A new population of X-ray transients in the Galactic Centre
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0310140,
title = {A new population of X-ray transients in the Galactic Centre},
author = {Masaaki Sakano and Robert S. Warwick and Anne Decourchelle and Q. Daniel Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0310140},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
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