XMM-Newton Large Programme Details



PROPOSAL OVERVIEW
Proposal Title High-resolution view of high mass accretion to understand black holes growth
Proposal Category White Dwarf Binaries, Neutron Star Binaries, Cataclysmic Variables, ULXs and Black Holes
Proposal Type LARGE PROGRAM
Proposal Id 084486
Number of Observations 8
Total exposure time (ks) 1000

PI DETAILS
PI Dr Ciro Pinto
Institute Institute of Astronomy
Country UNITED KINGDOM

CO-INVESTIGATORS
Name Country
D. Walton UNITED KINGDOM
P. Kosec UNITED KINGDOM
W. Alston UNITED KINGDOM
A. Fabian UNITED KINGDOM
H. Earnshaw UNITED STATES
T. Roberts UNITED KINGDOM
M. Middleton UNITED KINGDOM
R. Soria AUSTRALIA
R. Urquhart AUSTRALIA
E. Kara UNITED STATES

ABSTRACT
The growth of early supermassive black holes requires high accretion rate releasing huge amount of radiation and winds slowing down both accretion rates and start formation. This programme focuses on the physics of high-mass accretion on the stellar mass level where super-Eddington luminosities are more commonly observed. We propose deep X-ray observations of the corner stone supersoft Ultra-Luminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 247 X-1 to probe the very soft end of the hardness distribution necessary to complete the current view. This is the only source that continuously switches between supersoft and classical ultraluminous states, providing a unique workbench for our study. With a 1 Ms XMM-Newton program, we will detect ultrafast outflows and understand how super-Eddington accretion works.

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 (8 references)
  1. " Quasi-periodic dipping in the ultraluminous X-ray source, NGC 247 ULX-1 "
    Alston, W. N.; Pinto, C.; Barret, D.; D'Ai, A.; Del Santo, M.; Earnshaw, H.; Fabian, A. C.; Fuerst, F.; Kara, E.; Kosec, P.; Middleton, M. J.; Parker, M. L.; Pintore, F.; Robba, A.; Roberts, T. P.; Sathyaprakash, R.; Walton, D.; Ambrosi, E.;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 505, Issue 3, pp.3722-3729
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.505.3722A
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1473

  2. " XMM-Newton campaign on the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 247 ULX-1: outflows "
    Pinto, C.; Soria, R.; Walton, D. J.; D'Ai, A.; Pintore, F.; Kosec, P.; Alston, W. N.; Fuerst, F.; Middleton, M. J.; Roberts, T. P.; Del Santo, M.; Barret, D.; Ambrosi, E.; Robba, A.; Earnshaw, H.; Fabian, A. C.;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 505, Issue 4, pp.5058-5074
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.505.5058P
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1648

  3. " The Chameleon on the branches: spectral state transition and dips in NGC 247 ULX-1 "
    D'Ai, A.; Pinto, C.; Del Santo, M.; Pintore, F.; Soria, R.; Robba, A.; Ambrosi, E.; Alston, W.; Barret, D.; Fabian, A. C.; Fuerst, F.; Kara, E.; Kosec, P.; Middleton, M.; Roberts, T.; Rodriguez-Castillo, G.; Walton, D. J.;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 507, Issue 4, pp.5567-5579
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.507.5567D
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2427

  4. " Ionized emission and absorption in a large sample of ultraluminous X-ray sources "
    Kosec, P.; Pinto, C.; Reynolds, C. S.; Guainazzi, M.; Kara, E.; Walton, D. J.; Fabian, A. C.; Parker, M. L.; Valtchanov, I.;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 508, Issue 3, pp.3569-3588
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.508.3569K
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2856

  5. " Dynamical Response of Solar Wind Charge Exchange Soft X-Ray Emission in Earth's Magnetosphere to the Solar Wind Proton Flux "
    Zhang, Yingjie; Sun, Tianran; Carter, Jennifer A.; Sembay, Steve; Koutroumpa, Dimitra; Ji, Li; Liu, Wenhao; Wang, Chi;
    2023 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 948, Issue 1, id.69, pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2023ApJ...948...69Z
    DOI: 10.3390/universe9050212

  6. " 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; Bregman, Joel N.; Liu, Jifeng;
    2024 - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 271, Issue 2, id.62, 18 pp.
    Number of Citations: 1
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024ApJS..271...62P
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3885

  7. " From Active Stars to Black Holes: A Discovery Tool for Galactic X-Ray Sources "
    Rodriguez, Antonio C.;
    2024 - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 136, Issue 5, id.054201, 17 pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024PASP..136e4201R
    DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ad357c

  8. " Unveiling the origin of XMM-Newton soft proton flares: II. Systematics in the proton spectral analysis "
    Mineo, T.; Fioretti, V.; Lotti, S.; Molendi, S.; Lanzuisi, G.; Cappi, M.; Dadina, M.; Ettori, S.; Gastaldello, F.; Amato, R.;
    2024 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 691, id.A230, 12 pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024A&A...691A.230M
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451697