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1. INTEGRAL reloaded: spacecraft, instruments and ground system

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Kuulkers, Erik, Ferrigno, Carlo, Kretschmar, Peter, Alfonso-Garzon, Julia, Baab, Marius, Bazzano, Angela, Belanger, Guillaume, Benson, Ian, Bird, Anthony J., Bozzo, Enrico, Brandt, Soren, Coe, Elliott, Caballero, Isabel, Cangemi, Floriane, Chenevez, Jerome, Cenko, Bradley, Cinar, Nebil, Coleiro, Alexis, De Padova, Stefano, Diehl, Roland, Dietze, Claudia, Domingo, Albert, Drapes, Mark, D'uva, Eleonora, Ehle, Matthias, Ebrero, Jacobo, Edirimanne, Mithrajith, Eismont, Natan A., Finn, Timothy, Fiocchi, Mariateresa, Tomas, Elena Garcia, Gaudenzi, Gianluca, Godard, Thomas, Goldwurm, Andrea, Gotz, Diego, Gouiffes, Christian, Grebenev, Sergei A., Greiner, Jochen, Gros, Aleksandra, Hanlon, Lorraine, Hermsen, Wim, Hernandez, Cristina, Hernanz, Margarita, Huebner, Jutta, Jourdain, Elisabeth, La Rosa, Giovanni, Labanti, Claudio, Laurent, Philippe, Lehanka, Alexander, Lund, Niels, Madison, James, Malzac, Julien, Martin, Jim, Mas-Hesse, J. Miguel, McBreen, Brian, McDonald, Alastair, McEnery, Julie, Mereghetti, Sandro, Natalucci, Lorenzo, Ness, Jan-Uwe, Oxborrow, Carol Anne, Palmer, John, Peschke, Sibylle, Petrucciani, Francesco, Pfeil, Norbert, Reichenbaecher, Michael, Rodi, James, Rodriguez, Jerome, Roques, Jean-Pierre, Donate, Emilio Salazar, Salt, Dave, Sanchez-Fernandez, Celia, Sauvageon, Aymeric, Savchenko, Volodymyr, Sazonov, Sergey Yu., Scaglioni, Stefano, Schartel, Norbert, Siegert, Thomas, Southworth, Richard, Sunyaev, Rashid A., Toma, Liviu, Ubertini, Pietro, Heuvel, Ed P. J. van den, von Kienlin, Andreas, von Krusenstiern, Nikolai, Winkler, Christoph, Wojciech, Hajdas, and Zannoni, Ugo

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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
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ESA's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) was launched on 17 Oct 2002 at 06:41 CEST. Since then, it has been providing long, uninterrupted observations (up to about 47 hr, or 170 ksec, per satellite orbit of 2.7 days) with a large field-of-view (fully coded: 100 deg^2), msec time resolution, keV energy resolution, polarization measurements, as well as additional coverage in the optical. This is realized by two main instruments in the 15 keV to 10 MeV range, the spectrometer SPI (spectral resolution 3 keV at 1.8 MeV) and the imager IBIS (angular resolution 12 arcmin FWHM), complemented by X-ray (JEM-X; 3-35 keV) and optical (OMC; Johnson V-band) monitors. All instruments are co-aligned to simultaneously observe the target region. A particle radiation monitor (IREM) measures charged particle fluxes near the spacecraft. The Anti-coincidence subsystems of the main instruments are also efficient all-sky gamma-ray detectors, which provide omni-directional monitoring above ~75 keV. INTEGRAL can also rapidly (within a couple of hours) re-point and conduct Target of Opportunity observations. INTEGRAL has build an impressive legacy: e.g. discovery of >600 new high-energy sources; first-ever direct detection of 56Ni and 56Co radio-active decay lines from a Type Ia supernova; new insights on positron annihilation in the Galactic bulge and disk; pioneering gamma-ray polarization studies. INTEGRAL is also a successful in multi-messenger astronomy: INTEGRAL found the first prompt electromagnetic radiation in coincidence with a binary neutron star merger. More than 1750 papers based on INTEGRAL data have been published in refereed journals. Here we give a comprehensive update of the satellite status after more than 18 years of operations in a harsh space environment, and an account of the successful Ground Segment., Comment: 29 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in special issue of New Astronomy Reviews

