PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
Proposal Title | Extreme growth and feedback in compact objects: the XMM-Newton legacy |
Proposal Category | Isolated and Binary Compact Objects & their Evolution |
Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
Proposal Id | 096127 |
Number of Observations | 16 |
Total exposure time (ks) | 1424 |
PI DETAILS | |
PI | Dr. Ciro Pinto |
Institute | INAF IASF-Palermo |
Country | ITALY |
CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
Name | Country | |
F. Pintore | ITALY | |
M. Del Santo | ITALY | |
A. D'A? | ITALY | |
G. Rodriguez-Castillo | ITALY | |
A. Wolter | ITALY | |
M. Bachetti | ITALY | |
R. Soria | ITALY | |
P. Esposito | ITALY | |
A. Tiengo | ITALY | |
F. Fuerst | SPAIN | |
M. Middleron | UNITED KINGDOM | |
W. Alston | UNITED KINGDOM | |
T. Roberts | UNITED KINGDOM | |
J. Miller | UNITED STATES | |
D. Barret | FRANCE | |
M. Guainazzi | NETHERLANDS | |
F. Barra | ITALY | |
Y. Xu | CANADA | |
G. Israel | ITALY |
ABSTRACT | |
Super-Eddington accretion is the most extreme and yet least understood phase of the history of a compact object. Here strong radiation pressure blows powerful winds which take away a significant fraction of matter and energy thereby influencing the growth of compact objects, the binary systems and the star formation in their surroundings. Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are the most concrete examples of super-Eddington accretors and give the unique opportunity to study such regime in great detail. Here we propose a XMM-Newton program to build the first statistical sample of ultrafast outflows in ULXs, and quantify the fundamental-plane relation between mechanical power, X-ray luminosity and spectral hardness. This will also shed new light on black holes? accelerated growth in the early Universe. |
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 |