Swift/XRT detects a new outburst of the Galactic Center transient AX J1745.6-2901
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| Publication date | 01-10-2019 |
| Journal | The astronomer's telegram |
| Volume | Issue number | 13150 |
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| Abstract | Our daily Swift/XRT monitoring observations of the Galactic Center (Degenaar et al. 2015, JHEAp, 7, 137) show X-ray activity of a transient source located 1.5' to the south-east of Sgr A*. This object is clearly detected in individual XRT images since September 17 (obs ID 00095329145), with a count rate of 0.04-0.12 c/s. Using the tool xrtcentroid on a combined image of the 13 observations taken between September 17 and 29 (obsID 00095329145-157), we determine that the position of the transient is RA = 17:45:36.16, DEC = -29:01:33.24 (J2000) with a 90% confidence error of 3.6". |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13150 |
| Other links | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ATel13150....1D/abstract |
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Swift XRT detects a new outburst of the Galactic Center transient AX J1745.6-2901
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