Chandra observations of an engimatic class of faint accreting slow pulsators

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Sep 2007

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Chandra Proposal ID #09400441

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Chandra Proposal Id #09400441

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We propose a series of 1 ksec Chandra observations of an enigmatic class of objects: faint to very faint accreting slow pulsators with period greater than several hundreds of seconds. The nature of these objects is unclear; likely they are neutron stars accreting from a high-mass companion star, but often an accreting magnetized white dwarf nature (i.e., an intermediate polar) cannot be excluded. With our proposed Chandra observations we will obtain a position of these sources which will be used to identify their optical/IR counterpart, crucial in determining the exact nature of these systems. In addition, we request short (5 ksec) XMM-Newton observations of the same targets which will result in good spectra and allow for searches to be undertaken for any spin-period derivatives.

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