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astro-ph.HE2026

Neutron Star Mass-Radius Constraints for EXO 0748676 from 2008-2025 Quiescent X-ray Spectra

Mingyang Wang, Guobao Zhang, Ang Li

We present new constraints on the mass and radius of the neutron star in the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary EXO 0748676 obtained from a joint analysis of 20 quiescent X-ray…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

An Archival Optical Counterpart Search for Extragalactic Fast X-Ray Transients Discovered by Einstein Probe

Run-Duo Liang, Wen-Xiong Li, Liang-Duan Liu +50

Extragalactic fast X-ray transients (eFXTs) represent a rapidly growing class of high-energy phenomena, whose physical origins remain poorly understood. With its wide-field, sensit…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

EP250207b is not a collapsar fast X-ray transient. Is it due to a compact object merger?

P. G. Jonker, A. J. Levan, Xing Liu +41

Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are short-lived extra-galactic X-ray sources. Recent progress through multi-wavelength follow-up of Einstein Probe discovered FXTs has shown that sever…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

Prospects for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science with eXTP

Shu-Xu Yi, Wen Zhao, Ren-Xin Xu +75

In this new era of time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy, various new transients and new phenomena are constantly being discovered thanks to the rapid advances in observations,…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 26 cited

Dense Matter in Neutron Stars with eXTP

Ang Li, Anna L. Watts, Guobao Zhang +82

In this White Paper, we present the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission to constrain the equation of state of dense matter in neutron stars, explo…

astro-ph.HE2025

The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission -- eXTP for launch in 2030

Shuang-Nan Zhang, Andrea Santangelo, Yupeng Xu +155

In this paper we present the current status of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission, which has been fully approved for launch in 2030. eXTP is a space science mission…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 18 cited

PSR J1231-1411 revisited: Pulse Profile Analysis of X-ray Observation

Liqiang Qi, Shijie Zheng, Juan Zhang +14

One of the primary goals of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)-like X-ray missions is to impose stringent constraints on the neutron star equation of state by preci…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 89 cited

Science objectives of the Einstein Probe mission

Weimin Yuan, Lixin Dai, Hua Feng +93

The Einstein Probe (EP) is an interdisciplinary mission of time-domain and X-ray astronomy. Equipped with a wide-field lobster-eye X-ray focusing imager, EP will discover cosmic X-…

astro-ph.HE2024

Detection of an Orphan X-ray Flare from a Blazar Candidate EP240709a with Einstein Probe

Mingjun Liu, Yijia Zhang, Yun Wang +49

Blazars are often observed to flare across multiple wavelengths. Orphan flares from blazars have been only detected a few times, providing an opportunity to understand the structur…