High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology in the era of all-sky surveys

Session

Future missions and instruments II

16 Jun 2026, 14:50

76. The NewAthena X-ray Observatory

Prof. James Aird (University of Edinburgh)

16/06/2026, 14:50

NewAthena will be the European Space Agency’s next large X-ray observatory. It will have revolutionary capabilities enabled by the combination of a large collecting-area mirror, a high-resolution spatially resolved X-ray integral-field spectrometer, and a wide-field X-ray imager. This next-generation observatory will thus enable transformational progress across all areas of astrophysics....

33. Exploring the Extremes with eXTP

Hua Feng (Institute of High Energy Physics)

16/06/2026, 15:20

The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission is a flagship X-ray observatory designed to probe fundamental physics and astrophysics under extreme conditions. Combining high-throughput spectroscopy, high-resolution timing, and sensitive polarimetry, eXTP aims to constrain the equation of state of matter at supra-nuclear densities, detect quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects, and...

50. The NUSES space mission

Leandro Silveri (New York University Abu Dhabi)

16/06/2026, 15:50

NUSES is a satellite mission composed by two scientific payloads: Terzina and Zirè.
Zirè is conceived to perform measurements of electrons, protons and light nuclei up to hundreds of MeV as well as gamma-rays in the energy range between 0.1-30 MeV. Its Low-Energy Module can detect charged particles with energy as low as hundreds of keV. Scientific goals for this payload feature low-energy...