| PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
| Proposal Title | Tracking the Wind of a Black Hole Low-Mass X-ray Binary in Spectral Transition |
| Proposal Category | Isolated and Binary Compact Objects & their Evolution |
| Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
| Proposal Id | 094484 |
| Number of Observations | 23 |
| Total exposure time (ks) | 340 |
| PI DETAILS | |
| PI | Mr. Maxime Parra |
| Institute | Universite de Grenoble Alpes - IPAG / Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre |
| Country | ITALY |
| CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
| Name | Country | |
| A. Merloni | ITALY | |
| A. Zdziarski | POLAND | |
| A. Rau | GERMANY | |
| B. De Marco | SPAIN | |
| D. Russell | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | |
| F. Cangemi | FRANCE | |
| G. Ponti | ITALY | |
| J. Rodriguez | FRANCE | |
| K. Alabarta Jativa | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | |
| M. Clavel | FRANCE | |
| M. Capi | ITALY | |
| M. Coriat | FRANCE | |
| P. Gandhi | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| P. Petrucci | FRANCE | |
| S. Bianchi | ITALY | |
| R. Fender | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| M. Shidatsu | JAPAN | |
| S. Corbel | FRANCE | |
| S. Chakravorty | INDIA | |
| T. Muñoz-Darias | SPAIN | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| Winds in low mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) might carry away a significant amount of matterand are thus able to regulate the evolution of these systems. To make a decisivebreakthrough in our understanding of these winds, we propose a Large Program of 10-day XMM-NuSTARconsecutive monitoring (30 ks/day XMM, 20 ks/day NuSTAR), triggered by Optical and X-ray alerts, of ahigh-inclination Black Hole LMXB during the Hard-to-Soft transition. This will allow us to simultaneouslyand accurately determine the X-ray broadband spectral shape and detect the wind absorption lines.These are key ingredients to put firm constraints, both on the evolution of the wind physical properties withthe accretion state and its possible association with the jet (thanks to proprietary simultaneous IR/radioobservations). | |
| 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 |