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We aim to study the cooling emission of highly magnetized neutron stars in Be/X-ray binaries. For this we need to increase our sample with high-qualitypost-outburst spectra. We require the flexibility of Swift to monitor thebehavior of the next potential target and the exceptional sensitivity and largeeffective area of XMM-Newton to study the low X-ray luminosity regime of thesource. These new observations will provide key additional data to i) betterconstrain the temporal evolution of the crust temperature in highly magnetizedaccreting NSs and ii) use the observed cooling curves as input into our 2Dcrust cooling model which incorporates magnetic fields. This is required tounderstand the role of such magnetic fields on the crust heating/cooling scenario of accreting NSs [truncated! Please see actual data for full text]