Published
2021

2. Feasibility of Observing Gamma-ray Polarization from Cygnus X-1 Using a CubeSat

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Yang, Chien-Ying, Chang, Yi-Chi, Liang, Hung-Hsiang, Chu, Che-Yen, Hsiang, Jr-Yue, Chiu, Jeng-Lun, Lin, Chih-Hsun, Laurent, Philippe, Rodriguez, Jerome, and Chang, Hsiang-Kuang

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
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Instruments flown on CubeSats are small. Meaningful applications of CubeSats in astronomical observations rely on the choice of a particular subject that is feasible for CubeSats. Here we report the result of a feasibility study for observing gamma-ray polarization from Cygnus X-1 using a small Compton polarimeter on board a 3U CubeSat. Silicon detectors and cerium bromide scintillators were employed in the instrument models that we discussed in this study. Through Monte Carlo simulations with Geant4-based MEGAlib package, we found that, with a 10-Ms on-axis, zenith-direction observation in a low inclination, low altitude earth orbit radiation background environment, the minimum detectable polarization degree can be down to about 10\% in 160 - 250 keV, 20\% in 250 - 400 keV, and 65\% in 400 - 2000 keV. A 3U CubeSat dedicated to observing Cygnus X-1 can therefore yield useful information on the polarization state of gamma-ray emissions from the brightest persistent X-ray black-hole binary in the sky., Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted on June 11, 2020, for publication in The Astronomical Journal

Published
2019
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3. The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission - eXTP

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

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

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

Published
2018
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4. The On-Site Analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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Bulgarelli, Andrea, Fioretti, Valentina, Zoli, Andrea, Aboudan, Alessio, Rodríguez-Vázquez, Juan José, De Cesare, Giovanni, De Rosa, Adriano, Maier, Gernot, Lyard, Etienne, Bastieri, Denis, Lombardi, Saverio, Tosti, Gino, Bergamaschi, Sonia, Beneventano, Domenico, Lamanna, Giovanni, Jacquemier, Jean, Kosack, Karl, Antonelli, Lucio Angelo, Boisson, Catherine, Borkowski, Jerzy, Buson, Sara, Carosi, Alessandro, Conforti, Vito, Colomé, Pep, Reyes, Raquel de los, Dumm, Jon, Evans, Phil, Fortson, Lucy, Fuessling, Matthias, Gotz, Diego, Graciani, Ricardo, Gianotti, Fulvio, Grandi, Paola, Hinton, Jim, Humensky, Brian, Inoue, Susumu, Knödlseder, Jürgen, Flour, Thierry Le, Lindemann, Rico, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Markoff, Sera, Marisaldi, Martino, Neyroud, Nadine, Nicastro, Luciano, Ohm, Stefan, Osborne, Julian, Oya, Igor, Rodriguez, Jerome, Rosen, Simon, Ribo, Marc, Tacchini, Alessandro, Schüssler, Fabian, Stolarczyk, Thierry, Torresi, Eleonora, Testa, Vincenzo, Wegner, Peter, and Weinstein, Amanda

