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Name: The mysterious X-ray emission and optical flash of Zeta Lyrae
Published: 2013-09-21T00:00:00Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo

Proposal ID	069037
Title	The mysterious X-ray emission and optical flash of Zeta Lyrae
Download Data Associated to the proposal	https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0690370101 https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0690370201
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-m1oktfs
Principal Investigator, PI	Dr Thomas Maccarone
Abstract	Zeta Lyrae is a nearby (d=47 pc) bright (V=4.1) star which has shown an strongoptical flash and which shows strong X-ray emission. The system is asingle-lined spectroscopic binary. While ordinarily, these properties could allbe explained by coronal activity from either the primary or the secondary, theprimary here is an A star, and the secondary is both unseen, and has a mass ofat least 0.8 solar masses. The source is not detected in the radio down to about40 microJy (about 20 times below the flux density expected for a stellar massblack hole at this X-ray luminosity). We propose XMM observations to test ideasfor the origin of the X-ray emission and hopefully to explain the optical flashas well.
Publications	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 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 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	2012-05-12T05:14:20Z/2012-09-02T07:15:42Z
Version	21.51_20241115_1113
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	2013-09-21T00:00:00Z
Last Update	2026-07-09
Keywords	"coronal activity", "flux density", "optical flash", "test ideas", "solar masses", "pc bright", "stellar mass blackhole", "XMM", "xray emission", "zeta lyrae", "xray luminosity"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Dr Thomas Maccarone, 2013, 'The mysterious X-ray emission and optical flash of Zeta Lyrae', 21.51_20241115_1113, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-m1oktfs
Rights	Data hosted in the ESA Space Science Archives are distributed under the CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license.