| PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
| Proposal Title | Follow-up Observations of New Tidal Disruption Events Discovered by EP |
| Proposal Category | Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, BL-Lac Objects and Tidal Disruption Events |
| Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
| Proposal Id | 096449 |
| Number of Observations | 9 |
| Total exposure time (ks) | 486 |
| PI DETAILS | |
| PI | Dr. Dongyue Li |
| Institute | National Astronomical Observatory (NAOC) |
| Country | CHINA |
| CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
| Name | Country | |
| L. Dai | CHINA | |
| W. Zhang | CHINA | |
| S. Wen | CHINA | |
| H. Yang | CHINA | |
| R. Saxton | SPAIN | |
| P. O'Brien | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| R. Eyles-Ferris | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| TDEs are a key class of long-term transients, revealing the accretion of stellar debris after disruption by a massive black hole. However, the lack of real-time X-ray detection has limited our understanding of the their processes. The recently launched Einstein Probe (EP) mission, with large field-of-view and high sensitivity, enables systematic discovery and monitoring of new X-ray TDEs, which may revolutionize our understanding of them. By now, EP has identified several noteworthy TDE candidates, highlighting its great potential in TDE science. On behalf of the EP Science Center, we propose an XMM-Newton large program to perform observations of three new TDEs to be discovered by EP, to improve our understanding of their accretion physics and evolution. | |
| 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 |