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be one of the largest ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray observatories. The On-Site Analysis will be the first CTA scientific analysis of data acquired from the array of telescopes, in both northern and southern sites. The On-Site Analysis will have two pipelines: the Level-A pipeline (also known as Real-Time Analysis, RTA) and the level-B one. The RTA performs data quality monitoring and must be able to issue automated alerts on variable and transient astrophysical sources within 30 seconds from the last acquired Cherenkov event that contributes to the alert, with a sensitivity not worse than the one achieved by the final pipeline by more than a factor of 3. The Level-B Analysis has a better sensitivity (not be worse than the final one by a factor of 2) and the results should be available within 10 hours from the acquisition of the data: for this reason this analysis could be performed at the end of an observation or next morning. The latency (in particular for the RTA) and the sensitivity requirements are challenging because of the large data rate, a few GByte/s. The remote connection to the CTA candidate site with a rather limited network bandwidth makes the issue of the exported data size extremely critical and prevents any kind of processing in real-time of the data outside the site of the telescopes. For these reasons the analysis will be performed on-site with infrastructures co-located with the telescopes, with limited electrical power availability and with a reduced possibility of human intervention. This means, for example, that the on-site hardware infrastructure should have low-power consumption. A substantial effort towards the optimization of high-throughput computing service is envisioned to provide hardware and software solutions with high-throughput, low-power consumption at a low-cost., Comment: In Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1508.05894

