2020•UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)Open access

Swift/XRT detects (continued) activity of the Galactic center transient AX J1745.6-2901

Nathalie Degenaar, Rudy A. D. Wijnands, Mark T. Reynolds, Jon M. Miller, J. A. Kennea

Abstract

Our daily Swift/XRT monitoring observations of the Galactic center (Degenaar et al. 2015, JHEAp, 7, 137) resumed on 2020 February 4. In the 0.8 ks exposure (obsID 00095329187), the transient eclipsing and bursting neutron star low-mass X-ray binary AX J1745.6-2901 is clearly detected.

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Key concepts: Galactic Center, Swift, Neutron star, Transient (computer programming), Physics, Astrophysics, Center (category theory), Computer science