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The paper was submitted on 2020 Feb 20, and accepted on Apr 28. Posted to arXiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00685
Earlier goal was to try to submit the paper by end of 2015 mid-2016 late-2016 mid-2017 late-2017 early 2018 late 2018 mid 2019 end 2019 2020 Jan (sigh).
Most recently we reviewed the draft via teleconference on 2019 Dec 17, and a pre-submission draft has now (Dec 20) been circulated. The plan is to collect feedback through 2020 Jan 17 and submit as soon as possible after that.
Please as a matter of urgency check the outstanding paper tasks below and let me (Duncan) know if you can't complete them by this date.
Earlier we met in Amsterdam (with some attendees via Zoom) on 2019 Oct 23 to discuss the final tasks. The paper todos below have been updated based on that discussion; and our next target is having a comment-free draft essentially ready for submission by 2019 November 17 unavoidable delay from the original target of Nov 8.
Before that (in 2017 June) we had a few MINBAR team meetings at DTU and SRON, on 30 June 2017 at SRON, Utrecht with DKG, Jean in 't Zand (host), Anna Watts, & Erik Kuulkers; and 1–2 June 2017 at DTU Space, Denmark. Here is a link to a Google doc where we're collecting progress from that meeting
Please volunteer for those marked help wanted if you have some time to contribute.
Feel free to assume responsibility to any of the other unassigned/inactive tasks; please keep this up to date with any progress.
Have moved the completed tasks to a separate page (click to view)
The paper
Pre-submission draft now available at ShareLaTeX. For those who've received a share invitation, feel free to contribute
Here's a script for use with IDL to set up borders, character sizes, and line thickness, to try to maintain consistency for all figures in the paper (might not be much help if you don't use IDL)
Below are some specific tasks identified which need addressing
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Address any existing comments in the text, as per instructions below:
- first try to add it yourself in the Overleaf document (in “track changes”/suggestion mode). Add comments justifying your changes if it’s not clear from the text
- if you aren’t able to address the issue yourself, please clearly indicate to whom the comment is addressed using the macros for individual comments. E.g. a comment addressed to Jean (from me) would look in the text like
\jz{is that a typo on the previous line? — dkg} % Sep 2019(note also this comment is dated, not necessary if you’re using track changes) See the macros beginning line 85 of main.tex for the appropriate command to use
- if it’s a general comment use
\notitie but also include your initials and the date. Please indicate what is the issue and why you think it should be fixed (and suggestions for how, if you’ve already ruled out option #1 above)
- As a final point, please review any comments that are addressed to you as per the macro commands and either ask for clarification with whoever made them, or try to address them (e.g. using suggestion mode for endorsement by the other contributors if necessary).
| all
| in progress
| | add windup/conclusion section describing the future; intention to make analysis software public; give zenodo (or perhaps figshare; here's a possibly outdated comparison https://zenodo.org/record/12664#.XbBE_y17HOQ) link; and handover to the community for further extension
| dkg, all
| in progress
| | add more description of the web interface to the paper; ek suggested listing this as an appendix, but seems there is little support for this idea
| dkg
| defer for now
| | UPDATE YOUR AFFILIATION
| ek, cs, all
| complete 17.2.20
| | add references for additional instruments (ideally including discussion of burst samples) referred to in future work (sec. 9.9)
| all
| complete
| generate new version of the burst oscillation table based on Laura's update sent Nov 10 2019 Dec (Amplitudes_bo_2019-dec.txt); notes from earlier version "includes an extra column for a 3-sigma upper limit on the amplitude for bursts without detected oscillation signals. The table includes all columns listed in table 13 of the paper (with an extra column after column 11), except for column 5: MINBAR observation ID. I couldn't find what this was, so I have only included the observation ID and entry." MRT version completed, minbar-osc.txt; sent to L. Ootes for review
| dkg
| complete 7.2.20
| | move the more detailed discussion on the effect of many bursts on the peak luminosity in the Eddington flux section (5.4) to the companion paper
| hw
| completed 2019 Nov
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minbar
RXTE and BeppoSAX bursts are largely complete; JEM-X data included through revolution 1166.
