A dataset provided by the European Space Agency

Name: Monitoring of Be X-ray binaries in the SMC
Published: 2017-04-06T22:00:00Z

Proposal ID	076405
Title	Monitoring of Be X-ray binaries in the SMC
Download Data Associated to the proposal	https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0764050101 https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0764050201
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-ywrtawg
Principal Investigator, PI	Dr Richard Sturm
Abstract	The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) hosts an extraordinary high number of nearlyone hundred known high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), 63 with known X-raypulsations, indicating the spin of the neutron star (NS). Since most Be/X-raybinaries show strong X-ray outbursts, they were detected rather incidentally byimaging X-ray instruments and the evolution of their high-energy emission duringoutburst is still not known well. Within the field of view (FoV) of XMM-Newtonup to 14 known BeXRB pulsars in the SMC can be observed simultaneously. Wepropose a monitoring with 14 observations over 52 days of a region with highdensity of HMXBs in the SMC, to study the evolution of the X-ray spectrum andthe pulse profiles during outbursts with time and luminosity.
Publications	Identification of AGN in the XMM-Newton X-ray survey of the SMC \|Maitra Chandreyee Haberl Frank et al. \| A&A \| 622-29 \| 2019 \| 2019A&A...622A..29M \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...622A..29M 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 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	2015-10-26T03:31:34Z/2016-03-24T17:51:49Z
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	2017-04-06T22:00:00Z
Last Update	2025-01-27
Keywords	"neutron star ns", "xray binary", "imaging xray instruments", "xmm newton", "XMM-Newton", "xray pulsations", "pulse profiles", "energy emission", "x ray binary", "bexrb pulsars", "xray outburst", "XMM", "xray spectrum"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Dr Richard Sturm, 2017, 'Monitoring of Be X-ray binaries in the SMC', 17.56_20190403_1200, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-ywrtawg