posted on 2019-01-17, 15:52authored byAlessandra De Rosa, Phil Uttley, Li Jun Gou, Yuan Liu, Cosimo Bambi, Didier Barret, Tomaso Belloni, Emanuele Berti, Stefano Bianchi, Ilaria Caiazzo, Piergiorgio Casella, Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Xin Lin Zhou, Marco Feroci, Valeria Ferrari, Leonardo Gualtieri, Jeremy Heyl, Adam Ingram, Vladimir Karas, Fang Jun Lu, Bin Luo, Giorgio Matt, Sara Motta, Joseph Neilsen, Paolo Pani, Andrea Santangelo, Xin Wen Shu, Jun Feng Wang, Jian-Min Wang, Yong Quan Xue, Yu Peng Xu, Wei Min Yuan, Ye Fei Yuan, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Shu Zhang, Ivan Agudo, Lorenzo Amati, Nils Andersson, Cristina Baglio, Pavel Bakala, Altan Baykal, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Ignazio Bombaci, Niccoló Bucciantini, Fiamma Capitanio, Riccardo Ciolfi, Wei K. Cui, Filippo D’Ammando, Thomas Dauser, Melania Del Santo, Barbara De Marco, Tiziana Di Salvo, Chris Done, Michal Dovčiak, Andrew C. Fabian, Maurizio Falanga, Angelo Francesco Gambino, Bruce Gendre, Victoria Grinberg, Alexander Heger, Jeroen Homan, Rosario Iaria, Jia Chen Jiang, Chi Chuan Jin, Elmar Koerding, Manu Linares, Zhu Liu, Thomas J. Maccarone, Julien Malzac, Antonios Manousakis, Frédéric Marin, Andrea Marinucci, Missagh Mehdipour, Mariano Méndez, Simone Migliari, Cole Miller, Giovanni Miniutti, Emanuele Nardini, Paul T. O’Brien, Julian P. Osborne, Pierre Olivier Petrucci, Andrea Possenti, Alessandro Riggio, Jerome Rodriguez, Andrea Sanna, Li Jing Shao, Malgosia Sobolewska, Eva Sramkova, Abigail L. Stevens, Holger Stiele, Giulia Stratta, Zdenek Stuchlik, Jiri Svoboda, Fabrizio Tamburini, Thomas M. Tauris, Francesco Tombesi, Gabriel Torok, Martin Urbanec, Frederic Vincent, Qing Wen Wu, Feng Yuan, Jean J. M. in’ t Zand
In this paper we describe the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for studies related to accretion flows in the strong field gravity regime around both stellar-mass and supermassive black-holes. eXTP has the unique capability of using advanced “spectral-timing-polarimetry” techniques to analyze the rapid variations with three orthogonal diagnostics of the flow and its geometry, yielding unprecedented insight into the inner accreting regions, the effects of strong field gravity on the material within them and the powerful outflows which are driven by the accretion process. X-spinmeasurements.
Funding
The Italian collaboration acknowledged financial contribution from the
agreement ASI-INAF n.2017-14-H.O. The Chinese team acknowledged the
support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences through the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.
XDA15020100). A. Zdziarski acknowledges the Polish National Science
Centre (Grant No. 2013/10/M/ST9/00729).
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Citation
Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy, 2019, 62 (2) 029504
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and Astronomy
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AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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Science China: Physics
Publisher
Springer Verlag (Germany), Science China Press, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)