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| check the ASCII table (available here) for bogus values; a good way is to try to do some science on the sample to verify the data. If you spot bogus values, or things that don’t seem to make sense (or match the description in the paper) please let me (Duncan) know
| help wanted
| in progress
| | Re-do lightcurve analysis for long BurstIDs 2705 (0614+09), 3663 (0918-54) and 6229 (IGR J17254), which are coming in as too short due to the SCW cutoff; update values in the database
| jz
| not started
| | Check for bursts from the new sources IGR J17445-2747 and Swift J181723.1-164300 (JEM-X light curves are produced)
| help wanted
| not started
| | Review weak/spurious JEM-X bursts, single-bin burst candidates etc. and remove from the sample if necessary. A "good" example of false candidate is AX J1754.2-2754 at MJD 52750.77136 (#4318, JEM-X obs 006300690010). Need to assess how this ended up in the database (not even present on image)
| dkg, jc help wanted
| in progress
| | truncate the flux histories for 11 bursts from Cyg X-2 (2318, 2412, 2415, 2596, 3210, 3224, 3239, 3240, 3248, 3250, 3346) to improve the precision of the fluence measurement; these events seem to have a higher post-burst flux level than before
| dkg
| not started
| | address missing-data issues for PCA bursts from 4U 1728-34; #8366 (30424-01-05-00R) doesn't seem to have any data; should this be flagged? #4188 is purportedly in 40433-01-01-00, but I think actually should be 40433-01-01-01S (fixed). Also in Anya's list of obsid discrepancies below
| dkg
| in progress
| | review new bursts from 4U 1728-34 and the Rapid Burster detected in offset fields (#8293 and above) to remove effect of type-II bursts, check parameters
| dkg
| in progress
| | check WFC bolometric fluxes, fluen; not matching raw data? e.g. #1719
| dkg
| not started
| | review low-significance fluence measurements and consider flagging if too imprecise
| dkg
| not started
| | calculate persistent fluxes for RXTE bursts using only the interval prior to the burst
| dkg
| not started
| copy colours and persistent fluxes (columns: perflx, perflxe, pemin, pemax, sc, hc, s_z) from minbar-obs database (where available). Wrote att_copy.pro for this purpose; now filters on colour, and includes BeppoSAX bursts (but omits the burst-specific persistent flux levels) recurring task
| dkg
| updated 2020 Jan
| update the trec values; this can be set equal to the separation tdel (where there are no gaps since the previous burst), or based on the recurrence time analysis, e.g. for regular bursters like GS 1826-24 (cf. with the reference burst paper). Also calculate alpha where possible. Wrote set_trec.pro and set_alpha.pro for these purposes recurring task
| dkg
| checked 2020 Jan
| angle parameter in minbar and minbar-obs don't (ever) agree for PCA and JEM-X bursts; need to double-check and fix
| dkg
| complete 22.1.20
| | fill new "string" flag column in IDL table, for use with the web table
| dkg
| complete 21.1.20
| | add new bursts from Jean's analysis of 2019 Dec 14 and update tables, numbers etc.; waiting for missing lightcurves
| dkg, jc
| complete 17.1.20
| | update lightcurve fits for bursts #5792, 5794 with Jean's analysis results emailed on Jan 14
| dkg
| complete 17.1.20
| | generate images around the time of selected newly-added JEM-X bursts to confirm localisation
| jc, cs
| defer, low priority
| | share some example all-detector event files for bright events to test sub-10s time-resolved spectral analysis. May be obsolete if the new OSA can produce sub-10s spectra
| jc, dkg
| defer, next release
| | extract time-resolved spectra for JEM-X bursts also detected by RXTE, following the same recipe as for BeppoSAX, for comparison of time-resolved spectroscopy
| jc
| defer, next release
| | run search for bursts from new burst source IGR J00291+5934; the Swift burst was very bright, so it seems unlikely that we'd miss one of these
| dkg
| defer, next release
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minbar-obs
BeppoSAX persistent fluxes complete, some RXTE observations still need re-fitting, also working on updated colour analysis. JEM-X observations through rev. 1166 (2012 May 3) have been incorporated into the database.
| Task
| assigned to
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| check the ASCII table (available here) for bogus values; a good way is to try to do some science on the sample to verify the data. If you spot bogus values, or things that don’t seem to make sense (or match the description in the paper) please let me (Duncan) know
| all
| in progress
| | check for duplicate observation entries, and flag extras (as -1)
| dkg
| not started
| | check for -ve sigma values and fix if possible
| dkg
| not started
| refit the spectra with Gaussian components where the centroid energy and/or the line width are outside the limits prescribed by obsflux.pro
| dkg
| in progress
| there are many observations where the significance deviates from this ratio; and also where the error on the count rate is not given (or is negative). Need to fix these and/or update the description under "significance" in section minbar-obs
| dkg
| not started
| fix/replace JEM-X observation-averaged spectra with STAT_ERR=0
| jc
| in progress
| copy updated spectra to xray and re-run the spectral fits for all the JEM-X observations, including the updated nH value for IGR J17254-3257, and the observations of the new source XTE J1812–182
| dkg
| waiting for
| | incorporate observations of the new burst source IGR J17445-2747 through rev. 1122 IF any bursts are detected from the source
| jc
| not started
| re-fit all JEM-X and PCA spectra with sub-significance threshold fluxes, with power law model with fixed gamma=2
| dkg
| in progress
| re-fit the RXTE spectra for which the model attribute is blank, and fix the instr attribute (list has been saved in obsflux_progress.dat for use with obsflux.pro)
| dkg
| not started
| | complete spectral fits for PCA and JEM-X observations where the emin, emax, and/or model entries indicate out-of-date fits
| dkg
| in progress
