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Monday 6 February

The eXTP mission
Chair: Shuang-Nan Zhang
08:30 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 09:40 Welcome address – Marco Feroci (INAF-IAPS, Italy)
09:40 – 10:00 Address by the ASI President – Roberto Battiston (ASI, Italy)
10:00 – 10:15 Address by CNSA – Zhao Jian (CNSA, China)
10:15 – 10:45 ESA Cooperation Program with China (I) – Arvind Parmar (ESA, Netherlands)
 
10:45 – 11.15 Coffee Break
 
Chair: S. Zane
11:15 – 11:45 High–throughput X–ray astronomy (I) – Luigi Stella (INAF-OAR, Italy)
11:45 – 12:15 The eXTP Mission (I) – Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP)/Marco Feroci (INAF-IAPS, Italy)
12:15 – 12:35 Preliminary design of the eXTP satellite (S) – Hong Bin (CAST, China)
12:35 – 12:50 Current design of the eXTP payload (S) – Xu Yupeng (IHEP, China)
12:50 – 13:10 The eXTP science performance (S) – Fangjun Lu (IHEP, China)
 
13:10 – 14:25 Lunch Break
 
Dense Matter
Chair: D. Barret
14:25 – 14:55 Dense Matter investigations with eXTP (I) – Anna Watts (UvA, Netherlands)
14:55 – 15:25 Constraining the NS EoS with QPOs (I) – Wenfei Yu (SAO, China)
15:25 – 15:55 NS radii and masses constraints from bursts and polarization (I) – Juri Poutanen (Univ. of Turku, Finland)
15:55 – 16:10 Using mHz QPOs to put constraints on NS size and EOS with eXTP – Holger Stiele (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
16:10 – 16:25 Matter at extreme densities: models and open problems – Ignazio Bombaci (Pisa Univ., Italy)
 
16:25 – 16:55 Coffee Break
 
Observatory Science I
Chair: S. Brandt
16:55 – 17:25 Observatory science with eXTP (I) – Jean in ‘t Zand (SRON, Netherlands)
17:25 – 17:40 BH accretion and wind (S) – Yuan Feng (SAO, China)
17:40 – 17:55 Disk/corona modelling in the eXTP era (S) – Liu Bifang (NAO, China)
17:55 – 18:10 eXTP observation of supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae (S) – Yang Chen (Nanjing Univ., China)
18:10 – 18:25 Observing SS 433 with eXTP – Herman Marshall (MIT, USA)
 
Tuedsay 7 February
 
Accretion in Strong Field Gravity
Chair: G. Matt
09:00 – 09:30 Fe–line diagnostics in accreting BHs (I) Alessandra De Rosa (INAF-IAPS, Italy)
09:30 – 09:50 eXTP continuum fitting in XRBs (S) – Gou Lijun (NAO, China)
09:50 – 10:05 Comparing origins of low-frequency QPOs with spectral-timing – Abigail Stevens (UVA, Netherlands)
10:05 – 10:20 Testing the relativistic precession model using low frequency and kHz QPOs in NS LMXBs with known spin – Marieke van Doesburgh (UVA, Netherlands)
10:20 – 10:35 Geodesic models of Quasi Periodic Oscillations as probe of strong gravity effects – Andrea Maselli (IAAT, Germany)
10:35 – 10:50 Winds and high energy flares in GRO J1655-40 – Emrah Kalemci (Sabanci Univ., Turkey)
10:50 – 11:05 Quantitative tests of propagating mass accretion rate fluctuations: achievements and challenges – Stefano Rapisarda (API, Netherlands)
 
11:05 – 11.35 Coffee Break
 
Chair: D. Chakrabarty
11:35 – 12:05 Reverberation mapping (I) Phil Uttley (UvA, Netherlands)
12:05 – 12:25 Spectral–polarimetry of QPOs (S) – Adam Ingram (UVA, Netherlands)
12:25 – 12:40 Time average polarimetry (S) – Yuan Yefei (USTC, China)
12:40 – 12:55 The effects of spectral hardness changes on reverberation lags – Guglielmo Mastroserio (UVA, Netherlands)
 
