A new population of X-ray transients in the Galactic Centre
| dc.creator | Sakano, Masaaki | |
| dc.creator | Warwick, Robert S. | |
| dc.creator | Decourchelle, Anne | |
| dc.creator | Wang, Q. Daniel | |
| dc.date | 2003-10-06 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:10:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:10:01Z | |
| dc.description | A comparison of the XMM-Newton and Chandra Galactic Centre (GC) Surveys has revealed two faint X-ray transients with contrasting properties. The X-ray spectrum of XMM J174544-2913.0 shows a strong iron line with an equivalent width of ~2 keV, whereas that of XMM J174457-2850.3 is characterised by a very hard continuum with photon index ~1.0. The X-ray flux of both sources varied by more than 2 orders of magnitude over a period of months with a peak X-ray luminosity of 5 x 10^34 erg/s. We discuss the nature of these peculiar sources. | |
| dc.description | 2 pages, 2 figures, To appear in "Young Neutron Stars and Their Environments" (IAU Symposium 218, ASP Conference Proceedings), eds F. Camilo and B. M. Gaensler, also found in http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~mas/research/paper/#Sakano2003iau | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310140 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310140 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/6646 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | A new population of X-ray transients in the Galactic Centre | |
| dc.type | text |