| Name | 080261 |
| Title | Searching for soft gamma-ray pulsars in unassociated Fermi LAT sources with XMM |
| URL | https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0802610301 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-fo6uftt |
| Author | European Space Agency |
| Description | Fermi has detected over 200 gamma-ray pulsars of varying types in 8 years of operations, but the so-called soft (< 100 MeV) gamma-ray pulsars remain relatively elusive. Typically single-peaked, younger and more energetic than GeV pulsars, such pulsars were particularly hard to detect with Fermi prior to the release of Pass 8. Increasing the size of this population may shed light on our current understanding of high-energy pulsars and the effect that various parameters (e.g. geometry) may have on the observed emission. We propose short 5ks XMM observations of our top 5 soft gamma-ray pulsar candidates to enable the first sensitive blind searches for such pulsars using LAT data below 100 MeV. |
| Publication | No observations found associated with the current proposal |
| Instrument | EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2 |
| Temporal Coverage | 2017-07-08T07:53:47Z/2017-12-17T12:31:32Z |
| Version | 17.56_20190403_1200 |
| Mission Description | The European Space Agency's (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) was launched by an Ariane 504 on December 10th 1999. XMM-Newton is ESA's second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 Science Programme. It carries 3 high throughput X-ray telescopes with an unprecedented effective area, and an optical monitor, the first flown on a X-ray observatory. The large collecting area and ability to make long uninterrupted exposures provide highly sensitive observations. Since Earth's atmosphere blocks out all X-rays, only a telescope in space can detect and study celestial X-ray sources. The XMM-Newton mission is helping scientists to solve a number of cosmic mysteries, ranging from the enigmatic black holes to the origins of the Universe itself. Observing time on XMM-Newton is being made available to the scientific community, applying for observational periods on a competitive basis. |
| Creator Contact | https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xmm-newton-helpdesk |
| Date Published | 2019-01-08T23:00:00Z |
| Publisher And Registrant | European Space Agency |
| Credit Guidelines | European Space Agency, 2019, Searching For Soft Gamma-Ray Pulsars In Unassociated Fermi Lat Sources With Xmm, 17.56_20190403_1200, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-fo6uftt |