Prospects for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science with eXTP

arXiv:2506.08368 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2025-09-08 · Read on arXiv

Shu-Xu Yi, Wen Zhao, Ren-Xin Xu, Xue-Feng Wu, Giulia Stratta, Simone Dall'Osso, Yan-Jun Xu, Andrea Santangelo, Silvia Zane, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Hua Feng, Huan Yang, Junjie Mao, Junqiang Ge, Lijing Shao, Mi-Xiang Lan, He Gao, Lin Lin, Ning Jiang, Qingwen Wu, Tong Liu, Yun-Wei Yu, Xiang-Yu Wang, Jin Zhang, Dafne Guetta, Jin-Jun Geng, Di Xiao, Yong-Feng Huang, Yacheng Kang, Tian-Yong Cao, Zhen Zhang, Zhenwei Lyu, Zhen Pan, Yunfeng Chen, Yong Gao, Ang Li, Yu-Cong Fu, Shuo Xiao, Wei-Yang Wang, Fayin Wang, Zhenyin Zhao, Weihua Lei, Rong-Feng Shen, Lixin Dai, Guang-Lei Wu, Liang-Duan Liu, Bing Li, Xilong Fan, Xing-Jiang Zhu, Youjun Lu, Fan Xu, Kangfa Cheng, Da-Bin Lin, Xiao-Hong Zhao, Jun-Jie We, Bin-Bin Zhang, Ji-Rong Mao, Yongquan Xue, Xinwen Shu, Wenjie Zhang, Wei-Li Lin, Achille Fiore, Zhuo Li, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Joseph Fisher, Fei Xie, Ye Li, Sandro Mereghetti, Shao-Lin Xiong, Yu-Han Yang, Eleonora Troja, Zi-Gao Dai, Da-Ming We, En-Wei Liang, J. E. Horvath, G. R. Cunha Sampaio, L. G. Barao, L. M. de Sa

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2025-09-08

Updated: 2026-08-20

Comments: accepted for publication in the SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy

Journal ref: Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 68 (2025) 119506

DOI: 10.1007/s11433-025-2782-2

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• AGN — 41× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Multi-messenger Astronomy — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Abundance — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accretion Flows — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accretion Physics — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Coherence Length — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Einstein Telescope — 2× in this paper
• Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Gravitational Wave Emission — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Inverse Compton (IC) scattering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Silicon Drift Detector — 2× in this paper
• Spectroscopic Focusing Array — 2× in this paper
• Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bulk Viscosity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosmic Explorer — 1× in this paper
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Einstein Probe — 1× in this paper
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Frequency Dependence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hubble Tension — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna — 1× in this paper
• Polarimetry Focusing Array — 1× in this paper
• Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer — 1× in this paper
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• X-1 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer — 1× in this paper
• pulsar timing arrays — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• International Coordination of Multi-Messenger Transient Observations in the 2020s and Beyond: Kavli-IAU White Paper
• The Deep and Transient Universe in the SVOM Era: New Challenges and Opportunities - Scientific prospects of the SVOM mission
• Advanced LIGO
• IceCube-Gen2: The Window to the Extreme Universe
• Cosmic Explorer: The U.S. Contribution to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy beyond LIGO
• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• eXTP -- enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry Mission
• An efficient photoelectric X-ray Polarimeter for the study of Black Holes and Neutron Stars
• A Sealed Gas Pixel Detector for X-ray Astronomy
• The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP
• The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission -- eXTP for launch in 2030
• Dense Matter in Neutron Stars with eXTP
• Probing the Strong Gravity Region of Black Holes with eXTP
• Physics of Strong Magnetism with eXTP
• Observatory Science with eXTP
• Advanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector
• The Next Generation Global Gravitational Wave Observatory: The Science Book
• Do we expect to detect electromagnetic radiation from merging stellar mass black binaries like GW150914? No
• Fast radio bursts and their gamma-ray or radio afterglows as Kerr-Newman black hole binaries
• Mergers of Charged Black Holes: Gravitational Wave Events, Short Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Fast Radio Bursts

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