Collisions between stellar winds and their gaseous environments play animportant role in many areas of astrophysics. We propose to utilize XMM-Newtonto study the X-ray aurora produced by the collision of the solar wind with theneutral coma around the largest remaining fragment of comet SW3. Its extremelyclose encounter in May 2006 provides the opportunity to spatially resolve thedeceleration and depletion of the solar wind ions in the coma. In combinationwith laboratory atomic data, this provides a quantitative handle on theconditions throughout the interaction zone, which will greatly improve ourunderstanding of the interaction of the solar wind with solar system objects andin more general, of physical processes in wind-environment collisions.
Publications
Identifying XMM-Newton observations affected by solar wind charge exchange - Part II |Carter, J. A., Sembay, S., | A&A | 527-115 | 2011 | 2011A&A...527A.115C | http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011A&A...527A.115C
The cosmological analysis of X-ray cluster surveys - II. Application of the CR-HR method to the XMM archive |Clerc, N., Sadibekova, T., et al. | MNRAS | 423-3561 | 2012 | 2012MNRAS.423.3561C | http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012MNRAS.423.3561C
SPIDERS: the spectroscopic follow-up of X-ray selected clusters of galaxies in SDSS-IV |Clerc, N., Merloni, A., et al. | MNRAS | 463-4490 | 2016 | 2016MNRAS.463.4490C | http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016MNRAS.463.4490C
X-ray properties of the X-CLASS-redMaPPer galaxy cluster sample: the luminosity-temperature relation |Molham, Mona, Clerc, Nicolas, et al. | MNRAS | 494-161 | 2020 | 2020MNRAS.494..161M | http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.494..161M
Multiwavelength classification of X-ray selected galaxy cluster candidates using convolutional neural networks |Kosiba, Matej, Lieu, Maggie, et al. | MNRAS | 496-4141 | 2020 | 2020MNRAS.496.4141K | http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.496.4141K
SPIDERS: overview of the X-ray galaxy cluster follow-up and the final spectroscopic data release |Clerc, N., Kirkpatrick, C. C., et al. | MNRAS | 497-3976 | 2020 | 2020MNRAS.497.3976C | http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.497.3976C
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
Instrument
EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2
Temporal Coverage
2006-05-13T22:31:31Z/2006-05-14T10:14:45Z
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.
European Space Agency, Dr Konrad Dennerl, 2007, 'Comet SW3 and XMM-Newton: an extremely close encounter with a flying laboratory', 17.56_20190403_1200, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-7hc9yzb
