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Name: A New Class of X-ray Transients? Highly Luminous XMM Transients
Published: 2015-01-20T23:00:00Z

Proposal ID	072183
Title	A New Class of X-ray Transients? Highly Luminous XMM Transients
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-970668r
Principal Investigator, PI	Dr Richard Mushotzky
Abstract	Finding X-ray counterparts to future LIGO/Virgo events requires an understandingof the transient sky at low redshift. We have identified 7 nearby (D < 300 Mpc)transients in the XMM-Newton Slew Survey Catalog via a systematic comparisonwith the ROSAT All Sky Survey. These sources have unusual properties and so aredifficult to characterize. They are highly luminous (>1e42 erg/s), extremelyvariable, associated with galaxies within 300 Mpc, and lack optical AGNsignatures. We propose to observe these seven targets with XMM-Newton in anattempt to identify their nature. The sources could prove to be tidal disruptionevents, GRB afterglows, very high energy ULXs, or some new class. This is thefirst study of X-ray transients within the LIGO/Virgo horizon.
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 Multiwavelength Study of an X-Ray Tidal Disruption Event Candidate in NGC 5092 \|Li Dongyue Saxton R. D. et al. \| ApJ \| 891-121 \| 2020 \| 2020ApJ...891..121L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020ApJ...891..121L Infrared colours and spectral energy distributions of hard X-ray selected obscured and Compton-thick active galactic nuclei \|Kilerci Eser Ece Goto T. et al. \| MNRAS \| 494-5793 \| 2020 \| 2020MNRAS.494.5793K \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.494.5793K 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 Search for Young Stellar Objects within 4XMM-DR13 Using CatBoost and SPE \|Ma Xiangyao Zhang Yanxia et al. \| AJ \| 168-210 \| 2024 \| 2024AJ....168..210M \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024AJ....168..210M 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	2013-09-10T22:55:12Z/2013-12-21T08:48:24Z
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	2015-01-20T23:00:00Z
Last Update	2026-03-04
Keywords	"systematic comparison", "optical agn signatures", "energy ulxs", "mpc transients", "luminous xmm transients", "XMM-Newton", "sky survey", "xmm newton", "virgo events", "future ligo", "tidal disruption events", "finding xray counterparts", "ROSAT", "1e42 erg", "XMM", "xray transients", "low redshift", "virgo horizon", "transient sky", "grb afterglows"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Dr Richard Mushotzky, 2015, 'A New Class of X-ray Transients? Highly Luminous XMM Transients', 17.56_20190403_1200, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-970668r