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Dense matter with eXTPIn this White Paper we present the potential of the Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for determining the nature of dense matter; neutron star cores host an extreme density regime which cannot be replicated in a terrestrial laboratory. The tightest statistical constraints on the dense matter equation of state will come from pulse profile modelling of accretion-powered pulsars, burst oscillation sources, and rotation-powered pulsars. Additional constraints will derive from spin measurements, burst spectra, and properties of the accretion flows in the vicinity of the neutron star. Under development 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.
Document ID
20210013296
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Anna L. Watts
(University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
WenFei Yu
(Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Shanghai, China)
Juri Poutanen
(University of Turku Turku, Finland)
Shu Zhang
(Institute of High Energy Physics Beijing, China)
Sudip Bhattacharyya
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
Slavko Bogdanov
(Columbia University New York, New York, United States)
Long Ji
(Universitätsklinikum Tübingen Tübingen, Germany)
Alessandro Patruno
(Leiden University Leiden, Netherlands)
Thomas E. Riley
(University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
Pavel Bakala
(Silesian University in Opava Opava, Czechia)
Altan Baykal
(Middle East Technical University Ankara, Ankara, Turkey)
Federico Bernardini
(Astronomical Observatory of Rome Rome, Italy)
Ignazio Bombaci
(University of Pisa Pisa, Toscana, Italy)
Edward Brown
(Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, United States)
Yuri Cavecchi
(Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Deepto Chakrabarty
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Jérôme Chenevez
(Technical University of Denmark Kongens Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark)
Nathalie Degenaar
(University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands)
Melania Del Santo
(Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica di Palermo Palermo, Italy)
Tiziana Di Salvo
(University of Palermo Palermo, Italy)
Victor Doroshenko
(Universitätsklinikum Tübingen Tübingen, Germany)
Maurizio Falanga
(International Space Science Institute Bern, Switzerland)
Robert D. Ferdman
(University of East Anglia Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom)
Marco Feroci
(National Institute for Astrophysics Rome, Italy)
Angelo F. Gambino
(University of Palermo Palermo, Italy)
MingYu Ge
(Institute of High Energy Physics Beijing, China)
Svenja K. Greif
(TU Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany)
Sebastien Guillot
(Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Santiago, Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile)
Can Gungor
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, Beijing, China)
Dieter H. Hartmann
(Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina, United States)
Kai Hebeler
(TU Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany)
Alexander Heger
(Monash University Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Jeroen Homan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Rosario Iaria
(University of Palermo Palermo, Italy)
Jean in’t Zand
(Netherlands Institute for Space Research Utrecht, Netherlands)
Oleg Kargaltsev
(George Washington University Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)
Aleksi Kurkela
(European Organization for Nuclear Research Geneva, Switzerland)
XiaoYu Lai
(Hubei University of Education Wuhan, China)
Ang Li
(Xiamen University Amoy, Fujian, China)
XiangDong Li
(Nanjing University Nanjing, China)
ZhaoSheng Li
(Xiangtan University Xiangtan, China)
Manuel Linares
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain)
FangJun Lu
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, Beijing, China)
Simin Mahmoodifar
(Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Maryland, United States)
Mariano Méndez
(University of Groningen Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands)
M. Coleman Miller
(University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland, United States)
Sharon Morsink
(University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Joonas Nättilä
(University of Turku Turku, Finland)
Andrea Possenti
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari Cagliari, Italy)
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
(University of Washington Seattle, Washington, United States)
JinLu Qu
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, Beijing, China)
Alessandro Riggio
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari Cagliari, Italy)
Tuomo Salmi
(University of Turku Turku, Finland)
Andrea Sanna
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari Cagliari, Italy)
Andrea Santangelo
(Universitätsklinikum Tübingen Tübingen, Germany)
Hendrik Schatz
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics East Lansing, Michigan, United States)
Achim Schwenk
(TU Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany)
LiMing Song
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, Beijing, China)
Eva Šrámková
(Silesian University in Opava Opava, Czechia)
Benjamin Stappers
(University of Manchester Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom)
Holger Stiele
(National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu, Taiwan)
Tod Strohmayer
(Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
Ingo Tews
(University of Washington Seattle, Washington, United States)
Laura Tolos
(Institute of Space Sciences Barcelona, Spain)
Gabriel Török
(Silesian University in Opava Opava, Czechia)
David Tsang
(University of Southampton Southampton, United Kingdom)
Martin Urbanec
(Silesian University in Opava Opava, Czechia)
Andrea Vacchi
(University of Udine Udine, Italy)
RenXin Xu
(Peking University Beijing, Beijing, China)
YuPeng Xu
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, Beijing, China)
Silvia Zane
(University College London London, United Kingdom)
GuoBao Zhang
(Yunnan Observatories Kunming, China)
ShuangNan Zhang
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, Beijing, China)
WenDa Zhang
(Astronomical Institute Ondřejov, Czechia)
ShiJie Zheng
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, Beijing, China)
Xia Zhou
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, Beijing, China)
Date Acquired
April 7, 2021
Publication Date
August 20, 2018
Publication Information
Publication: SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy
Publisher: Springer Verlag / Science China Press / Chinese Academy of Sciences / National Natural Science Foundation of China
Volume: 62
Issue Publication Date: January 1, 2019
ISSN: 1674-7348
e-ISSN: 1869-1927
Subject Category
Physics (General)
Astronomy
Funding Number(s)
WBS: 399131
CONTRACT_GRANT: ERC 639217 CSINEUTRONSTAR
CONTRACT_GRANT: EUH 2020 703916
CONTRACT_GRANT: DFG SFB 1245
CONTRACT_GRANT: ERC 307986 STRONGINT
CONTRACT_GRANT: CAS XDA15020100
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