12:55 – 14:30 Lunch Break
 
Strong Magnetism
Chair: S. Zhang
14:30 – 15:00 eXTP polarimetry: a new science window (I) – Hua Feng (Tsinghua Univ., China)
15:00 – 15:15 The X-ray polarization of reprocessed emission in BH systems – Rene W. Goosmann (Strasbourg Obs., France)
15:15 – 15:30 Echoes of the past outbursts of Sgr A* to be revealed with X-ray polarimetry – Frederic Marin (Strasbourg Obs., France)
15:30 – 16:00 X–ray polarimetry and fundamental physics (I) – Jeremy Heyl (UBC, Canada)
16:00 – 16:15 Polarized X-ray emission from compact objects with eXTP – Ilaria Caiazzo (UBC, Canada)
16:15 – 16:30 Probing Galactic Center Cosmic-rays with X-ray Polarimetry – Shuo Zhang (MIT, USA)
 
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
 
Compact Objects
Chair: S. Bhattacharyya
17:00 – 17:15 QPO simulations with eXTP (S) – Mingyu Ge (IHEP, China)
17:15 – 17:30 Accretion and rotation power in transitional millisecond pulsars – Alessandro Papitto (INAF-OAR, Italy)
17:30 – 17:45 The ignition site of type-I X-ray bursts on the surface of NSs – Guobao Zhang (NYU, USA)
17:45 – 18:00 Discovery of a slow and soft QPO in the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J00291+5934 – Carlo Ferrigno (ISDC, Switzerland)
18:00 – 18:15 Quasi-periodic modulation of accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars – Peter Bult (GSFC, USA)
 
Wednesday 8 February
 
Current and Future Missions
Chair: J. W. den Herder
09:00 – 09:15 ASTROSAT (S) – Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India)
09:15 – 09:30 Athena status and a focus on its timing capabilities (S) – Didier Barret (IRAP, France)
09:30 – 09:45 NiCER (S) – Paul Ray (NRL, USA)
09:45 – 10:00 STROBE–X (S) – Paul Ray (NRL, USA)
10:00 – 10:15 IXPE and XIPE (S) – Paolo Soffitta (INAF-IASF, Italy)
10:15 – 10:30 SVOM (S) – Stephane Schanne (CEA, France)
 
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
 
Chair: W. Cui
11:00 – 11:15 HXMT and POLAR (S) – Shuang–Nan Zhang (IHEP, China)
11:15 – 11:35 Spectrum–X–Gamma, MVN, and G400 (S) – Alexander Lutovinov (IKI, Russia)
11:35 – 11:50 THESEUS (S) – Lorenzo Amati (INAF-IASF Bologna, Italy)
11:50 – 12:05 A sub-keV X-ray polarimeter - Herman Marshall (MIT - USA)
12:05 – 12:20 Development of X-ray imaging telescope optics for eXTP mission – Zhanshan Wang (Tongji Univ., China)
 
Multi–messenger & Time–Domain Astronomy
12:20 – 12:50 Synergies between eXTP and the GW observatories (I) – Renxin Xu (Peking Univ.)
12:50 – 13:05 TeV (S) – Andrea Santangelo (IAAT, Germany)
13:05 – 13:20 eXTP and Optical Polarimetry in the ELT Era – Andrew Shearer (National Univ. of Ireland, Ireland)
 
13:20 – 14:30 Lunch Break
 
Strongly Magnetized Sources & Gamma-ray Bursts
Chair: V. Karas
14:30 – 15:00 Polarization in strongly magnetized sources (I) Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia Univ., USA)
15:00 – 15:15 GRB observations with eXTP (S) – Lorenzo Amati (INAF-IASF Bologna, Italy)
15:15 – 15:30 GRB afterglows with eXTP (S) – Wu Xuefeng / Mixiang Lan (PMO, China)
15:30 – 15:45 The eXTP contribution to the study of rotation-powered pulsars – Roberto Mignani (INAF-IASF Milano, Italy)
15:45 – 16:00 Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients with eXTP – Patrizia Romano (INAF-OA Brera, Italy)
 
