Name: Scientific workshop on the eXTP mission
Start: 2026-08-31T08:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-09-02T18:50:00+03:00
Location: Radisson Blu Marina Palace Hotel

Scientific workshop on the eXTP mission

from Monday, August 31, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, September 2, 2026 (6:50 PM)

Monday, August 31, 2026

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Opening
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Shuang-Nan Zhang

9:10 AM Practical information - Sergey Tsygankov
9:15 AM eXTP and its era
9:15 AM - 10:35 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Update on the eXTP Mission for Launch in 2030 - Shuang-Nan Zhang

9:30 AM eXTP as a global mission: payload, science and organization - Feng Hua

9:50 AM Overall Design and Development Progress of eXTP platform - Yonghe Zhang

10:05 AM eXTP Mission Overview: Architecture and Development Status - Jianhua Zheng

10:20 AM International collaboration of the eXTP mission - Hongwei Liu
10:35 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:35 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM eXTP and its era
11:05 AM - 11:55 AM
Contributions

11:05 AM W2C and CXBe on eXTP: new design, performance and science questions - Roland Walter

11:20 AM The Globe Orbiting Soft X-ray Polarimeter (GOSoX) - Herman Marshall

11:35 AM All Sky Monitoring at X-rays: what comes next? - Marco Feroci
11:55 AM Ultra dense matter
11:55 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:55 AM Introducing the science case for the WG1 (Ultra dense matter) - Sebastien Guillot

12:10 PM Neutron Star Interiors in the eXTP Era: From Macroscopic Observables to Microphysics - Ang Li

12:35 PM Constraining the equation of state of ultra-dense matter in neutron stars - Tuomo Salmi
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:10 PM
2:10 PM Ultra dense matter
2:10 PM - 3:10 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM Pulse profile modelling of accreting millisecond pulsars: disk occultation and parameter inference - Yinghan Mao

2:25 PM Equation-of-state-informed pulse profile modeling - Mariska Hoogkamer

2:40 PM Polarised X-ray emission from accreting millisecond pulsars - Alessandro Papitto

2:55 PM Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars as Laboratories for eXTP-era Spectral and Timing Studies - Andrea Sanna
3:10 PM Flash talks: WG1
WG1
3:10 PM - 3:25 PM
Contributions

3:10 PM Pulse profile modelling of accreting millisecond pulsars before and during the eXTP era - Bas Dorsman

3:13 PM Evidence for distinct evolutionary channels in neutron star LMXBs: prospects for eXTP - Alessandro Patruno

3:16 PM Neutron star thermal evolution and inner structure - Xia Zhou
3:25 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:25 PM - 3:55 PM
3:55 PM Toward innovative spectral-timing-polarization analysis
3:55 PM - 5:20 PM
Contributions

3:55 PM The power of spectral-timing-polarimetry analysis - Adam Ingram

4:20 PM X-ray spectral-timing of accreting black holes: current challenges and prospects for the eXTP era - Guglielmo Mastroserio

4:40 PM Phase-Resolved Spectroscopy and Polarimetry of Black-Hole QPOs via Mode Decomposition: Evidence for Precession and Prospects with eXTP - Qingcang Shui

5:00 PM nDspec: a new Python-based modelling software for multi-dimensional model fitting - Matteo Lucchini
6:00 PM Reception at the Tuorla observatory
Reception at the Tuorla observatory
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
9:00 AM Strong field gravity
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Introducing the science case for the WG2 (Strong field gravity) - Qingcui Bu

9:15 AM Probe the inner accretion regions around stellar-mass black holes - Bei You

9:40 AM Probing the inner regions around black holes with spectroscopy, timing and polarimetry - Giorgio Matt

10:05 AM Accretion geometry of black hole X-ray binaries revealed by X-ray data - Honghui Liu

10:25 AM Variability from accreting black holes across the full X-ray band - Niek Bollemeijer
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM Strong field gravity
11:10 AM - 11:55 AM
Contributions

11:10 AM The Promise of eXTP for mapping the evolution of accretion flows in X-ray Binaries - Lian Tao

11:25 AM Bridging simulations and observations: advancing X-ray spectral models with GRMHD - Swarnim Shashank

11:40 AM X-ray polarimetry as a tool to study compact objects - Juri Poutanen
11:55 AM Flash talks: WG2
WG2
11:55 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:55 AM A remarkable anti-correlation between optical/hard X-rays in Swift J1727.8-1613 revealed by Insight-HXMT - Ruican Ma

11:58 AM Understanding the evolution of the coronal geometry through exploiting QPO characteristics - Biki Ram

12:01 PM A Hidden Pulse: Uncovering a New Timing Signal in Cygnus X-1 with AstroSat - Sandeep Rout
12:15 PM Magnetism
12:15 PM - 12:55 PM
Contributions

