Hunting for magnetars in poorly known high mass X-ray binaries using XMM-Newton

A number of highenergy (up to hundreds of keV) sources are already believed tobe powered by the dissipation of an exceptionally high magnetic field( >10^{15} ,G), and are collectively termed magnetars. All currently knownmagnetars are isolated; however, it was recently suggested that magnetars couldalso be hosted in young high mass Xray binaries (HMXB). If the presence ofmagnetars in HMXBs is confirmed, then these sources might yield new crucialinformation onto the formation and evolution of these peculiar objects. While anumber of well known candidates are already under inspection, we propose here tocarry out a 20virgulks XMMNewton observations of the two newly promising sourcesIGRvirgulJ17354 3255, and IGRvirgulJ16328 4726. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]