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Proposal ID 1120002
Obs ID 11200020001, 11200020002, 11200020003, 11200020004, 11200020005, 11200020006, 11200020007, 11200020008, 11200020009, 11200020010
Title Identifying & understanding the X-ray binary population of the Small Magellanic Cloud
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DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-4kh7r3b
Author Coe
Abstract The Large & Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC & SMC) represent an exceptional opportunity to study the evolution of X-ray binaries (XRB) under very different conditions to those in the Milky Way. The Clouds are close enough for the individual sources to be detected, identified & studied, whilst presenting diverse environments in terms of metallicity and tidal effects. In addition, the population as a whole is possibly greater than the comparable Milky Way population so it provides an invaluable test-bed for accretion physics & binary evolution. An earlier Key Programme covering the SMC produced a wealth of data on persistent and transient systems, plus revealing strong evidence for the emergence of a new XRB population in the western Bridge (the structure linking the LMC to the SMC). We request time to carry out regular monitoring of the SMC to locate new transient pulsar systems and to continue exploring the ~100 known & suspected HMXB systems (precise source location will be achieved using the XMM time). This source location step is critical to unlocking the full potential science of these High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) systems and it enables us to explore stellar and binary evolution in different chemical and tidal environments. Only INTEGRAL has a big enough field of view to be able to carry out this crucial role of monitoring activity across the whole SMC/Bridge region. In this proposal we request 12 x 100ks INTEGRAL observations over a period of 3 months with contemporaneous XMM observations. This intensive monitoring programme will permit us to extend the work started by RXTE (Galache et al., 2008 ApJS 177, 189) and complement the XMM survey of the SMC carried out in 2010 (PI Frank Haberl). We further request that this programme is repeated in the following AO-11 round to maintain the monitoring/exploring programme into the future. All these studies will be supported by OGLE IV monitoring of the SMC & Bridge, as well as ground-based specific target follow-ups.
Publications
  • A multiwavelength analysis of a collection of short-duration GRBs observed between 2012 and 2015 - Pandey, S. B., Hu, Y.,Castro-Tirado, Ao J.,Pozanenko, A. S.,Sanchez-Ramirez, R.,Gorosabel, J.,Guziy, S.,Jelinek, M.,Tello, J. C.,Jeong, S.,Oates, S. R.,Zhang, B. -B.,Mazaeva, E. D.,Volnova, A. A.,Minaev, P. Yu,van Eerten, H. J.,Caballero-Garcia, M. D.,Perez-Ramirez, D.,Bremer, M.,Winters, J. -M.,Park, I. H.,Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa,Klose, S.,Moskvitin, A.,Sokolov, V. V.,Sonbas, E.,Ayala, A.,Cepa, J.,Butler, N.,Troja, E.,Chernenko, A. M.,Molkov, S. V.,Volvach, A. E.,Inasaridze, R. Ya,Egamberdiyev, Sh A.,Burkhonov, O.,Reva, I. V.,Polyakov, K. A.,Matkin, A. A.,Ivanov, A. L.,Molotov, I.,Guver, T.,Watson, A. M.,Kutyrev, A.,Lee, W. H.,Fox, O.,Littlejohns, O.,Cucchiara, A.,Gonzalez, J.,Richer, M. G.,Roman-Zuniga, C. G.,Tanvir, N. R.,Bloom, J. S.,Prochaska, J. X.,Gehrels, N.,Moseley, H.,de Diego, J. A.,Ramirez-Ruiz, E.,Klunko, E. V.,Fan, Y.,Zhao, X.,Bai, J.,Wang, Ch,Xin, Y.,Cui, Ch,Tungalag, N.,Peng, Z. -K.,Kumar, Amit,Gupta, Rahul,Aryan, Amar,Kumar, Brajesh,Volvach, L. N.,Lamb, G. P.,Valeev, A. F. (2019-06-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019MNRAS.485.5294P
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Discovery of blue companions to two southern Cepheids: WW Car and FN Vel - Kovtyukh, V., Szabados, L.,Chekhonadskikh, F.,Lemasle, B.,Belik, S. (2015-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015MNRAS.448.3567K
  • 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
  • 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/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
  • Multiwavelength observations of the Be/X-ray binary IGR J01217-7257 (=SXP 2.16) during outburst - Boon, C. M., Bird, A. J.,Coe, M. J.,Corbet, R. H. D.,Evans, P. A.,Kennea, J. A.,Krimm, H. A.,Laycock, S. G. T.,Udalski, A. (2017-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017MNRAS.466.1149B
  • 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
  • SXP 5.05 = IGR J00569-7226: using X-rays to explore the structure of a Be stars circumstellar disc - Coe, M. J., Bartlett, E. S.,Bird, A. J.,Haberl, F.,Kennea, J. A.,McBride, V. A.,Townsend, L. J.,Udalski, A. (2015-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015MNRAS.447.2387C
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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 2014-01-11T00:37:42Z / 2014-12-28T23:06:01Z
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 2025-03-25T09:54:37Z
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Coe, 2025, 'Identifying & understanding the X-ray binary population of the Small Magellanic Cloud', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-4kh7r3b