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Proposal ID 0870003
Obs ID 08700030001
Title TOO observations of SXP 85.4
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DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-kd096dn
Author Coe
Abstract As part of our regular monitoring of the Bar in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with RXTE we have identified a new pulsar with a period of 85s which we have designated as SXP85.4. The discovery of this object was announced in ATel 2813 last August. However, because of the large field of view (FOV) of the PCA we are unable to locate this object to better than ~1 degree. We there need to take advantage of the unique INTEGRAL science capability to locate this object to a few arcmins, and thereby trigger a Swift or XMM follow-up to locate this object. The key role that only INTEGRAL can play is to reduce the positional uncertainty down from the unmanageable ~1 degree to the few arcmins which permits identification.
Publications
Temporal Coverage 2011-05-20T05:01:42Z / 2011-05-21T05:37:51Z
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 2025-03-25T09:54:36Z
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Coe, 2025, 'TOO observations of SXP 85.4', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-kd096dn