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Name: Observing the X-ray light echo from the giant flare of Cas A's point source
Published: 2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

Proposal ID	040021
Title	Observing the X-ray light echo from the giant flare of Cas As point source
Download Data Associated to the proposal	https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0400210101
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-xytcrs6
Principal Investigator, PI	Dr Jacco Vink
Abstract	One of the most interesting discoveries of the Spitzer telescope is theexistence of a dust clouds near the supernova remnant Cas A that appear to movewith a velocity close to the speed of light. The likely explanation is thatthese dust clouds are not moving, but that a very luminous light flash isbriefly lighting up high density dust clouds. The probable origin of the lightflash is a giant flare from the central point source of Cas A, similar to flarefrom soft gamma ray repeaters. We propose to obtain X-ray images of the dustclouds to look for Fe-K fluorescence emission at 6.4~keV, which would establishthat the origin of the infrared emission is indeed a bright X-ray flare. This inturn would establish that the point source is a magnetar.
Publications	An All-Sky Atlas of Radio/X-ray Associations \|Flesch E. \| PASA \| 27-283 \| 2010 \| 2010PASA...27..283F \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010PASA...27..283F Exospheric solar wind charge exchange as seen by XMM-Newton \|Carter J. A. Semba S. \| AN \| 333-313 \| 2012 \| 2012AN....333..313C \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012AN....333..313C Serendipitous UV source catalogues for 10 years of XMM and 5 years of Swift \|Yershov V. N. \| Ap&SS \| 354-97 \| 2014 \| 2014Ap&SS.354...97Y \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014Ap&SS.354...97Y The Million Optical - Radio/X-ray Associations (MORX) Catalogue \|Flesch Eric W. \| PASA \| 33-52 \| 2016 \| 2016PASA...33...52F \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016PASA...33...52F Formation pathway for lonely stripped-envelope supernova progenitors: implications for Cassiopeia A \|Hirai Ryosuke Sato Toshiki et al. \| MNRAS \| 499-1154 \| 2020 \| 2020MNRAS.499.1154H \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.499.1154H Classification of 4XMM-DR9 sources by machine learning \|Zhang Yanxia Zhao Yongheng \| MNRAS \| 503-5263 \| 2021 \| 2021MNRAS.503.5263Z \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2021MNRAS.503.5263Z In-flight calibration of the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope \|Li Xiaobo Li Xufang et al. \| JHEAp \| 27-64 \| 2020 \| 2020JHEAp..27...64L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020JHEAp..27...64L Robust constraints on feebly interacting particles using XMM-Newton \|Luque Pedro De la Torre Balaji Shyam \| PhRvD \| 109-L101305 \| 2024 \| 2024PhRvD.109j1305L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024PhRvD.109j1305L Multimessenger search for electrophilic feebly interacting particles from supernovae \|Luque Pedro De la Torre Balaji Shyam \| PhRvD \| 109-103028 \| 2024 \| 2024PhRvD.109j3028L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024PhRvD.109j3028L Importance of Cosmic-Ray Propagation on Sub-GeV Dark Matter Constraints \|De la Torre Luque Pedro Balaji Shyam \| ApJ \| 968-46 \| 2024 \| 2024ApJ...968...46D \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024ApJ...968...46D
Instrument	EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2
Temporal Coverage	2006-06-18T15:37:20Z/2006-06-19T12:42:37Z
Version	17.56_20190403_1200
Mission Description	The European Space Agencys (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) was launched by an Ariane 504 on December 10th 1999. XMM-Newton is ESAs second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 Science Programme. It carries 3 high throughput X-ray telescopes with an unprecedented effective area, and an optical monitor, the first flown on a X-ray observatory. The large collecting area and ability to make long uninterrupted exposures provide highly sensitive observations. Since Earths atmosphere blocks out all X-rays, only a telescope in space can detect and study celestial X-ray sources. The XMM-Newton mission is helping scientists to solve a number of cosmic mysteries, ranging from the enigmatic black holes to the origins of the Universe itself. Observing time on XMM-Newton is being made available to the scientific community, applying for observational periods on a competitive basis.
Creator Contact	https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xmm-newton-helpdesk
Date Published	2007-07-05T00:00:00Z
Last Update	2025-01-27
Keywords	"density dust clouds", "probable origin", "supernova remnant cas", "dust clouds", "light flash", "infrared emission", "luminous light flash", "spitzer telescope", "bright xray flare", "xray images", "briefly lighting", "giant flare", "xray light echo", "fluorescence emission", "velocity close"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Dr Jacco Vink, 2007, 'Observing the X-ray light echo from the giant flare of Cas A's point source', 17.56_20190403_1200, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-xytcrs6