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Name: AO-6 Key Programme 5: SMC/47 Tuc
Published: 2025-03-25T09:54:35Z

Proposal ID	0634000
Obs ID	06340000001, 06340000002, 06340000003, 06340000004
Title	AO-6 Key Programme 5: SMC/47 Tuc
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-x1appj6
Author	Key Programme
Abstract	AO-6 Key Programme 5: SMC/47 TucWe propose Key Programme status for the field containing 47 Tuc, which is the best studied globular cluster in most wavelengths. Our major goal is to understand whether millisecond pulsars can be a strong source of 511 keV annihilation line emission, as this is the most easily testable of the viable mechanisms for producing the annihilation line emission proposed from the Galactic Center region -- because 47 Tuc is substantially closer to us than is the Galactic Center, and all its emission fits within a single SPI beam, a 2 Megasecond SPI observation should yield a detection of 511 keV emission from 47 Tuc if millisecond pulsars are the dominant source of 511 keV emission from the Galactic Center. Understanding the Galactic Center 511 keV emission is a crucial goal: if we can eliminate mundane possibilities such as pulsar winds and positrons generated in black hole X-ray binary jets, then we can begin to take very seriously the possibility that this emission is indicating the decay of some exotic form of dark matter. Additionally, most of the Small Magellanic Cloud (including the Bar, the highest star formation rate region) fits comfortably within the INTEGRAL field of view if 47 Tuc is the primary target. Because this region of the sky has a large number of relatively short visibility windows, executing this program will require roughly weekly observations of 45 kiloseconds, which is optimal for discovering bright transients in the SMC, and does no harm to the science goals of detecting annihilation line emission from 47 Tuc and of making a deep survey of the persistent emission of the SMC.
Publications	A New γ-Ray Loud, Eclipsing Low-mass X-Ray Binary - Strader, Jay, Li, Kwan-Lok,Chomiuk, Laura,Heinke, Craig O.,Udalski, Andrzej,Peacock, Mark,Shishkovsky, Laura,Tremou, Evangelia (2016-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016ApJ...831...89S Annihilation emission from young supernova remnants - Martin, P., Vink, J.,Jiraskova, S.,Jean, P.,Diehl, R. (2010-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010A&A...519A.100M Background modelling for I3-ray spectroscopy with INTEGRAL/SPI - Siegert, Thomas, Diehl, Roland,Weinberger, Christoph,Pleintinger, Moritz M. M.,Greiner, Jochen,Zhang, Xiaoling (2019-06-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...626A..73S Be/X-ray binary SXP6.85 undergoes large Type II outburst in the Small Magellanic Cloud - Townsend, L. J., Coe, M. J.,McBride, V. A.,Bird, A. J.,Schurch, M. P. E.,Corbet, R. H. D.,Haberl, F.,Galache, J. L.,Udalski, A. (2010-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010MNRAS.403.1239T Catalog of short gamma-ray transients detected in the SPI/INTEGRAL experiment - Minaev, P. Yu., Pozanenko, A. S.,Molkov, S. V.,Grebenev, S. A. (2014-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014AstL...40..235M Comparing simulated ²⁶Al maps to gamma-ray measurements - Pleintinger, Moritz M. M., Siegert, Thomas,Diehl, Roland,Fujimoto, Yusuke,Greiner, Jochen,Krause, Martin G. H.,Krumholz, Mark R. (2019-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...632A..73P Constraints on positron annihilation kinematics in the inner Galaxy - Siegert, Thomas, Crocker, Roland M.,Diehl, Roland,Krause, Martin G. H.,Panther, Fiona H.,Pleintinger, Moritz M. M.,Weinberger, Christoph (2019-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...627A.126S Deep hard X-ray survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud - Grebenev, S. A., Lutovinov, A. A.,Tsygankov, S. S.,Mereminskiy, I. A. (2013-01-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013MNRAS.428...50G Diffuse Emission Measurement with the SPectrometer on INTEGRAL as an Indirect Probe of Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons - Bouchet, Laurent, Strong, Andrew W.,Porter, Troy