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Name: Is there a Black Hole in any of the INTEGRAL HMXBs?
Published: 2015-10-07T22:00:00Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo

Proposal ID	074147
Title	Is there a Black Hole in any of the INTEGRAL HMXBs?
Download Data Associated to the proposal	https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0741470201
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-zg8m5gj
Principal Investigator, PI	Dr John Tomsick
Abstract	Through its hard X-ray survey of the Galactic Plane, INTEGRAL has uncoveredlarge numbers of HMXBs, and many of them have not been well-studied to date. Wepropose to observe two INTEGRAL HMXBs that have not previously shown signaturesof having a neutron star: IGR J18214-1318 and IGR J08262-3736. With XMM-Newtonand NuSTAR, we will search for such signatures (pulsations, cyclotron lines,exponential cutoffs with e-folding energies below ~20 keV). If these featuresare lacking and if the source instead has a power-law that extends to the top ofthe NuSTAR bandpass, this would be an excellent black hole candidate andmotivation would be very strong for follow-up optical or IR spectroscopy todetermine the mass of the compact object.
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 An XMM-Newton and NuSTAR Study of IGR J18214-1318: A Non-pulsating High-mass X-Ray Binary with a Neutron Star \|Fornasini Francesca M. Tomsick John A. et al. \| ApJ \| 841-35 \| 2017 \| 2017ApJ...841...35F \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017ApJ...841...35F Swift unveils the orbital period of IGR J18214-1318 \|Cusumano G. DAu00ec A. et al. \| MNRAS \| 498-2750 \| 2020 \| 2020MNRAS.498.2750C \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020MNRAS.498.2750C 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 The Faint the Poor and the Steady: studies of low-luminosity metal-poor and non-pulsating populations of high-mass X-ray binaries \|Fornasini Francesca Maria \| PhDT \| 0-134 \| 2016 \| 2016PhDT.......134F \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016PhDT.......134F 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	2014-09-18T02:11:03Z/2014-09-18T09:57:43Z
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	2015-10-07T22:00:00Z
Last Update	2026-06-19
Keywords	"neutron star", "power law", "cyclotron lines", "XMM-Newton", "igr j08262 3736", "galactic plane", "ir spectroscopy", "blackhole candidate", "integral hmxbs", "exponential cutoffs", "xmm newton", "hard xray survey", "compact object", "folding energies", "nustar bandpass", "integral hmxbs ?.", "igr j18214 1318", "XMM", "NuSTAR", "signatures pulsations"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Dr John Tomsick, 2015, 'Is there a Black Hole in any of the INTEGRAL HMXBs?', 21.51_20241115_1113, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-zg8m5gj
Rights	Data hosted in the ESA Space Science Archives are distributed under the CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license.