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Name: A Magnetar and Friends in the Galactic Super Star Cluster Westerlund 1
Published: 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Proposal ID	040434
Title	A Magnetar and Friends in the Galactic Super Star Cluster Westerlund 1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-bc7d0eu
Principal Investigator, PI	Dr Michael Muno
Abstract	We are requesting a single XMM observation (45 ks) to determine whether the 10.6s X-ray pulsar that we recently discovered in the Galactic super star clusterWesterlund 1 is a magnetar. The pulsar is notable because, as a member ofWesterlund 1, we know that the initial mass of the pulsar.s progenitor was atleast 40 Msun. Measuring the B-field strength would reveal the role of magneticfields in allowing 30 Msun stars to lose 95% of their mass and become neutronstars. Westerlund 1 also may harbor 10 more compact objects that would bedetectable with XMM. Discovering these would add significantly to the handful ofobservational limits on the mapping between initial stellar masses and thecompact objects they leave behind.
Publications	The 2006 Outburst of the Magnetar CXOU J164710.2 - 455216 \|Woods, Peter M., Kaspi, Victoria M., et al. \| ApJ \| 726-37 \| 2011 \| 2011ApJ...726...37W \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011ApJ...726...37W 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 Diffuse thermal X-ray emission in the core of the young massive cluster Westerlund 1 \|Kavanagh, P. J., Norci, L., \| NewA \| 16-461 \| 2011 \| 2011NewA...16..461K \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011NewA...16..461K The Post-Burst Awakening of the Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar in Westerlund 1 \|Israel, G. L., Campana, S., et al. \| ApJ \| 664-448 \| 2007 \| 2007ApJ...664..448I \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2007ApJ...664..448I Resonant Cyclotron Scattering in Magnetars. Emission \|Rea, N., Zane, S., et al. \| ApJ \| 686-1245 \| 2008 \| 2008ApJ...686.1245R \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2008ApJ...686.1245R 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 Spectral and Timing Properties of the Magnetar CXOU J164710.2-455216 \|An, Hongjun, Kaspi, Victoria M., et al. \| ApJ \| 763-82 \| 2013 \| 2013ApJ...763...82A \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013ApJ...763...82A Unifying the observational diversity of isolated neutron stars via magneto-thermal evolution models \|Vigano, D., Rea, N., et al. \| MNRAS \| 434-123 \| 2013 \| 2013MNRAS.434..123V \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013MNRAS.434..123V 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 Pulse phase-coherent timing and spectroscopy of CXOU J164710.2-45521 outbursts \|Rodriguez Castillo, Guillermo A., Israel, Gian Luca, et al. \| MNRAS \| 441-1305 \| 2014 \| 2014MNRAS.441.1305R \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014MNRAS.441.1305R 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 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 X-Ray Perspective of the Twisted Magnetospheres of Magnetars \|Weng, Shan-Shan, Gogus, Ersin, et al. \| ApJ \| 805-81 \| 2015 \| 2015ApJ...805...81W \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015ApJ...805...81W Suzaku Observation of the Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar CXOU J164710.2--455216 \|Naik, Sachindra, Dotani, Tadayasu, et al. \| PASJ \| 60-237 \| 2008 \| 2008PASJ...60..237N \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2008PASJ...60..237N Sunyaev-Zel.dovich 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 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 Magnetic fields in neutron stars \|Vigano, Daniele, \| PhDT \| 0-7 \| 2013 \| 2013PhDT.........7V \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013PhDT.........7V Exciting the magnetosphere of the magnetar CXOU J164710.2-455216 in Westerlund 1 \|Muno, M. P., Gaensler, B. M., et al. \| MNRAS \| 378-44 \| 2007 \| 2007MNRAS.378L..44M \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2007MNRAS.378L..44M 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 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 A systematic study of soft X-ray pulse profiles of magnetars in quiescence \|Hu, Chin-Ping, Ng, C.-Y., \| MNRAS \| 485-4274 \| 2019 \| 2019MNRAS.485.4274H \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019MNRAS.485.4274H The multi-outburst activity of the magnetar in Westerlund I \|Borghese, A., Rea, N., et al. \| MNRAS \| 484-2931 \| 2019 \| 2019MNRAS.484.2931B \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019MNRAS.484.2931B 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 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 Correlation Study of Temporal and Emission Properties of Quiescent Magnetars \|Seo, Jiwoo, Lee, Jaewon, \| JKAS \| 56-41 \| 2023 \| 2023JKAS...56...41S \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2023JKAS...56...41S The common fundamental plane of X-ray emissions from pulsars and magnetars in quiescence \|Chu, Che-Yen, Chang, Hsiang-Kuang, \| MNRAS \| 526-1287 \| 2023 \| 2023MNRAS.526.1287C \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2023MNRAS.526.1287C From Active Stars to Black Holes: A Discovery Tool for Galactic X-Ray Sources \|Rodriguez, Antonio C., \| PASP \| 136-054201 \| 2024 \| 2024PASP..136e4201R \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024PASP..136e4201R 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	2006-09-16T18:36:42Z/2006-09-17T07:55:10Z
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	2007-10-18T00:00:00Z
Keywords	"initial mass", "neutron stars", "compact objects", "magnetic fields", "XMM", "single xmm", "xray pulsar", "field strength", "lose 95", "msun stars", "initial stellar masses"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Dr Michael Muno, 2007, 'A Magnetar and Friends in the Galactic Super Star Cluster Westerlund 1', 17.56_20190403_1200, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-bc7d0eu