A.,Moskalenko, Igor V.,Jourdain, Elisabeth,Roques, Jean-Pierre (2011-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011ApJ...739...29B Diffuse Galactic emission spectrum between 0.5 and 8.0 MeV - Siegert, Thomas, Berteaud, Joanna,Calore, Francesca,Serpico, Pasquale D.,Weinberger, Christoph (2022-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2022A&A...660A.130S Dose Measured On-Board INTEGRAL After More Than 12 Years in Space - Claret, Arnaud, Laurent, Philippe,Sauvageon, Aymeric,Savchenko, Volodymyr (2015-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015ITNS...62.2784C Ephemeris, orbital decay, and masses of ten eclipsing high-mass X-ray binaries - Falanga, M., Bozzo, E.,Lutovinov, A.,Bonnet-Bidaud, J. M.,Fetisova, Y.,Puls, J. (2015-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015A&A...577A.130F Extreme relativistic electron fluxes in the Earths outer radiation belt: Analysis of INTEGRAL IREM data - Meredith, Nigel P., Horne, Richard B.,Sandberg, Ingmar,Papadimitriou, Constantinos,Evans, Hugh D. R. (2017-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017SpWea..15..917M Galactic survey of ⁴⁴Ti sources with the IBIS telescope onboard INTEGRAL - Tsygankov, Sergey S., Krivonos, Roman A.,Lutovinov, Alexander A.,Revnivtsev, Mikhail G.,Churazov, Eugene M.,Sunyaev, Rashid A.,Grebenev, Sergey A. (2016-06-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016MNRAS.458.3411T Gamma-Ray Emission of ⁶⁰Fe and ²⁶Al Radioactivity in Our Galaxy - Wang, W., Siegert, T.,Dai, Z. G.,Diehl, R.,Greiner, J.,Heger, A.,Krause, M.,Lang, M.,Pleintinger, M. M. M.,Zhang, X. L. (2020-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020ApJ...889..169W Gamma-ray spectroscopy of positron annihilation in the Milky Way - Siegert, Thomas, Diehl, Roland,Khachatryan, Gerasim,Krause, Martin G. H.,Guglielmetti, Fabrizia,Greiner, Jochen,Strong, Andrew W.,Zhang, Xiaoling (2016-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016A&A...586A..84S Hard-X-ray emission lines from the decay of ⁴⁴Ti in the remnant of supernova 1987A - Grebenev, S. A., Lutovinov, A. A.,Tsygankov, S. S.,Winkler, C. (2012-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012Natur.490..373G Highly absorbed X-ray binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud - Novara, G., La Palombara, N.,Mereghetti, S.,Haberl, F.,Coe, M.,Filipovic, M.,Udalski, A.,Paizis, A.,Pietsch, W.,Sturm, R.,Gilfanov, M.,Tiengo, A.,Payne, J.,Smits, D.,de Horta, A. (2011-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011A&A...532A.153N In-depth study of long-term variability in the X-ray emission of the Be/X-ray binary system AX J0049.4-7323 - Ducci, L., Romano, P.,Malacaria, C.,Ji, L.,Bozzo, E.,Santangelo, A. (2018-06-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018A&A...614A..34D INTEGRAL 11-year hard X-ray survey above 100 keV - Krivonos, R., Tsygankov, S.,Lutovinov, A.,Revnivtsev, M.,Churazov, E.,Sunyaev, R. (2015-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015MNRAS.448.3766K INTEGRAL deep observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud - Coe, M. J., Bird, A. J.,Buckley, D. A. H.,Corbet, R. H. D.,Dean, A. J.,Finger, M.,Galache, J. L.,Haberl, F.,McBride, V. A.,Negueruela, I.,Schurch, M.,Townsend, L. J.,Udalski, A.,Wilms, J.,Zezas, A. (2010-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010MNRAS.406.2533C INTEGRAL/IBIS 7-year All-Sky Hard X-Ray Survey. II. Catalog of sources - Krivonos, R., Tsygankov, S.,Revnivtsev, M.,Grebenev, S.,Churazov, E.,Sunyaev, R. (2010-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010A&A...523A..61K INTEGRAL/IBIS 7-year All-Sky Hard X-ray Survey. I. Image reconstruction - Krivonos, R., Revnivtsev, M.,Tsygankov, S.,Sazonov, S.,Vikhlinin, A.,Pavlinsky, M.,Churazov, E.,Sunyaev, R. (2010-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010A&A...519A.107K INTEGRAL/IBIS deep extragalactic survey: M81, LMC and 3C 273/Coma fields - Mereminskiy, Ilya A., Krivonos, Roman A.,Lutovinov, Alexander A.,Sazonov, Sergey Yu.,Revnivtsev, Mikhail G.,Sunyaev, Rashid A. (2016-06-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016MNRAS.459..140M INTEGRAL/SPI {$gamma$}-ray line spectroscopy. Response and background characteristics - Diehl, Roland, Siegert, Thomas,Greiner, Jochen,Krause, Martin,Kretschmer, Karsten,Lang, Michael,Pleintinger, Moritz,Strong, Andrew W.,Weinberger, Christoph,Zhang, Xiaoling (2018-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018A&A...611A..12D Kinematics of massive star ejecta in the Milky Way as traced by ²⁶Al - Kretschmer, Karsten, Diehl, Roland,Krause, Martin,Burkert, Andreas,Fierlinger, Katharina,Gerhard, Ortwin,Greiner, Jochen,Wang, Wei (2013-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013A&A...559A..99K Leptonic origin of the 100 MeV γ-ray emission from the Galactic centre - Malyshev, D., Chernyakova, M.,Neronov, A.,Walter, R. (2015-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015A&A...582A..11M Luminosity function of high-mass X-ray binaries and anisotropy in the distribution of active galactic nuclei toward the Large Magellanic Cloud - Lutovinov, A. A., Grebenev, S. A.,Tsygankov, S. S. (2012-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012AstL...38..492L New hard X-ray sources discovered in the ongoing INTEGRAL Galactic plane survey after 14 yr of observations - Krivonos, Roman A., Tsygankov, Sergey S.,Mereminskiy, Ilya A.,Lutovinov, Alexander A.,Sazonov, Sergey Yu.,Sunyaev, Rashid A. (2017-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017MNRAS.470..512K On the Morphology of the Electron-Positron Annihilation Emission as Seen by Spi/integral - Bouchet, L., Roques, J. P.,Jourdain, E. (2010-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010ApJ...720.1772B Progressive steepening of the SNR RX J1713.7-3946 X-ray spectrum from XMM-Newton to INTEGRAL - Kuznetsova, Ekaterina, Krivonos, Roman,Churazov, Eugene,Lyskova, Natalia,Lutovinov, Alexander (2019-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019MNRAS.489.1828K Reflection in Seyfert galaxies and the unified model of AGN - Ricci, C., Walter, R.,Courvoisier, T. J. -L.,Paltani, S. (2011-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011A&A...532A.102R Search for 511 keV emission in satellite galaxies of the Milky Way with INTEGRAL/SPI - Siegert, Thomas, Diehl, Roland,Vincent, Aaron C.,Guglielmetti, Fabrizia,Krause, Martin G. H.,Boehm, Celine (2016-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016A&A...595A..25S Spatial clustering and halo occupation distribution modelling of local AGN via cross-correlation measurements with 2MASS galaxies - Krumpe, Mirko, Miyaji, Takamitsu,Coil, Alison L.,Aceves, Hector (2018-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018MNRAS.474.1773K ²⁶Al gamma rays from the Galaxy with INTEGRAL/SPI - Pleintinger, Moritz M. M., Diehl, Roland,Siegert, Thomas,Greiner, Jochen,Krause, Martin G. H. (2023-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2023A&A...672A..53P Swift J045106.8-694803: a highly magnetized neutron star in the Large Magellanic Cloud - Klus, H., Bartlett, E. S.,Bird, A. J.,Coe, M.,Corbet, R. H. D.,Udalski, A. (2013-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013MNRAS.428.3607K The catalog of variable sources detected by INTEGRAL. I. Catalog and techniques - Telezhinsky, I., Eckert, D.,Savchenko, V.,Neronov, A.,Produit, N.,Courvoisier, T. J. -L. (2010-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010A&A...522A..68T The first GRB survey of the IBIS/PICsIT archive - Bianchin, V., Mereghetti, S.,Guidorzi, C.,Foschini, L.,Vianello, G.,Malaguti, G.,Di Cocco, G.,Gianotti, F.,Schiavone, F. (2011-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011A&A...536A..46B The Galactic Bulge Diffuse Emission in Broadband X-Rays with NuSTAR - Perez, Kerstin, Krivonos, Roman,Wik, Daniel R. (2019-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019ApJ...884..153P The Galactic ²⁶Al Emission Map as Revealed by INTEGRAL SPI - Bouchet, Laurent, Jourdain, Elisabeth,Roques, Jean-Pierre (2015-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015ApJ...801..142B The IBIS Soft Gamma-Ray Sky after 1000 Integral Orbits - Bird, A. J., Bazzano, A.,Malizia, A.,Fiocchi, M.,Sguera, V.,Bassani, L.,Hill, A. B.,Ubertini, P.,Winkler, C. (2016-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016ApJS..223...15B