Published
2015

5. The Hot and Energetic Universe: A White Paper presenting the science theme motivating the Athena+ mission

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Nandra, Kirpal, Barret, Didier, Barcons, Xavier, Fabian, Andy, Herder, Jan-Willem den, Piro, Luigi, Watson, Mike, Adami, Christophe, Aird, James, Afonso, Jose Manuel, Alexander, Dave, Argiroffi, Costanza, Amati, Lorenzo, Arnaud, Monique, Atteia, Jean-Luc, Audard, Marc, Badenes, Carles, Ballet, Jean, Ballo, Lucia, Bamba, Aya, Bhardwaj, Anil, Battistelli, Elia Stefano, Becker, Werner, De Becker, Michaël, Behar, Ehud, Bianchi, Stefano, Biffi, Veronica, Bîrzan, Laura, Bocchino, Fabrizio, Bogdanov, Slavko, Boirin, Laurence, Boller, Thomas, Borgani, Stefano, Borm, Katharina, Bouché, Nicolas, Bourdin, Hervé, Bower, Richard, Braito, Valentina, Branchini, Enzo, Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella, Bregman, Joel, Brenneman, Laura, Brightman, Murray, Brüggen, Marcus, Buchner, Johannes, Bulbul, Esra, Brusa, Marcella, Bursa, Michal, Caccianiga, Alessandro, Cackett, Ed, Campana, Sergio, Cappelluti, Nico, Cappi, Massimo, Carrera, Francisco, Ceballos, Maite, Christensen, Finn, Chu, You-Hua, Churazov, Eugene, Clerc, Nicolas, Corbel, Stephane, Corral, Amalia, Comastri, Andrea, Costantini, Elisa, Croston, Judith, Dadina, Mauro, D'Ai, Antonino, Decourchelle, Anne, Della Ceca, Roberto, Dennerl, Konrad, Dolag, Klaus, Done, Chris, Dovciak, Michal, Drake, Jeremy, Eckert, Dominique, Edge, Alastair, Ettori, Stefano, Ezoe, Yuichiro, Feigelson, Eric, Fender, Rob, Feruglio, Chiara, Finoguenov, Alexis, Fiore, Fabrizio, Galeazzi, Massimiliano, Gallagher, Sarah, Gandhi, Poshak, Gaspari, Massimo, Gastaldello, Fabio, Georgakakis, Antonis, Georgantopoulos, Ioannis, Gilfanov, Marat, Gitti, Myriam, Gladstone, Randy, Goosmann, Rene, Gosset, Eric, Grosso, Nicolas, Guedel, Manuel, Guerrero, Martin, Haberl, Frank, Hardcastle, Martin, Heinz, Sebastian, Herrero, Almudena Alonso, Hervé, Anthony, Holmstrom, Mats, Iwasawa, Kazushi, Jonker, Peter, Kaastra, Jelle, Kara, Erin, Karas, Vladimir, Kastner, Joel, King, Andrew, Kosenko, Daria, Koutroumpa, Dimita, Kraft, Ralph, Kreykenbohm, Ingo, Lallement, Rosine, Lanzuisi, Giorgio, Lee, J., Lemoine-Goumard, Marianne, Lobban, Andrew, Lodato, Giuseppe, Lovisari, Lorenzo, Lotti, Simone, McCharthy, Ian, McNamara, Brian, Maggio, Antonio, Maiolino, Roberto, De Marco, Barbara, de Martino, Domitilla, Mateos, Silvia, Matt, Giorgio, Maughan, Ben, Mazzotta, Pasquale, Mendez, Mariano, Merloni, Andrea, Micela, Giuseppina, Miceli, Marco, Mignani, Robert, Miller, Jon, Miniutti, Giovanni, Molendi, Silvano, Montez, Rodolfo, Moretti, Alberto, Motch, Christian, Nazé, Yaël, Nevalainen, Jukka, Nicastro, Fabrizio, Nulsen, Paul, Ohashi, Takaya, O'Brien, Paul, Osborne, Julian, Oskinova, Lida, Pacaud, Florian, Paerels, Frederik, Page, Mat, Papadakis, Iossif, Pareschi, Giovanni, Petre, Robert, Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier, Piconcelli, Enrico, Pillitteri, Ignazio, Pinto, C., de Plaa, Jelle, Pointecouteau, Etienne, Ponman, Trevor, Ponti, Gabriele, Porquet, Delphine, Pounds, Ken, Pratt, Gabriel, Predehl, Peter, Proga, Daniel, Psaltis, Dimitrios, Rafferty, David, Ramos-Ceja, Miriam, Ranalli, Piero, Rasia, Elena, Rau, Arne, Rauw, Gregor, Rea, Nanda, Read, Andy, Reeves, James, Reiprich, Thomas, Renaud, Matthieu, Reynolds, Chris, Risaliti, Guido, Rodriguez, Jerome, Hidalgo, Paola Rodriguez, Roncarelli, Mauro, Rosario, David, Rossetti, Mariachiara, Rozanska, Agata, Rovilos, Emmanouil, Salvaterra, Ruben, Salvato, Mara, Di Salvo, Tiziana, Sanders, Jeremy, Sanz-Forcada, Jorge, Schawinski, Kevin, Schaye, Joop, Schwope, Axel, Sciortino, Salvatore, Severgnini, Paola, Shankar, Francesco, Sijacki, Debora, Sim, Stuart, Schmid, Christian, Smith, Randall, Steiner, Andrew, Stelzer, Beate, Stewart, Gordon, Strohmayer, Tod, Strüder, Lothar, Sun, Ming, Takei, Yoh, Tatischeff, V., Tiengo, Andreas, Tombesi, Francesco, Trinchieri, Ginevra, Tsuru, T. G., Ud-Doula, Asif, Ursino, Eugenio, Valencic, Lynne, Vanzella, Eros, Vaughan, Simon, Vignali, Cristian, Vink, Jacco, Vito, Fabio, Volonteri, Marta, Wang, Daniel, Webb, Natalie, Willingale, Richard, Wilms, Joern, Wise, Michael, Worrall, Diana, Young, Andrew, Zampieri, Luca, Zand, Jean In't, Zane, Silvia, Zezas, Andreas, Zhang, Yuying, and Zhuravleva, Irina

