Dr. Prof. Zhaosheng Li (Xiangtan University, China) will lead the project and will contribute to burst data analysis which are observed mainly by Chinese telescopes, HXMT, EP , SVOM, and also public archived data by NICER.
A/Prof. Duncan Galloway (Monash University, Australia) will co-lead the project, and will contribute to the data reduction and analysis to support the observational component of the program; provide overview on the data management; and will contribute to the observation-model comparisons.
Dr. Prof. Nathalie Degenaar (Associate Professor at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
will contribute in the observational studies of thermonuclear bursts and their interaction with
accretion flows & outflows.
Dr. Prof. Helei Liu (Faculty, Xinjiang University, China) will perform theoretical simulations of
type I X-ray burst, quiescent luminosity of accreting neutron star and crust cooling of soft
X-ray transients.
Dr. Thomas Russell (INAF-IASF Palermo, Italy) will contribute his expertise in radio observations and the link between accretion and ejection around accreting compact objects.
Dr. Gaurava Jaisawal (Senior Researcher/Associate Professor, DTU, Denmark) will carry out
X-ray observations, Spectral and timing studies of X-ray Bursts
Dr. Akira Dohi (Postdoc, RIKEN) will probe the nature of accreting neutron stars through
numerical modeling of X-ray bursts and analysis of X-ray burst data observed by NinjaSat.
Dr. Yuri Cavecchi (UPC, Spain) will contribute his expertise on the theoretical understanding
of burst ignition and flame propagation and their connection to accretion and star properties,
using the accumulated observational data to provide key tests of the burning models.
Ms. Sierra Casten (Grad student, MSU, USA) will contribute to the analysis and
interpretation of data from NICER and other instruments, and will also perform numerical
simulations with MESA to match burst observations.
Ms. Amira Ayoyama (RIKEN, Japan) will contribute their expertise on acquisition, analysis
and interpretation of NinjaSAT data on thermonuclear bursts.
The motivation for this international team followed the suggestion of the late Prof. Maurizio
Falanga, who would have also been a key team member. We are deeply saddened by his
sudden loss but we expect that he would have wanted our team activities to go ahead
despite his absence.