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RX J1624.9+7554: A new X-ray transient AGN

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We report the discovery of a new X-ray transient AGN, RX J1624.9+7554. This object appeared to be bright in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey, but had turned off in two pointed observations about one and a half years later. The optical identification spectrum shows a non-emission line spectrum of a spiral galaxy at z=0.064. %We will discuss several hypotheses that can explain the peculiar behaviour of %this object. We will discuss several hypotheses that can explain the peculiar behaviour of this object.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9909101,
  title  = {RX J1624.9+7554: A new X-ray transient AGN},
  author = {D. Grupe and H. -C. Thomas and K. M. Leighly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9909101},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, the paper is also available here: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/~dgrupe/research/refereed.html