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract

This White Paper, submitted to the recent ESA call for science themes to define its future large missions, advocates the need for a transformational leap in our understanding of two key questions in astrophysics: 1) How does ordinary matter assemble into the large scale structures that we see today? 2) How do black holes grow and shape the Universe? Hot gas in clusters, groups and the intergalactic medium dominates the baryonic content of the local Universe. To understand the astrophysical processes responsible for the formation and assembly of these large structures, it is necessary to measure their physical properties and evolution. This requires spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy with a factor 10 increase in both telescope throughput and spatial resolving power compared to currently planned facilities. Feedback from supermassive black holes is an essential ingredient in this process and in most galaxy evolution models, but it is not well understood. X-ray observations can uniquely reveal the mechanisms launching winds close to black holes and determine the coupling of the energy and matter flows on larger scales. Due to the effects of feedback, a complete understanding of galaxy evolution requires knowledge of the obscured growth of supermassive black holes through cosmic time, out to the redshifts where the first galaxies form. X-ray emission is the most reliable way to reveal accreting black holes, but deep survey speed must improve by a factor ~100 over current facilities to perform a full census into the early Universe. The Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (Athena+) mission provides the necessary performance (e.g. angular resolution, spectral resolution, survey grasp) to address these questions and revolutionize our understanding of the Hot and Energetic Universe. These capabilities will also provide a powerful observatory to be used in all areas of astrophysics., Comment: Submitted in response to the call for White Papers for the definition of the L2 and L3 missions in the ESA Science program. More information: http://www.the-athena-x-ray-observatory.eu/. 19 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables

Published
2013

6. Future Science Prospects for AMI

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Grainge, Keith, Alexander, Paul, Battye, Richard, Birkinshaw, Mark, Blain, Andrew, Bremer, Malcolm, Bridle, Sarah, Brown, Michael, Davis, Richard, Dickinson, Clive, Edge, Alastair, Efstathiou, George, Fender, Robert, Hardcastle, Martin, Hatchell, Jennifer, Hobson, Michael, Jarvis, Matthew, Maughan, Benjamin, McHardy, Ian, Middleton, Matthew, Lasenby, Anthony, Saunders, Richard, Savini, Giorgio, Scaife, Anna, Smith, Graham, Thompson, Mark, White, Glenn, Zarb-Adami, Kris, Allison, James, Buckle, Jane, Castro-Tirado, Alberto, Chernyakova, Maria, Deane, Roger, Feroz, Farhan, Santos, Ricardo Genova, Green, David, Hannikainen, Diana, Heywood, Ian, Hurley-Walker, Natasha, Kneissl, Ruediger, Koljonen, Karri, Kulkarni, Shrinivas, Markoff, Sera, MacTavish, Carrie, McCollough, Michael, Migliari, Simone, Miller, Jon M., Miller-Jones, James, Olamaie, Malak, Paragi, Zsolt, Pearson, Timothy, Pooley, Guy, Pottschmidt, Katja, Rebolo, Rafael, Richer, John, Riley, Julia, Rodriguez, Jerome, Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, Carmen, Rushton, Anthony, Savolainen, Petri, Scott, Paul, Shimwell, Timothy, Tavani, Marco, Tomsick, John, Tudose, Valeriu, van der Heyden, Kurt, van der Horst, Alexander, Varlotta, Angelo, Waldram, Elizabeth, Wilms, Joern, Zdziarski, Andrzej, Zwart, Jonathan, Perrott, Yvette, Rumsey, Clare, and Schammel, Michel

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) is a telescope specifically designed for high sensitivity measurements of low-surface-brightness features at cm-wavelength and has unique, important capabilities. It consists of two interferometer arrays operating over 13.5-18 GHz that image structures on scales of 0.5-10 arcmin with very low systematics. The Small Array (AMI-SA; ten 3.7-m antennas) couples very well to Sunyaev-Zel'dovich features from galaxy clusters and to many Galactic features. The Large Array (AMI-LA; eight 13-m antennas) has a collecting area ten times that of the AMI-SA and longer baselines, crucially allowing the removal of the effects of confusing radio point sources from regions of low surface-brightness, extended emission. Moreover AMI provides fast, deep object surveying and allows monitoring of large numbers of objects. In this White Paper we review the new science - both Galactic and extragalactic - already achieved with AMI and outline the prospects for much more., Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures; white paper. Revised author list, section IB, section IIIC2, references

