Swift-BAT detects a bright hard X-ray outburst from GX 339-4

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006atel..968....1k&link_type=abstract

The Astronomer's Telegram, #968

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

7

X-Ray, Binaries, Black Holes

Scientific paper

The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on the Swift satellite has detected the suspected black hole binary GX 339-4 at its brightest level since the launch of Swift in November 2004. This source was observed in a series of short exposures beginning at 1:03:57 UT on December 18, 2006 and continuing until 21;57:04 December 18. The flux (15-50 keV) during this period varied from a low of 0.034 +/- 0.010 cts/s/cm^2 at the start of the observations, to a peak of 0.053 +/- 0.010 cts/s/cm^2 at 2:40 UTC and the same flux at 20:20 UT.

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