eXTP Meeting

14-15 April 2016 Fudan University (Shanghai, China)

VENUE:

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, ROOM 221

Program

April 14 (Thursday)

9:15 - 9:25 Presentation of the participants, welcome and logistics informations (Cosimo Bambi)

9:25-9:45 Goals of the meeting (Andrea Santangelo)

9:45 12:00 Session on concept, status and baseline of the eXTP mission

9:45-10:15 Status of e-XTP including baseline instruments (Fangjun Lu) 

10:15-10:30 The Polarimetry Focusing Array I: instrument, status (Hua Feng)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:20 The Polarimetry Focusing Array II: Sensitivity, simulation tools (Hua Feng) 

11:20-11:40 Expected Performance of SFA, LAD and WFM (Shu Zhang)

11:40-12:00 General Discussion: from the White Papers to the Science Case and the Science Requirements (All)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:50 Session on Dense Matter (07:30 - 08:59 CET)

13:30 - 14:10 Introduction to the white paper for dense Matter (A. Watts) 

14:10 - 14:30 Other key aspects of the DM white paper (Shu Zhang) 

14:30 - 14:50 Polarization simulation of millisecond pulsars (Long Ji)

14:50 - 15.30 Impact of GWs discovery (08:50 - 09:30 CET)

14:50 - 15:30 The impact of GWs discovery for the eXTP science (M. Feroci, all)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 18:00 Session on Observatory Science (10:00 - 12:00 CET)

16:00 - 16:20 Overview of the observatory science white paper (E. Bozzo) 

16:20 - 16:40 Supernova remnants with eXTP (Y. Chen/P. Zhou)

16:40 - 17:00 Type-I X-ray bursts with eXTP (J. in 't Zand)

17:00 - 17:20 Cataclismic Variables with eXTP (M. Hernanz)

17:20 - 17:40 Gamma ray bursts with eXTP (L. Amati/G. Stratta) 

17:40 - 18:00 Radio-loud AGNs with eXTP (I. Donnarumma)

April 15 (Friday)

09:00- 10:30 Session on Strong Field Gravity I (03:00 - 04:30 CET)

09:00- 09:05 Overall structure of the SFG-WP (A. De Rosa)

09:05 - 09.25 Spectral signature observed in AGN with eXTP: SFG and inner structure - (A. De Rosa, Bin Luo)

09:25 - 09:45 Spectral signature observed in XRBs with eXTP: SFG and inner structure - (P. Uttley, A. De Rosa)

09:45 - 10:15 Constraining capability of GW and Fe line to test the Kerr metric (C. Bambi, all)

10:15 - 10.30 Time average polarimetry (Yefei Yuan)

10:30-10.45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:15 Session on Strong Field Gravity II (04:30 - 05:15 CET)

10:45 - 11:10 Time resolved polarimetry and X-ray reverberation/accretion propagation (P. Uttley)

11:15 - 13:00 Session on Strong Magnetism (05:15 - 07:00 CET)

11:15 - 11:30 The eXTP White paper on Strong Magnetism (A. Santangelo)

11:30 - 11:55 Physics and Astrophysics of Magnetars (R. Xu)

11:50 - 12:15 QED studies with eXTP (J. Heyl)

12:15 - 12:25 X-ray Polarization for Black Hole Accretion Disks: QED Effects (I. Caiazzo) 

12:25 - 12:40 Magnetars in Binaries (H. Tong)

12:40 - 12:55 Accreting Pulsars (A. Santangelo)

12.55-14.00 lunch

14.00-15.00 Discussion and Wrap-up

Participant List

Cosimo Bambi (Fudan University, China)

Enrico Bozzo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Ilaria Caiazzo (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Kishalay Choudhury (Fudan University, China)

Alessandra De Rosa (IAPS/INAF, Italy)

Hua Feng (Tsinghua University, China)

Masoumeh Ghasemi-Nodehi (Fudan University, China)

Lijun Gou (NAOC/CAS, China)

Tong Hao (XAO/CAS, China)

Jeremy Heyl (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Long Ji (IHEP/CAS, China)

Jiachen Jiang (Fudan University, China)

Lin Lin (Beijing Normal University, China)

Yuan Liu (IHEP/CAS, China)

Fangjun Lu (IHEP/CAS, China)

Sourabh Nampalliwar (Fudan University, China)

Andrea Santangelo (Tübingen University, Germany)

Xinwen Shu (Anhui Normal University, China)

Shangyu Sun (Fudan University, China)

Phil Uttley (Amsterdam University, Netherlands)

Junfeng Wang (Xiamen University, China)

Yu Wang (Fudan University, China)

Shan-Shan Weng (Nanjing Normal University, China)

Renxin Xu (Peking University, China)

Yongquan Xue (USTC, China)

Ye-Fei Yuan (USTC, China)

Shu Zhang (IHEP/CAS, China)