developed by an International Consortium. Thanks to its very large collecting area, good spectral resolution and unprecedented polarimetry capabilities, eXTP will explore the properties of matter and the propagation of light in the most extreme conditions found in the Universe. eXTP will, in addition, be a powerful X-ray observatory. The mission will continuously monitor the X-ray sky, and will enable multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies. The mission is currently in phase B, which will be completed in the middle of 2022.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022
Subtitle of host publicationUltraviolet to Gamma Ray
EditorsJan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510653436
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Montreal, United States
Duration: 17 Jul 202222 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume12181
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMontreal
Period17/07/2222/07/22

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Keywords

  • X-ray polarimetry
  • X-ray timing
  • black hole
  • equation of state
  • extreme density
  • extreme gravity
  • extreme magnetism
  • neutron star

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