The Chandra Dust-scattering Halo of Galactic Center Transient Swift J174540.7-290015

The Chandra Dust-scattering Halo of Galactic Center Transient Swift J174540.7-290015

We report the detection of a dust-scattering halo around a recently discovered X-ray transient, Swift J174540.7-290015, which in early 2016 February underwent one of the brightest outbursts (F X ≈ 5 × 10[superscript -10] erg cm[superscript -2] s[superscript -1] ) observed from a compact object in th...

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Main Authors: Corrales, L. R. (Author), Mon, B. (Author), Haggard, D. (Author), Garmire, G. (Author), Degenaar, N. (Author), Reynolds, M. (Author), Baganoff, Frederick K (Contributor)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2017-11-20T16:26:43Z.
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