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
 
Magnetars
Chair: M. Hernanz
16:30 – 17:00 Magnetars (I) Gianluca Israel (INAF-OAR, Italy)
17:00 – 17:15 The outbursts of magnetars (S) – Lin Lin (Beijing Normal Univ., China)
17:15 – 17:30 Magnetars in binaries (S) – Wei Wang (NAOC, China)
17:30 – 17:45 Polarized thermal emission from strongly magnetized NSs – Denis Gonzalez–Caniulef (UCL/MSSL, UK)
 
17:45 – 18:00 Concluding Remarks – Andrea Santangelo (IAAT, Germany)
 
End of the Workshop

 
Confirmed Posters:
 
  • Influence of a polarized primary source on the X-ray polarization resulting from disc reflection in AGN - Michal Dovciak (Astronomical Institute, Czech Republic)
  • Detection of a possible X-ray Quasi-periodic Oscillation in the Active Galactic Nucleus 1H 0707-495 – Haiwu Pan (NAO, China)
  • X-ray Spectral-timing Study Reveals the Properties of a super-Eddington Accretion Flow in a Type-1 AGN – Chichuan Jin (MPE, Germany)
  • The LOFT/LAD background simulations and their implications for eXTP – Riccardo Campana (INAF-IASF Bologna, Italy)
  • Revisiting the statistical significance of the detections of oscillations in type I X-ray bursts observed by RXTE – Anna Bilous (UVA, Netherlands)
  • High-throughput Light-weight Thin Aluminum Foil X-ray Mirror - Takashi Okajima (GSFC, USA)
  • X-BOsS: An open-source code for neutron star X-ray Burst Oscillation Simulation – Thomas Riley (UVA, Netherlands)
  • Superburst Oscillations – Frank Chambers (UVA, Netherlands)
  • The puzzling variation of the orbital period of MXB 1659-298 – Rosario Iaria (Palermo Univ., Italy)
  • Building a database of element-by-element X-ray spectral lines – Francesco Leone (INAF-OA Catania, Italy)
  • Radiation Sensors: R&D and production at FBK Facility – Pierluigi Bellutti (FBK, Italy)
  • Effects of transient accretion on millisecond pulsars – Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India)
  • Using Leaked Power to Measure Intrinsic AGN PSD in the eXTP Era - S.F. Zhu  (USTC, China)
  • Probing extreme gravity in BH binaries with QPOs - Jakob van den Eijnden (UVA, Netherlands)
  • The coupling of the radiatively efficient accretion flow and the jet for the radio/X-ray correlation in black hole X-ray binaries - Erlin Qiao (NAO, China)
  • Type-I burst as probe to the XRB accretion – Shu Zhang (IHEP, China)
  • A spectral-timing analysis of the kHz QPOs in 4U 1636-53: The frequency-energy resolved rms spectrum - Evandro Martinez Ribeiro (Univ. Of Groningen, Netherlands)
  • Time variability of NS-LMXBs as oscillation modes of relativistic axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric tori: implications for dynamical mechanisms - Marcio G. B. de Avellar (Frankfurt Univ., Germany)
  • Characterization of the NNVT capillary plate collimator - Francesco Ceraudo (INAF-IAPS, Italy)
  • An update on regular and chaotic motion in an inclined black hole magnetospere - Vladimir Karas (Charles Univ., Czech Republic)
  • NuSTAR observations of the Neutron Star 4U 1636-53 - Yanan Wang (Univ. Of Groningen, Netherlands)
  • Super-spinning compact objects and forced resonance models of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations - Katka Goluchova (Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic)