AEGIS_1862_24: Relic Jets from a Stellar Mass Galactic Object
Abstract
We request simultaneous XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations 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 3.8 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 a white dwarf 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 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013xmm..prop..117F
- Keywords:
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- White Dwarf Binaries;
- Neutron Star Binaries;
- Cataclysmic Variables;
- ULXs;
- Black Holes;
- AEGIS_1862_24