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|a Corrales, L. R.
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|a MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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|a Baganoff, Frederick K
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|a The Chandra Dust-scattering Halo of Galactic Center Transient Swift J174540.7-290015
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|a 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 the Galactic Center field. We analyze four Chandra images that were taken as follow-up observations to Swift discoveries of new Galactic Center transients. After adjusting our spectral extraction for the effects of detector pile-up, we construct a point-spread function for each observation an d compare it to the GC field before the outburst. We find residual surface brightness around Swift J174540.7-290015, which has a shape and temporal evolution consistent with the behavior expected from X-rays scattered by foreground dust. We examine the spectral properties of the source, which shows evidence that the object transitioned from a soft to hard spectral state as it faded below L X ∼ 10[superscript 36 ]erg s[superscript -1]. This behavior is consistent with the hypothesis that the object is a low-mass X-ray binary in the Galactic Center.
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|a United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Award TM6-17010X)
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|a Chandra X-ray Center (U.S.) (Contract NAS8-03060)
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|a United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Contract NAS8-03060)
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|a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Contract SV2-82023)
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|t The Astrophysical Journal
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