XMM-Newton Large Programme Details



PROPOSAL OVERVIEW
Proposal Title The Central Compact Object in Cassiopeia A: Magnetar or Anti-Magnetar?
Proposal Category Supernovae, Supernova Remnants, Diffuse (galactic) Emission and Isolated Neutron Stars
Proposal Type LARGE PROGRAM
Proposal Id 065045
Number of Observations 1
Total exposure time (ks) 99

PI DETAILS
PI Dr Eric Gotthelf
Institute COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Country UNITED STATES

CO-INVESTIGATORS
Name Country
J. Halpern UNITED STATES

ABSTRACT
Discovering the pulsar in the Cas A supernova remnant is the key to confirming the interpretation of the Central Compact Objects (CCOs) as a major class of neutron stars (NS) that are born spinning slowly (P gt 100 ms) and with surprisingly weak magnetic fields (B lt 1.e11 G). Mounting evidence for such a population has overtaken the previous hypothesis for the Cas A CCO as a magnetar in quiescence. XMM can make the definitive search for pulsations from this, the youngest known NS. A pulsar in Cas A will reveal the spin period and dipole B-field of a NS at an age that is only a few percent of the known magnetars and CCOs. It will address the relationship between initial angular momentum and natal magnetic field, and investigate their role in the evolution of young NSs.

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 (5 references)
  1. " Recovering Swift-XRT energy resolution through CCD charge trap mapping "
    Pagani, C.; Beardmore, A. P.; Abbey, A. F.; Mountford, C.; Osborne, J. P.; Capalbi, M.; Perri, M.; Angelini, L.; Burrows, D. N.; Campana, S.; Cusumano, G.; Evans, P. A.; Kennea, J. A.; Moretti, A.; Page, K. L.; Starling, R. L. C.;
    2011 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 534, id.A20, pp.
    Number of Citations: 6
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2011A&A...534A..20P
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117660

  2. " Serendipitous UV source catalogues for 10 years of XMM and 5 years of Swift "
    Yershov, V. N.;
    2014 - Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 354, Issue 1, pp.97-101
    Number of Citations: 3
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2014Ap&SS.354...97Y
    DOI: 10.1007/s10509-014-1944-5

  3. " The Million Optical - Radio/X-ray Associations (MORX) Catalogue "
    Flesch, Eric W.;
    2016 - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 33, id.e052 pp.
    Number of Citations: 17
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2016PASA...33...52F
    DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2016.44

  4. " In-flight calibration of the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope "
    Li, Xiaobo; Li, Xufang; Tan, Ying; Yang, Yanji; Ge, Mingyu; Zhang, Juan; Tuo, Youli; Wu, Baiyang; Liao, Jinyuan; Zhang, Yifei; Song, Liming; Zhang, Shu; Qu, Jinlu; Zhang, Shuang-nan; Lu, Fangjun; Xu, Yupeng; Liu, Congzhan; Cao, Xuelei; Chen, Yong; Nie, Jianyin; Zhao, Haisheng; Li, Chengkui;
    2020 - Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, Volume 27, p. 64-76.
    Number of Citations: 6
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2020JHEAp..27...64L
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jheap.2020.02.009

  5. " Classification of 4XMM-DR9 sources by machine learning "
    Zhang, Yanxia; Zhao, Yongheng; Wu, Xue-Bing;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 503, Issue 4, pp.5263-5273
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.503.5263Z
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab744