ToO Observations of New Galactic Gamma-ray Transients Discovered with GLAST

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Sep 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008cxo..prop.2558p&link_type=abstract

Chandra proposal ID #10400502

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The EGRET instrument on board CGRO discovered a unique transient event near the Galactic plane. The nature of this gamma-ray transient could never be established, and no clear counterpart at other wavelengths could be identified. The transient appears to represent a currently unknown class of gamma-ray emitting objects in the Galaxy. The GLAST gamma-ray observatory is expected to discover many new transient gamma-ray sources. Here we propose ToO observations of bright gamma-ray transients discovered by GLAST in the Galactic plane that are not associated with known blazars. The Chandra observations will enable us to precisely locate the transients for multi-wavelength follow-up observations, to determine their X-ray to gamma-ray flux ratio, and to measure their X-ray spectrum.

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