NICER observation list: Target ID 859806

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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8598060101 26.596 61.755 129.384 -0.426 60746.4148 60746.4262 857.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60756.7 60760
8598060301 26.594 61.751 129.384 -0.431 60758.3546 60758.3602 378.0 50 6 VALIDATED 60769.8 60772
8598060401 26.594 61.752 129.384 -0.430 60765.0640 60765.5833 481.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60776.7 60779
8598060701 26.593 61.751 129.384 -0.431 60787.6162 60787.7502 570.0 50 6 VALIDATED 60799.0 60801
8598060801 26.592 61.751 129.384 -0.431 60793.1637 60793.1708 432.0 50 4 VALIDATED 60803.0 60807
8598060901 26.593 61.751 129.384 -0.431 60802.7081 60802.7160 538.0 50 6 VALIDATED 60812.7 60816
8598061001 26.585 61.751 129.380 -0.431 60807.2986 60807.3074 529.0 50 6 VALIDATED 60816.8 60821
8598061401 26.592 61.752 129.383 -0.430 60836.3603 60836.4919 81.0 50 8 VALIDATED 60864.2 60850
8598061501 26.593 61.751 129.384 -0.431 60842.1604 60842.1708 467.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60864.7 60856