- Author
- Year
- 2013
- Title
- Swift/XRT monitoring observations detect an active X-ray transient near the Galactic center
- Journal
- The astronomer's telegram
- Volume
- 5222
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science (FNWI)
- Institute
- Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
- Abstract
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We report on ongoing daily X-ray monitoring observations of the Galactic center with the Swift/XRT (ATel #5006; see link below). In addition to continued activity of the magnetar SGR J1745-29 (ATels #5009,#5016, #5020, #5032, #5037, #5046, #5053; Kennea et al. 2013; Mori et al. 2013), a transient X-ray source located ~1.5 arcmin south-east of Sgr A* has become active. This object is first detected during a ~1.0 ks PC mode observation performed on 2013 July 18, at a net count rate of ~1E-2 counts/s.
- Link
- Link
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.403613
- Downloads
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Swift_XRT_monitoring_observations_detect.pdf(Final published version)
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