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Discovery of a bright X-ray transient in the Galactic Center with XMM-Newton | D. Porquet
; N. Grosso
; V. Burwitz
; I. L. Andronov
; B. Aschenbach
; P. Predehl
; R.S. Warwick
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6 Dec 2004 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | MPE, Germany), N. Grosso (LAOG, France), V. Burwitz (MPE), I. L. Andronov (Odessa/Crimean, Ukraine), B. Aschenbach (MPE), P. Predehl (MPE), R.S. Warwick (Leicester, UK | Abstract: | We report the discovery of a bright X-ray transient object, XMMU J174554.4-285456, observed in outburst with XMM-Newton on October 3, 2002,and located at 6.3’ from SgrA*, the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center.This object exhibits a very large X-ray luminosity variability of a factor of about 1300 between two X-ray observations separated by four months. The X-ray spectrum is best fitted by a power-law with a photon index of 1.6+/-0.2 and absorption column density of 14.1 (+1.6,-1.4) x 10^22 cm^-2. This large absorption suggests this source is located at the distance of the Galactic center, i.e., 8 kpc. The 2-10 keV luminosity is about 1.0 x 10^35(d/8kpc)^2 erg/s. A pulsation period of about 172 s is hinted by the timing analysis. The X-ray properties strongly suggest a binary system with either a black hole or a neutron star for the compact object. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0412116 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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