Characterizing New X-ray Sources in the Swift Galactic Plane Survey
Abstract
The Swift Galactic Plane Survey is a simultaneous X-ray -- UV survey, tiling the Galactic plane from -60 leq l leq 60 to -1 leq b leq 1 through a series of shallow 500s exposures, that will obtain complete coverage in the 0.3 -- 10 keV band in addition to simultaneous imaging at UV wavelengths (~ 2200AA). Here, we propose to observe a sample of 10 newly discovered X-ray sources. None of the proposed fields have previously been observed by either Chandra or XMM-Newton. The order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity provided by the proposed observations will allow us to characterize these new sources based on their observed X-ray spectral properties.
- Publication:
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XMM-Newton Proposal
- Pub Date:
- October 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011xmm..prop..188R
- Keywords:
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- White Dwarf Binaries;
- Neutron Star Binaries;
- Cataclysmic Variables;
- ULXs;
- Black Holes;
- src1_sj1228;
- src3_sj1654;
- src4_sj1717