Swift/XRT monitoring of the long outburst of the Very Faint X-ray Transient XMMU J174716.1-281048
Abstract
The Very Faint X-ray Transient (VFXT) XMMU J174716.1-281048, discovered in 2003 by XMM-Newton (ATel #147 and Sidoli et al., 2006, A&A 456, 287), is a type I burster (ATel #970; #972; Del Santo et al., 2007, A&A 468, L17) lying in the Galactic Centre region (ATel #1207). XMMU J174716.1-281048 is the first source classified as ``quasi persistent" VFXT, because it is in outburst since 2003 (Del Santo et al., 2007, A&A 468, L17; ATel #1078).
- Publication:
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The Astronomer's Telegram
- Pub Date:
- May 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010ATel.2624....1D
- Keywords:
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- X-ray;
- Binaries;
- Transients