A dataset provided by the European Space Agency

Name: Understanding two new extreme X-ray sources
Published: 2013-04-10T00:00:00Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo

Proposal ID	067372
Title	Understanding two new extreme X-ray sources
Download Data Associated to the proposal	https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0673720201 https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0673720301 https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0673720401
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-tjsbq9x
Principal Investigator, PI	Dr Christian Motch
Abstract	Our optical identification campaign of hard X-ray sources in the XMM-NewtonGalactic Plane Survey (XGPS) has revealed two exceptional objects. First, sourceXGPS-3 is identified with a heavily absorbed very bright infrared source whichcould be a star as luminous as eta Carina. Second, XGPS-25 has all the featuresexpected from a low-mass X-ray binary whose X-ray emission is strongly shieldedby the accretion disc and if confirmed, would be the first very high inclinationaccretion disc corona known to date. The present proposal aims at obtaining highquality X-ray spectra and time series which will help us to clarify the exactnature of these two objects.
Publications	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 Suzaku observations of two diffuse hard X-ray source regions G22.0+0.0 and G23.5+0.1 \|Yamauchi Shigeo Sumita Mayu \| PASJ \| 68-6 \| 2016 \| 2016PASJ...68S...6Y \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016PASJ...68S...6Y 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 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 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 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	2011-09-11T04:31:56Z/2012-03-21T16:19:09Z
Version	PPS_NOT_AVAILABLE
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	2013-04-10T00:00:00Z
Last Update	2026-07-09
Keywords	"xray sources", "heavily absorbed", "quality xray spectra", "XMM-Newton", "optical identification campaign", "eta carina", "time series", "XMM", "bright infrared source", "hard xray sources", "accretion disc", "xray emission", "source xgps"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Dr Christian Motch, 2013, 'Understanding two new extreme X-ray sources', PPS_NOT_AVAILABLE, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-tjsbq9x
Rights	Data hosted in the ESA Space Science Archives are distributed under the CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license.