Published
2012

7. The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission—eXTP

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ShuangNan Zhang, Andrea Santangelo, Marco Feroci, YuPeng Xu, FangJun Lu, Yong Chen, Hua Feng, Shu Zhang, Søren Brandt, Margarita Hernanz, Luca Baldini, Enrico Bozzo, Riccardo Campana, Alessandra De Rosa, YongWei Dong, Yuri Evangelista, Vladimir Karas, Norbert Meidinger, Aline Meuris, Kirpal Nandra, Teng Pan, Giovanni Pareschi, Piotr Orleanski, QiuShi Huang, Stephane Schanne, Giorgia Sironi, Daniele Spiga, Jiri Svoboda, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Christoph Tenzer, Andrea Vacchi, Silvia Zane, Dave Walton, ZhanShan Wang, Berend Winter, Xin Wu, Jean J. M. in’ t Zand, Mahdi Ahangarianabhari, Giovanni Ambrosi, Filippo Ambrosino, Marco Barbera, Stefano Basso, Jörg Bayer, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Pierluigi Bellutti, Bruna Bertucci, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Giacomo Borghi, XueLei Cao, Franck Cadoux, Francesco Ceraudo, TianXiang Chen, YuPeng Chen, Jerome Chevenez, Marta Civitani, Wei Cui, WeiWei Cui, Thomas Dauser, Ettore Del Monte, Sergio Di Cosimo, Sebastian Diebold, Victor Doroshenko, Michal Dovciak, YuanYuan Du, Lorenzo Ducci, QingMei Fan, Yannick Favre, Fabio Fuschino, José Luis Gálvez, Min Gao, MingYu Ge, Olivier Gevin, Marco Grassi, QuanYing Gu, YuDong Gu, DaWei Han, Bin Hong, Wei Hu, Long Ji, ShuMei Jia, WeiChun Jiang, Thomas Kennedy, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Irfan Kuvvetli, Claudio Labanti, Luca Latronico, Gang Li, MaoShun Li, Xian Li, Wei Li, ZhengWei Li, Olivier Limousin, HongWei Liu, XiaoJing Liu, Bo Lu, Tao Luo, Daniele Macera, Piero Malcovati, Adrian Martindale, Malgorzata Michalska, Bin Meng, Massimo Minuti, Alfredo Morbidini, Fabio Muleri, Stephane Paltani, Emanuele Perinati, Antonino Picciotto, Claudio Piemonte, JinLu Qu, Alexandre Rachevski, Irina Rashevskaya, Jerome Rodriguez, Thomas Schanz, ZhengXiang Shen, LiZhi Sheng, JiangBo Song, LiMing Song, Carmelo Sgro, Liang Sun, Ying Tan, Phil Uttley, Bo Wang, DianLong Wang, GuoFeng Wang, Juan Wang, LangPing Wang, YuSa Wang, Anna L. Watts, XiangYang Wen, Jörn Wilms, ShaoLin Xiong, JiaWei Yang, Sheng Yang, YanJi Yang, Nian Yu, WenDa Zhang, Gianluigi Zampa, Nicola Zampa, Andrzej A. Zdziarski, AiMei Zhang, ChengMo Zhang, Fan Zhang, Long Zhang, Tong Zhang, Yi Zhang, XiaoLi Zhang, ZiLiang Zhang, BaoSheng Zhao, ShiJie Zheng, YuPeng Zhou, Nicola Zorzi, J. Frans Zwart, ITA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, DNK, POL, CZE, CHN, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, eXTP, Zhang, ShuangNan, Santangelo, Andrea, Feroci, Marco, Xu, YuPeng, Lu, FangJun, Chen, Yong, Feng, Hua, Zhang, Shu, Brandt, Søren, Hernanz, Margarita, Baldini, Luca, Bozzo, Enrico, Campana, Riccardo, De