5 papers
Do Accretion Disks Get Bent Out of Shape? Investigating the Origin of Rapid Fluctuations in the Tails of Long Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts
D. R. Ballantyne, N. Degenaar
Thermonuclear X-ray bursts from the surfaces of neutron stars affect the surrounding accretion flow, revealing details of the underlying physical processes influencing accretion ph…
Observatory Science with eXTP
Ping Zhou, Jirong Mao, Liang Zhang +97
Scheduled for launch in 2030, the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarization (eXTP) telescope is a Chinese space-based mission aimed at studying extreme conditions and phenomena in ast…
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…
X-Ray Reflection Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Julie Malewicz, David R. Ballantyne, Tamara BogdanoviÄ +2
We investigate the presence of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary signatures and the feasibility of identifying them through X-ray reflection spectra. The X-ray emitting region…
The Compton-thick AGN Population and the Distribution of Low-mass AGN in our Cosmic Backyard
A. Annuar, D. M. Alexander, P. Gandhi +21
We present a census of the Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nucleus (AGN) population and the column density () distribution of AGN in our cosmic backyard using a mid-…