AEGIS_1862_24: Relic Jets from a Stellar Mass Galactic Object
Abstract
We request a single XMM-Newton observation of a recently discovered Galactic system with possible large scale relic jets. The optical spectrum of this source is consistent with accretion disc emission from a binary system. Two extended non-thermal optical sources are symmetrically located 3.4 either side of the central object, consistent with relic jet lobes. Faint X-ray emission was detected from this source with Swift, consistent with a quiescent low mass X-ray binary or an intermediate polar. Relic jets from X-ray binaries are extremely rare, and such large scale jets from an intermediate polar have never been seen before. Through this observation we aim to determine the nature of this object by constraining the X-ray spectral and timing properties of the central source.
- Publication:
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XMM-Newton Proposal
- Pub Date:
- October 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012xmm..prop..117F
- Keywords:
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- White Dwarf Binaries;
- Neutron Star Binaries;
- Cataclysmic Variables;
- ULXs;
- Black Holes;
- AEGIS_1862_24