NICER observation list: Target ID 859804

Abstract

Magnetars are young highly-magnetized isolated neutron stars with bright X-ray emission. The decay of their magnetic fields fuels their high energy radiation. Here, we propose a yearly monitoring program of six magnetars to establish their spectral and timing properties. Such a campaign will discover new spin-up and spin-down glitches, reveal their relative strengths and recovery times, and uncover new outburst and bursting epochs. Such observational results are crucial to guide the development of the crust theory in the regime of super-strong B-fields, and its link to magnetospheric physics which dictate the connection between all of the above phenomena. It is also the only mean by which we build up an unbiased sample of glitches therby moving towards a population level investigation.
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8598040101 345.284 58.879 109.087 -0.995 60742.3567 60742.3657 672.0 50 4 VALIDATED 60752.8 60756
8598040201 345.279 58.883 109.086 -0.991 60748.2873 60748.2975 773.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60758.7 60762
8598040301 345.284 58.879 109.087 -0.995 60803.4212 60803.4289 576.0 50 6 VALIDATED 60813.8 60817
8598040401 345.283 58.878 109.086 -0.997 60807.9447 60807.9519 330.0 50 7 VALIDATED 60817.8 60821
8598040701 345.286 58.881 109.088 -0.995 60833.4547 60833.5875 64.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60844.8 60847
8598040801 345.283 58.879 109.087 -0.995 60838.9970 60839.0090 565.0 50 6 VALIDATED 60860.2 60853