WE PROPOSE TO EXPAND THE SCOPE OF OUR SUCCESSFUL PROJECT PROVIDING A MULTI-SATELLITE LIBRARY OF X-RAY PULSAR OBSERVATIONS TO THE COMMUNITY. THE LIBRARY PROVIDES HIGH-LEVEL PRODUCTS ACTIVITY MONITORING PULSE-PROFILES PHASED EVENT FILES SPECTRA AND A UNIQUE PULSE-PROFILE MODELING INTERFACE.THE LIBRARY'S SCIENTIFIC FOOTPRINT WILL EXPAND IN 4 KEY DIRECTIONS: (1) UPDATE BY PROCESSING ALL NEW XMM-NEWTON AND CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS (2015-2017) OF X-RAY BINARY PULSARS IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS. (2) EXPAND BY INCLUDING ALL ARCHIVAL SUZAKU SWIFT AND NUSTAR OBSERVATIONS AND INCLUDING GALACTIC PULSARS. (3) IMPROVE BY OFFERING INNOVATIVE DATA PRODUCTS THAT PROVIDE DEEPER INSIGHT. (4) ADVANCE BY IMPLEMENTING A NEW GENERATION OF PHYSICALLY MOTIVATED EMISSION AND PULSE-PROFILE MODELS. THE LIBRARY CURRENTLY INCLUDES SOME 2000 INDIVIDUAL RXTE-PCA 200 CHANDRA ACIS-I AND 120 XMM-PN OBSERVATIONS OF THE SMC SPANNING 15 YEARS CREATING AN UNRIVALED RECORD OF PULSAR TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR. IN PHASE-2 ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS OF SMC PULSARS WILL BE ADDED: 221 CHANDRA (ACISS AND ACIS-I) 22 XMM-PN 142 XMM-MOS 92 SUZAKU 25 NUSTAR AND>10 000 SWIFT; LEVERAGING OUR PIPELINE AND ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES ALREADY DEVELOPED. WITH THE ADDITION OF 7 GALACTIC PULSARS EACH HAVING MANY HUNDRED MULTI-SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS THESE DATASETS COVER THE ENTIRE RANGE OF VARIABILITY TIMESCALES AND ACCRETION REGIMES. WE WILL MODEL THE PULSE-PROFILES USING STATE OF THE ART TECHNIQUES TO PARAMETERIZE THEIR MORPHOLOGY AND OBTAIN THE DISTRIBUTION OF OFFSETS BETWEEN MAGNETIC AND SPIN AXES AND CREATE SAMPLES OF PROFILES UNDER SPECIFIC ACCRETION MODES (WHETHER PENCIL-BEAM OR FAN-BEAM DOMINATED). THESE PRODUCTS ARE NEEDED FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF ADVANCES IN NEUTRON STAR THEORY AND MODELING. THE LONG-DURATION OF THE DATASET AND ``WHOLE-GALAXY" NATURE OF THE SMC SAMPLE MAKE POSSIBLE A NEW STATISTICAL APPROACH TO UNCOVER THE DUTY-CYCLE DISTRIBUTION AND HENCE POPULATION DEMOGRAPHICS OF TRANSIENT HIGH MASS X-RAY BINARY (HMXB) POPULATIONS. OUR UNIQUE LIBRARY IS ALREADY FUELING PROGRESS ON FUNDAMENTAL NS PARAMETERS AND ACCRETION PHYSICS.
$544,481FY2020National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA
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