| Proposal ID | 092346 |
| Title | Hunting for transitional millisecond pulsars with XMM-Newton, NuSTAR and VLA |
| Download Data Associated to the proposal | https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0923466201 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-dwxsefa |
| Principal Investigator, PI | Dr Arianna Miraval Zanon |
| Abstract | The XMM discovery of a ms pulsar swinging between an accretion-powered (X-ray)and a rotation-powered (radio) pulsar state demonstrated that transitionsbetween the two states can be observed over timescales of a few weeks. Wepropose an XMM, NuSTAR and VLA ToO observation aimed at studying the accretionstate of transitional ms pulsars, detecting X-ray accretion powered pulsations,and characterizing the X-ray variability over three decades in energy.Candidates are restricted to black widows and redbacks, systems that are in anevolutionary phase that makes them good candidates to observe a transition. Enlarging the number of transitional ms pulsars is crucial to test binaryevolution theories, and to study the disk-field interaction over a large range of mass accretion rates. |
| Publications | No publications found for current proposal! |
| Instrument | EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2 |
| Temporal Coverage | 2024-02-08T00:21:57Z/2024-02-08T21:00:13Z |
| 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 | 2025-02-27T00:00:00Z |
| Last Update | 2026-07-09 |
| Keywords | XMM-Newton, OM, RGS, EPIC, X-ray, Multi-Mirror, SAS |
| Publisher And Registrant | European Space Agency |
| Credit Guidelines | European Space Agency, Dr Arianna Miraval Zanon, 2025, 'Hunting for transitional millisecond pulsars with XMM-Newton, NuSTAR and VLA', 21.51_20241115_1113, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-dwxsefa |
| Rights | Data hosted in the ESA Space Science Archives are distributed under the CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license. |