12:15 PM Introducing the science case for the WG3 (Magnetism) - Mingyu Ge

12:30 PM Radiative Processes and QED Effects in strong magnetic fields: Implications for X-ray Pulsars - Alexander Mushtukov
12:55 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:55 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Magnetism
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Highly magnetised isolated neutron star observations - the smoking gun of QED vacuum birefringence? - Ruth Kelly

2:25 PM Can we see the shape of the magnetic field? - Nabil Brice

2:40 PM Polarimetric views of X-ray Pulsars: From IXPE to eXTP - Sofia Forsblom

2:55 PM Study the low accretion rate regime of accreting X-ray pulsars with eXTP - Long Ji

3:15 PM Phase-Resolved Polarimetry of 1E 2259+586 in an Active State: IXPE Results and Prospects for eXTP - Lorenzo Marra
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Magnetism
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Signatures of thermal resonant Comptonization as geometry tracers in accreting neutron stars - Ekaterina Sokolova-Lapa
4:20 PM Flash talks: WG3
WG3
4:20 PM - 4:35 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Application of Decentred Rotating Vector Model to Polarization Data of X-ray Pulsars - Sofia Forsblom

4:23 PM Testing Pulsar Geometry Constraint Methods with Simulated Polarization Data - Alexander Salganik

4:26 PM Propeller effect in action: Unveiling quenched accretion in the transient X-ray pulsar 4U 0115+63 - Hua Xiao
4:40 PM Working group coordinators meeting

4:40 PM - 5:30 PM

6:00 PM Conference dinner
Conference dinner
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
9:00 AM Multimessenger
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Introducing the science case for the WG4 (Multimessenger) - Simone Dall'Osso

9:15 AM Enable time-domain and multi-messenger astrophysics, in synergy with future observatories across the electromagnetic and gravitational-wave spectrum - Eleonora Troja

9:30 AM Fast X-ray Transients: From EP Breakthroughs to eXTP Prospects - He Gao

9:45 AM Observing Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational-Wave Event - Shu-Xu Yi

10:00 AM The observational properties of magnetar bursts and outbursts - Lin Lin

10:15 AM Detection prospects of the emissions from gamma-ray burst by eXTP/PFA - Mi-Xiang Lan
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Multimessenger
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

11:00 AM LISA and eXTP: overlap and synergy? - Alessandra De Rosa

11:15 AM eXTP perspectives on Dark Matter searches - Denys Malyshev
11:30 AM Observatory science
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Introducing the science case for the WG5 (Observatory science) - Ping Zhou

11:45 AM Exploring X-ray binaries with eXTP - Liang Zhang

12:00 PM Constraining the geometry of the outer disk region studying the polarization in the X-Ray dips - Alessandro Di Marco

12:15 PM IXPE view of not pulsating accreting neutron stars in X-ray binaries - Fabio La Monaca

12:30 PM The efficiency of geometric beaming in super-Eddington X-ray sources - Varpu Ahlberg

12:45 PM X-ray Polarimetry of Pulsar Wind Nebulae: Insights from IXPE and the Path to eXTP - Kuan Liu
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Observatory science
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM AGN research expected in the observatory science of eXTP - Jirong Mao

2:15 PM Changing-State AGN as Laboratories for SMBH Accretion Physics - Claudio Ricci

2:30 PM Testing particle acceleration and jet composition models in supermassive black hole jets with IXPE - Ioannis Liodakis
2:45 PM Flash talks: WG4 and WG5
WG4 and WG5
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Contributions

2:45 PM Fast Radio Bursts from Young Magnetars: High-Energy Tests with eXTP - Marcio G B de Avellar

2:48 PM TDE Observations with Einstein Probe and Prospects in the eXTP Era - Chichuan Jin

2:51 PM Galactic X-ray Binaries in the Multi-Wavelength Sky - Artur Avakyan

2:54 PM Probing jet physics with X-ray polarization: from IXPE to eXTP - Athira M Bharathan

2:57 PM An angle-dependent synchrotron and SSC polarization model for blazars - Motseothata Tisang

3:00 PM X-Ray Polarization Properties of High-Synchrotron-Peaked Blazars - Jin Zhang

3:03 PM How would eXTP contribute to the study of burst-accretion interactions? - Chuanyu Wei

3:06 PM Accretion Geometry Across Spectral States in Z and Atoll NS-LMXBs: Lessons from IXPE and Prospects for eXTP - Lorenzo Marra
3:15 PM Future missions
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Building on SVOM: the CATCH-PM constellation for astrophysical transients hunting - Stephan Schanne
3:35 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:35 PM - 4:05 PM
4:05 PM Future missions
4:05 PM - 5:20 PM
Contributions

4:05 PM The POLAR-2 mission - Hancheng Li

4:20 PM The EXPO Mission - Lorenzo Marra

4:35 PM The Herd Mission - Shuang-Nan Zhang

4:50 PM Combining microarcsec images of accretion disks with eXTP observations - Gilles Koziol

5:05 PM X-ray interferometric space telescope (XRIstel) mission concept - Phil Uttley
5:20 PM Concluding remarks
Concluding remarks
5:20 PM - 5:30 PM