Accretion in strong field gravity with eXTP

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Publication date 02-2019
Journal Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy
Article number 29504
Volume | Issue number 62 | 2
Number of pages 29
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
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
Document type Article
Note In special issue: The X-ray Timing and Polarimetry Frontier with eXTP.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-018-9297-0
Published at https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04022
Other links https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019SCPMA..6229504D/abstract https://www.isdc.unige.ch/extp/
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