A four-year XMM-Newton/Chandra monitoring campaign of the Galactic centre: analysing the X-ray transients
@article{Degenaar2012AFX, title={A four-year XMM-Newton/Chandra monitoring campaign of the Galactic centre: analysing the X-ray transients}, author={N. Degenaar and R. Wijnands and E. Cackett and J. Homan and J. I. Zand and E. Kuulkers and T. Maccarone and M. V. D. Klis}, journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics}, year={2012}, volume={545} }
We report on the results of a four-year long X-ray monitoring campaign of the central 1.2 square degrees of our Galaxy, performed with Chandra and XMM-Newton between 2005 and 2008. Our study focuses on the properties of transient X-ray sources that reach 2–10 keV luminosities of LX 10 34 erg s −1 for an assumed distance of 8 kpc. There are 17 known X-ray transients within the field of view of our campaign, eight of which were detected in outburst during our observations: the transient neutron… CONTINUE READING
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