| fix the minbar-obs JEM-X entries for which the count-rates have been erroneously scaled assuming OSA >=10 normalisation; see jemx_norm_check.pro
| jc, dkg
| in progress
| check the 1930 missing spectra for JEM-X observations with off-axis angle < 5 degrees. Should these not have been created? (have been flagged "persistent spectrum not available" in the notes field). Jérôme has reviewed these and provided updated spectra; see email of 8th December 2016
| jc
| in progress
| correct count, counte columns for RXTE, JEM-X observations; listed as count/s, but need to convert to count/s/cm2 with Jean's nominal instrumental areas for consistency with BeppoSAX values. Also, counte for RXTE observations are all set to 1; seems to have been incorrectly read in by spec_param
| dkg
| in progress
| calculate gamma-values (once all the spectral fits are done) and update database (both minbar-obs and minbar using minbar_integrate.pro, now with updated anisotropy corrections recurring task
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| updated 2019 Dec
| | cross-check colours for JEM-X, BeppoSAX observations against (simultaneous) RXTE obs
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| in progress
| | add RXTE observations of new burst source IGR J00291+5934 (but only if we detect a burst with JEM-X; see Kuin et al. 2015)
| dkg
| waiting for
| | verify spectral fits via chi^2 values, and update for outliers; identified need for update JEM-X spectra
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| waiting for
| angle parameter in minbar and minbar-obs don't (ever) agree for PCA and JEM-X bursts and observations; need to double-check and fix
| dkg
| complete 22.1.20
| | fill new "string" flag column in IDL table, for use with the web table
| dkg
| complete 21.1.20
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minbar-sources
This table is stored as a FITS file, minbar_sources.fits, also available to the public at http://burst.sci.monash.edu/sources. It is based initially on the INTEGRAL source catalog, and so new additions are copied from there. The table currently contains 112 entries (v2.0 as 26/4/18).
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| add IGR J17591-2342 to the table (waiting for Kuiper et al., in prep; not reported elsewhere)
| dkg, jc
| waiting for
| | add Gaia source IDs, info provided by Hauke to the table
| dkg
| not started
| | check against Jean's list
| dkg
| not started
| | update numbers of bursts & observations recurring task
| dkg
| revised 20.12.17
| | add flag "T" (transient) for 1RXS J180408.9-342058; likely not UCB, due to long regular bursts (Marino et al. 2019). What about "burst-only" sources? Also add "T" for SAX J1818
| dkg, jc, jz
| complete
| | check the bibcodes, some are not correct in the FITS file
| dkg
| complete 14.2.20
| add burst rates (presently stored in a file, burst_rate_average.dat) to the FITS file
| dkg
| complete 17.2.20
| | Add nH value for 4U 1708-40 to the table, once the value (and source) are confirmed
| dg
| defer, low priority
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Web interface
| Task
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| check that web interface queries described in section 6 match the numbers in the paper
| dkg
| not started
| | copy explanatory text from section 6 of the paper to web interface help pages
| dkg
| not started
| | complete routine to copy time-resolved spectroscopy files, and run on all good-quality bursts
| dkg
| in progress
| | download standard products to complete the sample of RXTE lightcurves
| dkg
| in progress
| | create template page for bursts
| dkg
| preliminary version created
| | create template page for observations
| dkg
| preliminary version created
| | duplicate template page for each burst
| dkg
| not started
| | copy RXTE burst light curves to web host
| dkg
| waiting for
| duplicate template page for each observation, but don't use the current WFC light curves (see related task in the minbar-obs section)
| dkg
| not started
| | copy BeppoSAX burst light curves to web host
| dkg
| waiting for
| | fix the burst queries; I think this is failing because of the change in data type for the rexp column. Emailed Simon Yu to get some help with this task 2018 Sep 5
| dkg
| completed 12.4.19
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Deferred list
This list of tasks have been dropped/descoped/deferred to future versions, in the interests of completing the analysis for DR1
| database
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| minbar
| develop/adapt time-resolved spectral fitting code for JEM-X bursts
| jmz/dkg/jc/cs
| not started
| | minbar
| apply spectral fitting code to all JEM-X bursts
| dkg
| not started
| | minbar
| extract slew light curves, now possible with the latest OSA version, and search for additional bursts
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| not started
| | minbar-obs
| incorporate JEM-X observations into minbar-obs beyond rev. 1166 into MINBAR; spectra (and light curves?) now available through rev. 1499 (2015-01-24) 21/9/2016
| dkg
| not started
| | minbar-obs
| revise screening procedure for off-axis RXTE observations to enable data extraction (these are currently reported as "no good times"). Need to relax screening criteria in run_analyze.pro and then add a check for stable offset pointing estimate how much data there is
| dkg
| not started
| | minbar
| review candidates, incorporating images, to confirm candidates and origin through INTEGRAL rev. 1229.
| dkg, jc
| in progress
| | minbar
| identify additional sources with lots of bursts in the soft state (S_Z >= 2), that should have the best chance of detecting burst oscillations (cf. with search of 4U 1746-37 and 4U 1705-44)
| anya
| not started
| | minbar
| run burst search for lightcurves beyond the current revolution limit
| dkg
| not started
| | minbar
| review frequent JEM-X events from the Rapid Burster to identify the type-I examples in trains of type-II bursts
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| not started
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