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Name: Maintaining the Ephemeris of the Geminga Pulsar Until GLAST
Published: 2008-03-29T00:00:00Z

Proposal ID	040026
Title	Maintaining the Ephemeris of the Geminga Pulsar Until GLAST
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-i3cgdwb
Principal Investigator, PI	Prof Jules Halpern
Abstract	The Geminga pulsar is unique among gamma-ray pulsars in having a precise andcontinuous, phase-connected ephemeris from 1973 up to the present. Since thedemise of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory in June 2000, the only practicalmethod of maintaining Gemingas ephemeris is with X-ray observations. To extendour continuing XMM-Newton program on Geminga, we now request short observationstwice per year until 2007, when GLAST and/or AGILE will resume the gamma-raytiming. The principal scientific need for a phase-connected ephemeris is toprovide an absolute phase reference for ground-based observations, and tomonitor glitch activity such as that which recurred in 2002.
Publications	New X-ray Observations of the Geminga Pulsar Wind Nebula \|Pavlov George G. Bhattacharyya Sudip \| ApJ \| 715-66 \| 2010 \| 2010ApJ...715...66P \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010ApJ...715...66P Narrow absorption features in the co-added XMM-Newton RGS spectra of isolated neutron stars \|Hohle M. M. Haberl F. et al. \| MNRAS \| 419-1525 \| 2012 \| 2012MNRAS.419.1525H \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012MNRAS.419.1525H The XMM Cluster Survey: optical analysis methodology and the first data release \|Mehrtens Nicola Romer A. Kathy et al. \| MNRAS \| 423-1024 \| 2012 \| 2012MNRAS.423.1024M \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012MNRAS.423.1024M High-Resolution Timing Observations of Spin-Powered Pulsars with the AGILE Gamma-Ray Telescope \|Pellizzoni A. Pilia M. et al. \| ApJ \| 691-1618 \| 2009 \| 2009ApJ...691.1618P \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2009ApJ...691.1618P An XMM-Newton Survey of the Soft X-ray Background. I. The O VII and O VIII Lines Between l = 120 and l = 240 \|Henley David B. Shelton Robin L. \| ApJS \| 187-388 \| 2010 \| 2010ApJS..187..388H \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010ApJS..187..388H 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 The XMM Cluster Survey: X-ray analysis methodology \|Lloyd-Davies E. J. Romer A. Kathy et al. \| MNRAS \| 418-14 \| 2011 \| 2011MNRAS.418...14L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011MNRAS.418...14L 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 Classification of X-Ray Sources in the XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog \|Lin Dacheng Webb Natalie A. \| ApJ \| 756-27 \| 2012 \| 2012ApJ...756...27L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012ApJ...756...27L An XMM-Newton Survey of the Soft X-Ray Background. II. An All-Sky Catalog of Diffuse O VII and O VIII Emission Intensities \|Henley David B. Shelton Robin L. \| ApJS \| 202-14 \| 2012 \| 2012ApJS..202...14H \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012ApJS..202...14H Automatic Classification of Time-variable X-Ray Sources \|Lo Kitty K. Farrell Sean et al. \| ApJ \| 786-20 \| 2014 \| 2014ApJ...786...20L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014ApJ...786...20L A Broadband X-Ray Study of the Geminga Pulsar with NuSTAR and XMM-Newton \|Mori Kaya Gotthelf Eric V. et al. \| ApJ \| 793-88 \| 2014 \| 2014ApJ...793...88M \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014ApJ...793...88M The diversity of quasars unified by accretion and orientation \|Shen Yue Ho Luis C. \| Natur \| 513-210 \| 2014 \| 2014Natur.513..210S \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014Natur.513..210S NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observations of Luminous Heavily Obscured WISE-selected Quasars at z ~ 2 \|Stern D. Lansbury G. B. et al. \| ApJ \| 794-102 \| 2014 \| 2014ApJ...794..102S \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014ApJ...794..102S 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 Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect or not? Detecting the main foreground effect of most galaxy clusters \|Xiao Weike Chen Chen et al. \| MNRAS \| 432-41 \| 2013 \| 2013MNRAS.432L..41X \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013MNRAS.432L..41X The Interaction of the Fermi Bubbles with the Milky Ways Hot Gas Halo \|Miller Matthew J. Bregman Joel N. \| ApJ \| 829-9 \| 2016 \| 2016ApJ...829....9M \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016ApJ...829....9M 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 Anisotropy of the galaxy cluster X-ray luminosity-temperature relation \|Migkas Konstantinos Reiprich Thomas H. \| A&A \| 611-50 \| 2018 \| 2018A&A...611A..50M \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018A&A...611A..50M Imaging Plasma Density Structures in the Soft X-Rays Generated by Solar Wind Charge Exchange with Neutrals \|Sibeck David G. Allen R. et al. \| SSRv \| 214-79 \| 2018 \| 2018SSRv..214...79S \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018SSRv..214...79S The XMM Cluster Survey: Present status and latest results \|Viana P. T. P. Mehrtens N. et al. \| AN \| 334-462 \| 2013 \| 2013AN....334..462V \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013AN....334..462V Constraining the Magnetic Field in the TeV Halo of Geminga with X-Ray Observations \|Liu Ruo-Yu Ge Chong et al. \| ApJ \| 875-149 \| 2019 \| 2019ApJ...875..149L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019ApJ...875..149L Testing emergent gravity on galaxy cluster scales \|Tamosiunas Andrius Bacon David et al. \| JCAP \| 5-53 \| 2019 \| 2019JCAP...05..053T \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019JCAP...05..053T Chandra Follow-up of the SDSS DR8 Redmapper Catalog Using the MATCha Pipeline \|Hollowood Devon L. Jeltema Tesla et al. \| ApJS \| 244-22 \| 2019 \| 2019ApJS..244...22H \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019ApJS..244...22H Stellar mass as a galaxy cluster mass proxy: application to the Dark Energy Survey redMaPPer clusters \|Palmese A. Annis J. et al. \| MNRAS \| 493-4591 \| 2020 \| 2020MNRAS.493.4591P \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.493.4591P An X-Ray- and SZ-bright Diffuse Source toward M31: A Local Hot Bridge \|Qu Zhijie Huang Rui et al. \| ApJ \| 907-14 \| 2021 \| 2021ApJ...907...14Q \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2021ApJ...907...14Q 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 The Solar Cycle Temporal Variation of the Solar Wind Charge Exchange X-Ray Lines \|Qu Zhijie Koutroumpa Dimitra et al. \| ApJ \| 930-21 \| 2022 \| 2022ApJ...930...21Q \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2022ApJ...930...21Q The XMM-Newton Line Emission Analysis Program (X-LEAP). I. Emission-line Survey of O VII O VIII and Fe L-shell Transitions \|Pan Zeyang Qu Zhijie et al. \| ApJS \| 271-62 \| 2024 \| 2024ApJS..271...62P \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024ApJS..271...62P 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 Gemingas pulsar halo: An X-ray view \|Manconi Silvia Woo Jooyun et al. \| A&A \| 689-A326 \| 2024 \| 2024A&A...689A.326M \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024A&A...689A.326M New 511 keV Line Data Provide Strongest sub-GeV Dark Matter Constraints \|De la Torre Luque Pedro Balaji Shyam \| ApJ \| 973-L6 \| 2024 \| 2024ApJ...973L...6D \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024ApJ...973L...6D
Instrument	EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2
Temporal Coverage	2006-10-02T07:04:22Z/2007-03-11T18:16:35Z
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	2008-03-29T00:00:00Z
Last Update	2025-08-04
Keywords	"XMM", "gamma ray", "geminga pulsar", "XMM-Newton", "glitch activity", "maintaining geminga", "practical method", "phase connected ephemeris", "principal scientific", "gamma ray pulsars", "absolute phase reference"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Prof Jules Halpern, 2008, 'Maintaining the Ephemeris of the Geminga Pulsar Until GLAST', 17.56_20190403_1200, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-i3cgdwb