Publication date: Feb 2019
Abstract:
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
Authors:
De Rosa, Alessandra; Uttley, Phil; Gou, LiJun; Liu, Yuan; Bambi, Cosimo; Barret, Didier; Belloni, Tomaso; Berti, Emanuele; Bianchi, Stefano; Caiazzo, Ilaria; Casella, Piergiorgio; Feroci, Marco; Ferrari, Valeria; Gualtieri, Leonardo; Heyl, Jeremy; Ingram, Adam; Karas, Vladimir; Lu, FangJun; Luo, Bin; Matt, Giorgio; Motta, Sara; Neilsen, Joseph; Pani, Paolo; Santangelo, Andrea; Shu, XinWen; Wang, JunFeng; Wang, Jian-Min; Xue, YongQuan; Xu, YuPeng; Yuan, WeiMin; Yuan, YeFei; Zhang, Shuang-Nan; Zhang, Shu; Agudo, Ivan; Amati, Lorenzo; Andersson, Nils; Baglio, Cristina; Bakala, Pavel; Baykal, Altan; Bhattacharyya, Sudip; Bombaci, Ignazio; Bucciantini, Niccoló; Capitanio, Fiamma; Ciolfi, Riccardo; Cui, Wei K.; D’Ammando, Filippo; Dauser, Thomas; Del Santo, Melania; De Marco, Barbara; Di Salvo, Tiziana; Done, Chris; Dovčiak, Michal; Fabian, Andrew C.; Falanga, Maurizio; Gambino, Angelo Francesco; Gendre, Bruce; Grinberg, Victoria; Heger, Alexander; Homan, Jeroen; Iaria, Rosario; Jiang, JiaChen; Jin, ChiChuan; Koerding, Elmar; Linares, Manu; Liu, Zhu; Maccarone, Thomas J.; Malzac, Julien; Manousakis, Antonios; Marin, Frédéric; Marinucci, Andrea; Mehdipour, Missagh; Méndez, Mariano; Migliari, Simone; Miller, Cole; Miniutti, Giovanni; Nardini, Emanuele; O’Brien, Paul T.; Osborne, Julian P.; Petrucci, Pierre Olivier; Possenti, Andrea; Riggio, Alessandro; Rodriguez, Jerome; Sanna, Andrea; Shao, LiJing; Sobolewska, Malgosia; Sramkova, Eva; Stevens, Abigail L.; Stiele, Holger; Stratta, Giulia; Stuchlik, Zdenek; Svoboda, Jiri; Tamburini, Fabrizio; Tauris, Thomas M.; Tombesi, Francesco; Torok, Gabriel; Urbanec, Martin; Vincent, Frederic; Wu, QingWen; Yuan, Feng; in’t Zand, Jean J. M.; Zdziarski, Andrzej A.; Zhou, XinLin;