Accretion in strong field gravity with eXTP

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, Niccolo; Capitanio, Fiamma; Ciolfi, Riccardo; Cui, Wei; D'Ammando, Filippo; Dauser, Thomas; Del Santo, Melania; De Marco, Barbara; Di Salvo, Tiziana; Done, Chris; Dovciak, Michal; Fabian, Andrew; Falanga, Maurizio; Gambino, Angelo; Gendre, Bruce; Grinberg, Victoria; Heger, Alexander; Homan, Jeroen; Iaria, Rosario; Jiang, JiaChen; Jin, ChiChuan; Koerding, Elmar; Linares, Manu; Liu, Zhu; Maccarone, Thomas; Malzac, Julien; Manousakis, Antonios; Marin, Frederic; Marinucci, Andrea; Mehdipour, Missagh; Mendez, Mariano; Migliari, Simone; Miller, Cole; Miniutti, Giovanni; Nardini, Emanuele; O'Brien, Paul; Osborne, Julian; Petrucci, Pierre; Possenti, Andrea; Riggio, Alessandro; Rodriguez, Jerome; Sanna, Andrea; Shao, LiJing; Sobolewska, Malgosia; Sramkova, Eva; Stevens, Abigail; Stiele, Holger; Stratta, Giulia; Stuchlik, Zdenek; Svoboda, Jiri; Tamburini, Fabrizio; Tauris, Thomas; Tombesi, Francesco; Torok, Gabriel; Urbanec, Martin; Vincent, Frederic; Wu, QingWen; Yuan, Feng; in't Zand, Jean; Zdziarski, Andrzej; Zhou, XinLin

doi:10.1007/s11433-018-9297-0

Accretion in strong field gravity with eXTP

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De Rosa A., Uttley P., Gou L., Liu Y., Bambi C., Barret D., ...More

SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY, vol.62, no.2, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)

Publication Type: Article / Review
Volume: 62 Issue: 2
Publication Date: 2019
Doi Number: 10.1007/s11433-018-9297-0
Journal Name: SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY
Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
Keywords: X-ray, black holes physics, accretion, QUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS, BLACK-HOLE SPIN, X-RAY BINARIES, LENS-THIRRING PRECESSION, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, ULTRA-FAST OUTFLOWS, XMM-NEWTON, IRON K, ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSION, SPECTRAL FEATURES
Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

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 out flows which are driven by the accretion process.