Rosa, Alessandra, Dong, YongWei, Evangelista, Yuri, Karas, Vladimir, Meidinger, Norbert, Meuris, Aline, Nandra, Kirpal, Pan, Teng, Pareschi, Giovanni, Orleanski, Piotr, Huang, QiuShi, Schanne, Stephane, Sironi, Giorgia, Spiga, Daniele, Svoboda, Jiri, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Tenzer, Christoph, Vacchi, Andrea, Zane, Silvia, Walton, Dave, Wang, ZhanShan, Winter, Berend, Wu, Xin, in’ t Zand, Jean J. M., Ahangarianabhari, Mahdi, Ambrosi, Giovanni, Ambrosino, Filippo, Barbera, Marco, Basso, Stefano, Bayer, Jörg, Bellazzini, Ronaldo, Bellutti, Pierluigi, Bertucci, Bruna, Bertuccio, Giuseppe, Borghi, Giacomo, Cao, XueLei, Cadoux, Franck, Ceraudo, Francesco, Chen, TianXiang, Chen, YuPeng, Chevenez, Jerome, Civitani, Marta, Cui, Wei, Cui, WeiWei, Dauser, Thoma, Del Monte, Ettore, Di Cosimo, Sergio, Diebold, Sebastian, Doroshenko, Victor, Dovciak, Michal, Du, YuanYuan, Ducci, Lorenzo, Fan, QingMei, Favre, Yannick, Fuschino, Fabio, Gálvez, José Lui, Gao, Min, Ge, MingYu, Gevin, Olivier, Grassi, Marco, Gu, QuanYing, Gu, YuDong, Han, DaWei, Hong, Bin, Hu, Wei, Ji, Long, Jia, ShuMei, Jiang, WeiChun, Kennedy, Thoma, Kreykenbohm, Ingo, Kuvvetli, Irfan, Labanti, Claudio, Latronico, Luca, Li, Gang, Li, MaoShun, Li, Xian, Li, Wei, Li, ZhengWei, Limousin, Olivier, Liu, HongWei, Liu, XiaoJing, Lu, Bo, Luo, Tao, Macera, Daniele, Malcovati, Piero, Martindale, Adrian, Michalska, Malgorzata, Meng, Bin, Minuti, Massimo, Morbidini, Alfredo, Muleri, Fabio, Paltani, Stephane, Perinati, Emanuele, Picciotto, Antonino, Piemonte, Claudio, Qu, JinLu, Rachevski, Alexandre, Rashevskaya, Irina, Rodriguez, Jerome, Schanz, Thoma, Shen, ZhengXiang, Sheng, LiZhi, Song, JiangBo, Song, LiMing, Sgro, Carmelo, Sun, Liang, Tan, Ying, Uttley, Phil, Wang, Bo, Wang, DianLong, Wang, GuoFeng, Wang, Juan, Wang, LangPing, Wang, YuSa, Watts, Anna L., Wen, XiangYang, Wilms, Jörn, Xiong, ShaoLin, Yang, JiaWei, Yang, Sheng, Yang, YanJi, Yu, Nian, Zhang, WenDa, Zampa, Gianluigi, Zampa, Nicola, Zdziarski, Andrzej A., Zhang, AiMei, Zhang, ChengMo, Zhang, Fan, Zhang, Long, Zhang, Tong, Zhang, Yi, Zhang, XiaoLi, Zhang, ZiLiang, Zhao, BaoSheng, Zheng, ShiJie, Zhou, YuPeng, Zorzi, Nicola, Zwart, J. Frans, and High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI)

Subjects
Gravity (chemistry), Computer science, space mission: eXTP, X-ray timing, Polarimetry, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Physics and Astronomy (all), Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia E Astrofisica, Observatory, X-ray instrumentation, 0103 physical sciences, X-ray polarimetry, Ground segment, Aerospace engineering, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Spacecraft, sezele, business.industry, Payload, Gravitational wave, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Space Science, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

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

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2019
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