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Proposal Overview
Proposal Title Characterization of the most highly-ionized absorbers in dipping LMXBs
Proposal Category White Dwarf Binaries, Neutron Star Binaries, Cataclysmic Variables, ULXs and Black Holes
Proposal Type LARGE PROGRAM
Proposal Id 040551
Number of Observations 2
Total exposure time (ks) 329

PI Details
PI Dr Maria Diaz Trigo
Institute ESTEC, ESA
Country NETHERLANDS

Co-Investigators
Name Country
A. Parmar NETHERLANDS
L. Boirin FRANCE

Abstract
We propose three 60 ksec and one 140 ks XMM-Newton observations of the dipping Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs) XB 1254-690 and 4U 1746-371. We will obtain up to ~12 ks of dip data per 4U 1254-690 observation which will be sufficient to reliably measure the dip properties and the changes in the absorber, compared to the persistent emission. The 140 ks of the 4U 1746-12 observation, added to a previous 50 ks XMM-Newton observation on this source, will be enough to detect with high significance the Fe XXVI absorption feature seen in the previous observation at low confidence in the persistent emission and Fe XXV and/or Fe XXVI absorption features in the dipping emission. The significant detection of these lines will allow the absorber properties to be unambigously characterized.

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 (6 references)
  1. "Variations in the dip properties of the low-mass X-ray binary XB 1254-690 observed with XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL"
    Díaz Trigo, M.; Parmar, A. N.; Boirin, L.; Motch, C.; Talavera, A.; Balman, S.;
    2009 - Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 493, Issue 1, 2009, pp.145-157
    Number of Citations: 12
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009A&A...493..145D

  2. "An All-Sky Atlas of Radio/X-ray Associations"
    Flesch, E.;
    2010 - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 27, Issue 3, pp. 283-289.
    Number of Citations: 9
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PASA...27..283F

  3. "The XMM Cluster Survey: X-ray analysis methodology"
    Lloyd-Davies, E. J.; Romer, A. Kathy; Mehrtens, Nicola; Hosmer, Mark; Davidson, Michael; Sabirli, Kivanc; Mann, Robert G.; Hilton, Matt; Liddle, Andrew R.; Viana, Pedro T. P.; Campbell, Heather C.; Collins, Chris A.; Dubois, E. Naomi; Freeman, Peter; Harrison, Craig D.; Hoyle, Ben; Kay, Scott T.; Kuwertz, Emma; Miller, Christopher J.; Nichol, Robert C.; Sahlén, Martin; Stanford, S. A.; Stott, John P.;
    2011 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 418, Issue 1, pp. 14-53.
    Number of Citations: 20
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011MNRAS.418...14L

  4. "The XMM Cluster Survey: optical analysis methodology and the first data release"
    Mehrtens, Nicola; Romer, A. Kathy; Hilton, Matt; Lloyd-Davies, E. J.; Miller, Christopher J.; Stanford, S. A.; Hosmer, Mark; Hoyle, Ben; Collins, Chris A.; Liddle, Andrew R.; Viana, Pedro T. P.; Nichol, Robert C.; Stott, John P.; Dubois, E. Naomi; Kay, Scott T.; Sahlén, Martin; Young, Owain; Short, C. J.; Christodoulou, L.; Watson, William A.; Davidson, Michael; Harrison, Craig D.; Baruah, Leon; Smith, Mathew; Burke, Claire; Mayers, Julian A.; Deadman, Paul-James; Rooney, Philip J.; Edmondson, Edward M.; West, Michael; Campbell, Heather C.; Edge, Alastair C.; Mann, Robert G.; Sabirli, Kivanc; Wake, David; Benoist, Christophe; da Costa, Luiz; Maia, Marcio A. G.; Ogando, Ricardo;
    2012 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 423, Issue 2, pp. 1024-1052.
    Number of Citations: 22
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012MNRAS.423.1024M

  5. "Classification of X-Ray Sources in the XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog"
    Lin, Dacheng; Webb, Natalie A.; Barret, Didier;
    2012 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 756, Issue 1, article id. 27, 18 pp. (2012).
    Number of Citations: 2
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...756...27L

  6. "Interstellar medium composition through X-ray spectroscopy of low-mass X-ray binaries"
    Pinto, C.; Kaastra, J. S.; Costantini, E.; de Vries, C.;
    2013 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 551, id.A25, 13 pp.
    Number of Citations:
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013A&A...551A..25P



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