The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP
Creators: name: Zhang, ShuangNan
name: Santangelo, Andrea
name: Feroci, Marco
name: Xu, YuPeng
name: Lu, FangJun
name: Chen, Yong
name: Feng, Hua
name: Zhang, Shu
name: Brandt, Søren
name: Hernanz, Margarita
name: Baldini, Luca
name: Bozzo, Enrico
name: Campana, Riccardo
name: De Rosa, Alessandra
name: Dong, YongWei
name: Evangelista, Yuri
name: Karas, Vladimir
name: Meidinger, Norbert
name: Meuris, Aline
name: Nandra, Kirpal
name: Pan, Teng
name: Pareschi, Giovanni
name: Orleanski, Piotr
name: Huang, QiuShi
name: Schanne, Stephane
name: Sironi, Giorgia
name: Spiga, Daniele
name: Svoboda, Jiri
name: Tagliaferri, Gianpiero
name: Tenzer, Christoph
name: Vacchi, Andrea
name: Zane, Silvia
name: Walton, Dave
name: Wang, ZhanShan
name: Winter, Berend
name: Wu, Xin
name: Zand, Jean J. M. in 't
name: Ahangarianabhari, Mahdi
name: Ambrosi, Giovanni
name: Ambrosino, Filippo
name: Barbera, Marco
name: Basso, Stefano
name: Bayer, Jörg
name: Bellazzini, Ronaldo
name: Bellutti, Pierluigi
name: Bertucci, Bruna
name: Bertuccio, Giuseppe
name: Borghi, Giacomo
name: Cao, XueLei
name: Cadoux, Franck
name: Campana, Riccardo
name: Ceraudo, Francesco
name: Chen, TianXiang
name: Chen, YuPeng
name: Chevenez, Jerome
name: Civitani, Marta
name: Cui, Wei
name: Cui, WeiWei
name: Dauser, Thomas
name: Del Monte, Ettore
name: Di Cosimo, Sergio
name: Diebold, Sebastian
name: Doroshenko, Victor
name: Dovciak, Michal
name: Du, YuanYuan
name: Ducci, Lorenzo
name: Fan, QingMei
name: Favre, Yannick
name: Fuschino, Fabio
name: Gálvez, José Luis
name: Gao, Min
name: Ge, MingYu
name: Gevin, Olivier
name: Grassi, Marco
name: Gu, QuanYing
name: Gu, YuDong
name: Han, DaWei
name: Hong, Bin
name: Hu, Wei
name: Ji, Long
name: Jia, ShuMei
name: Jiang, WeiChun
name: Kennedy, Thomas
name: Kreykenbohm, Ingo
name: Kuvvetli, Irfan
name: Labanti, Claudio
name: Latronico, Luca
name: Li, Gang
name: Li, MaoShun
name: Li, Xian
name: Li, Wei
name: Li, ZhengWei
name: Limousin, Olivier
name: Liu, HongWei
name: Liu, XiaoJing
name: Lu, Bo
name: Luo, Tao
name: Macera, Daniele
name: Malcovati, Piero
name: Martindale, Adrian
name: Michalska, Malgorzata
name: Meng, Bin
name: Minuti, Massimo
name: Morbidini, Alfredo
name: Muleri, Fabio
name: Paltani, Stephane
name: Perinati, Emanuele
name: Picciotto, Antonino
name: Piemonte, Claudio
name: Qu, JinLu
name: Rachevski, Alexandre
name: Rashevskaya, Irina
name: Rodriguez, Jerome
name: Schanz, Thomas
name: Shen, ZhengXiang
name: Sheng, LiZhi
name: Song, JiangBo
name: Song, LiMing
name: Sgro, Carmelo
name: Sun, Liang
name: Tan, Ying
name: Uttley, Phil
name: Wang, Juan
name: Wang, LangPing
name: Wang, YuSa
name: Watts, Anna L.
name: Wen, XiangYang
name: Wilms, Jörn
name: Xiong, ShaoLin
name: Yang, JiaWei
name: Yang, Sheng
name: Yang, YanJi
name: Yu, Nian
name: Zhang, WenDa
name: Zampa, Gianluigi
name: Zampa, Nicola
name: Zdziarski, Andrzej A.
name: Zhang, AiMei
name: Zhang, ChengMo
name: Zhang, Fan
name: Zhang, Long
name: Zhang, Tong
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Zhang, XiaoLi
name: Zhang, ZiLiang
name: Zhao, BaoSheng
name: Zheng, ShiJie
name: Zhou, YuPeng
name: Zorzi, Nicola
name: Zwart, J. Frans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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.
description: Accepted for publication on Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. (2019)