| PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
| Proposal Title | First complete view of the Magellanic bridge with eROSITA and XMM-Newton legacy |
| Proposal Category | Isolated and Binary Compact Objects & their Evolution |
| Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
| Proposal Id | 094132 |
| Number of Observations | 16 |
| Total exposure time (ks) | 528 |
| PI DETAILS | |
| PI | Dr. Chandreyee Maitra |
| Institute | Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik |
| Country | GERMANY |
| CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
| Name | Country | |
| F. Haberl | GERMANY | |
| M. Cioni | GERMANY | |
| M. Filipovic | AUSTRALIA | |
| M. Salvato | GERMANY | |
| D. Buckley | SOUTH AFRICA | |
| I. Monageng | SOUTH AFRICA | |
| V. Ramachandran | GERMANY | |
| M. Sasaki | GERMANY | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| We propose EPIC observations to obtain a complete view of the Magellanic bridge stellar population in X-rays for the first time. These comprise of LMXBs, supersoft sources and other possible serendipitous objects. The targets are a carefully chosen high-purity sample associated with the MCB obtained by correlating the deepest eROSITA data with multi-wavelength information to remove foreground and background contaminants. Our systematic survey of selected MCB regions will create a unique data set to understand the tidal interactions between the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud and trace the history of the Local Galaxy group. | |
| PAPERS |
| - 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 |