XMM-Newton Large Programme Details



PROPOSAL OVERVIEW
Proposal Title Staring down the gravity well: a comprehensive study of the hard state of Cyg X-
Proposal Category White Dwarf Binaries, Neutron Star Binaries, Cataclysmic Variables, ULXs and Black Holes
Proposal Type LARGE PROGRAM
Proposal Id 74525
Number of Observations 4
Total exposure time (ks) 496

PI DETAILS
PI Dr Phil Uttley
Institute University of Amsterdam
Country NETHERLANDS

CO-INVESTIGATORS
Name Country
J. Wilms GERMANY
F. Harrison UNITED STATES
J. Tomsick UNITED STATES
M. Bacchetti FRANCE
E. Kara UNITED KINGDOM
J. Miller-Jones AUSTRALIA
A. Rushton UNITED KINGDOM
T. Maccarone UNITED STATES
A. Varlotta UNITED STATES
J. Holder UNITED STATES
W. Cui UNITED STATES
G. Maier GERMANY
K. Pottschmidt UNITED STATES
S. Vaughan UNITED KINGDOM
S. Markoff NETHERLANDS

ABSTRACT
We repropose our previously-awarded request to observe the bright persistent hard state of Cyg X-1 with the EPIC-pn in timing mode for 4 consecutive XMM-Newton orbits, in order to reverberation map the iron Kalpha line for the very first time in an X-ray binary. Unfortunately the source has remained in the soft state since our original proposal in 2010, so we request continuation with an expanded science team, including observations from NuSTAR, VLBA, CARMA and VERITAS, for an unprecedented multiwavelength study of disc, corona, stellar-wind and jet, when the source finally transitions back to the hard state.

PAPERS
Authors marked in red are (co-)investigators in the proposal

Classification of papers are:
- CLASS 1:   papers that present specific XMM-Newton observations
- CLASS 2: papers that refer to published XMM-Newton results with complementary observations, follow-up analysis, or theoretical analysis
- CLASS 3: further deliveries which resulted from the program and which are made available to the community (e.g. source catalogues, processed images or spectra in public data base)
- CLASS 4: comments and suggestions from PI

CLASS 1 (6 references)
  1. " Leveraging high-resolution spectra to understand black hole spectra "
    Nowak, M. A.;
    2017 - Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 338, Issue 227, pp. 227-233
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2017AN....338..227N
    DOI: 10.1002/asna.201713335

  2. " A new lepto-hadronic model applied to the first simultaneous multiwavelength data set for Cygnus X-1 "
    Kantzas, D.; Markoff, S.; Beuchert, T.; Lucchini, M.; Chhotray, A.; Ceccobello, C.; Tetarenko, A. J.; Miller-Jones, J. C. A.; Bremer, M.; Garcia, J. A.; Grinberg, V.; Uttley, P.; Wilms, J.;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 500, Issue 2, pp.2112-2126
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.500.2112K
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3349

  3. " The X-ray spectral-timing contribution of the stellar wind in the hard state of Cyg X-1 "
    Lai, E. V.; De Marco, B.; Zdziarski, A. A.; Belloni, T. M.; Mondal, S.; Uttley, P.; Grinberg, V.; Wilms, J.; Rozanska, A.;
    2022 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 512, Issue 2, pp.2671-2685
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2022MNRAS.512.2671L
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac688

  4. " High-resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of Interstellar Iron toward Cygnus X-1 and GX 339-4 "
    Corrales, Lia; Gotthelf, Eric V.; Gatuzz, Efrain; Kallman, Timothy R.; Lee, Julia C.; Martins, Michael; Paerels, Frits; Psaradaki, Ioanna; Schippers, Stefan; Savin, Daniel Wolf;
    2024 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 965, Issue 2, id.172, 18 pp.
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024ApJ...965..172C
    DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.17195

  5. " Discovering the Mass-Scaled Damping Timescale from Microquasars to Blazars "
    Zhang, Haoyang; Yang, Shenbang; Dai, Benzhong;
    2024 - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 967, Issue 1, id.L18, 7 pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024ApJ...967L..18Z
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad3736

  6. " Characterisation of the stellar wind in Cyg X-1 via modelling of colour-colour diagrams "
    Lai, E. V.; De Marco, B.; Cavecchi, Y.; El Mellah, I.; Cinus, M.; Diez, C. M.; Grinberg, V.; Zdziarski, A. A.; Uttley, P.; Bachetti, M.; José, J.; Sala, G.; Różańska, A.; Wilms, J.;
    2024 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 691, id.A78, 15 pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024A&A...691A..78L
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2341