The INTEGRAL/IBIS AGN catalogue: an update - Malizia, A., Landi, R.,Molina, M.,Bassani, L.,Bazzano, A.,Bird, A. J.,Ubertini, P. (2016-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016MNRAS.460...19M The INTEGRAL/IBIS AGN catalogue - I. X-ray absorption properties versus optical classification - Malizia, A., Bassani, L.,Bazzano, A.,Bird, A. J.,Masetti, N.,Panessa, F.,Stephen, J. B.,Ubertini, P. (2012-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012MNRAS.426.1750M The Magellanic Bridge: evidence for a population of X-ray binaries - McBride, V. A., Bird, A. J.,Coe, M. J.,Townsend, L. J.,Corbet, R. H. D.,Haberl, F. (2010-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010MNRAS.403..709M The orbital solution and spectral classification of the high-mass X-ray binary IGR J01054-7253 in the Small Magellanic Cloud - Townsend, L. J., Coe, M. J.,Corbet, R. H. D.,McBride, V. A.,Hill, A. B.,Bird, A. J.,Schurch, M. P. E.,Haberl, F.,Sturm, R.,Pathak, D.,van Soelen, B.,Bartlett, E. S.,Drave, S. P.,Udalski, A. (2011-01-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011MNRAS.410.1813T The spectral catalogue of INTEGRAL gamma-ray bursts. results of the joint IBIS/SPI spectral analysis - Bosnjak, Z., Gotz, D.,Bouchet, L.,Schanne, S.,Cordier, B. (2014-01-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014A&A...561A..25B Time Evolution of Flares in GRB 130925A: Jet Precession in a Black Hole Accretion System - Hou, Shu-Jin, Liu, Tong,Gu, Wei-Min,Lin, Da-Bin,Sun, Mou-Yuan,Wu, Xue-Feng,Lu, Ju-Fu (2014-01-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014ApJ...781L..19H Timing properties of gamma-ray bursts detected by SPI-ACS detector onboard INTEGRAL - Savchenko, V., Neronov, A.,Courvoisier, T. J. -L. (2012-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012A&A...541A.122S Type I X-ray Bursts Detected by the JEM-X Telescope Onboard the INTEGRAL Observatory in 2003-2015 - Chelovekov, I. V., Grebenev, S. A.,Mereminskiy, I. A.,Prosvetov, A. V. (2017-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017AstL...43..781C Unveiling the nature of INTEGRAL objects through optical spectroscopy. X. A new multi-year, multi-observatory campaign - Masetti, N., Parisi, P.,Palazzi, E.,Jimenez-Bailon, E.,Chavushyan, V.,McBride, V.,Rojas, A. F.,Steward, L.,Bassani, L.,Bazzano, A.,Bird, A. J.,Charles, P. A.,Galaz, G.,Landi, R.,Malizia, A.,Mason, E.,Minniti, D.,Morelli, L.,Schiavone, F.,Stephen, J. B.,Ubertini, P. (2013-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013A&A...556A.120M VerticaVertical position of the Sun with gamma-rays - Siegert, Thomas, (2019-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...632L...1S Water megamaser emission in hard X-ray selected AGN - Panessa, F., Castangia, P.,Malizia, A.,Bassani, L.,Tarchi, A.,Bazzano, A.,Ubertini, P. (2020-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020A&A...641A.162P X-ray absorption in INTEGRAL active galactic nuclei. Host galaxy inclination - Malizia, A., Bassani, L.,Stephen, J. B.,Bazzano, A.,Ubertini, P. (2020-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020A&A...639A...5M
Temporal Coverage	2008-11-18T18:54:13Z / 2009-06-26T00:13:48Z
Version	1.0
Mission Description	The INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) mission, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) on October 17, 2002, was designed to study high-energy phenomena in the universe. INTEGRAL was operating until february 2025 and it was equipped with three high-energy instruments: the Imager on Board the INTEGRAL Satellite (IBIS), the Spectrometer on INTEGRAL (SPI), and the JEM-X (Joint European Monitor for X-rays). Its Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) provided optical V-band magnitude measurements, complementing the high-energy observations.
Creator Contact	https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/integral/helpdesk
Date Published	2025-03-25T09:54:35Z
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Key Programme, 2025, 'AO-6 Key Programme 5: SMC/47 Tuc', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-x1appj6