NICER observation list: Target ID 863001

Abstract

XTE J1810-197 is the first discovered radio-loud magnetar. It underwent its second outburst at the end of 2018 when its soft X-ray flux increased by over 2 orders of magnitude driven by the appearance of new hot spots on the surface. Four years later, the source has not yet reached quiescence, showing a hard X-ray flux that is a factor 2 larger. Moreover, the source pulsed fraction and pulse time-of-arrival has shown remarkable variability in the past 5.5 years. We propose 2, 30 ks observations of this historic source to follow-up its very late-time spectral and temporal properties as it decays back to quiescence.
Obsid RA DEC l b Start End Exposure Number of
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8630010101 272.463 -19.731 10.727 -0.159 60762.3035 60762.9574 6908.0 50 5 VALIDATED 60774.7 60776
8630010102 272.463 -19.732 10.727 -0.159 60763.0112 60763.9920 3181.0 50 4 VALIDATED 60774.8 60777
8630010103 272.463 -19.731 10.727 -0.158 60764.1139 60764.9590 5161.0 50 4 VALIDATED 60775.0 60778
8630010104 272.465 -19.732 10.727 -0.161 60765.0764 60765.2822 667.0 50 4 VALIDATED 60775.1 60779