Swift/XRT detects renewed activity of the Galactic center X-ray transient Swift J174535.5-285921
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| Publication date | 11-07-2016 |
| Journal | The astronomer's telegram |
| Volume | Issue number | 9236 |
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| Abstract |
Our daily Swift/XRT monitoring observations of the Galactic center (Degenaar et al. 2015) have revealed activity of a transient X-ray source located ~1.4' to the north-east of Sgr A*. An excess of photons was first seen during a 0.9-ks PC mode observation performed on 2016 July 7. The object remains to be detected in subsequent observations performed on July 8,9, and 10. To obtain a position for the newly active X-ray source, we use the four PC-mode observations obtained between July 7 and 10 (amounting to 3.5 ks of exposure time) and utilize the online XRT data products tool (Evans et al. 2007, 2009).
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| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=9236 |
| Other links | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ATel.9236....1D/abstract |
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Swift-XRT detects renewed activity of the Galactic center X-ray transient Swift J174535.5-285921
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