NICER observation list: Target ID 859805

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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8598050301 257.199 -40.150 346.480 0.033 60758.1162 60758.1243 85.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60768.0 60772
8598050401 257.195 -40.148 346.481 0.036 60765.8664 60765.8757 0.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60776.8 60779
8598050501 257.196 -40.148 346.481 0.036 60772.5597 60772.5720 953.0 50 6 VALIDATED 60787.2 60786
8598050601 257.200 -40.140 346.489 0.038 60779.5391 60779.5464 439.0 50 4 VALIDATED 60789.7 60793
8598050701 257.195 -40.148 346.481 0.037 60786.8373 60786.8468 575.0 50 6 VALIDATED 60797.2 60800
8598050801 257.193 -40.143 346.484 0.040 60792.1130 60792.1211 439.0 50 4 VALIDATED 60803.0 60806
8598050802 257.195 -40.148 346.481 0.036 60795.0847 60795.6058 1036.0 50 6 VALIDATED 60806.8 60809
8598051001 257.200 -40.147 346.484 0.033 60809.0486 60809.0558 568.0 50 6 VALIDATED 60818.9 60823
8598051101 257.202 -40.147 346.484 0.032 60814.0847 60814.0917 543.0 50 8 VALIDATED 60832.8 60828
8598051201 257.196 -40.148 346.481 0.036 60821.2444 60821.5081 732.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60832.9 60835
8598051301 257.194 -40.149 346.479 0.036 60828.1562 60828.1660 341.0 50 4 VALIDATED 60839.3 60842
8598051401 257.195 -40.148 346.481 0.036 60834.9931 60835.0074 596.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60847.0 60849
8598051501 257.200 -40.161 346.473 0.025 60842.0912 60842.0998 0.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60864.6 60856