ToO observation of a bright Galactic transient discovered by GLAST and Swift

Details ToO observation of a bright Galactic transient discovered by GLAST and Swift ToO observation of a bright Galactic transient discovered by GLAST and Swift

Sep 2008

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Chandra proposal ID #10400238

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We propose a TOO observation of one bright Galactic transient detected by the GLAST large area telescope, and followed by a Swift-XRT detection. Our goal is to determine the nature of an event similar to the intense, non-blazar, transient that EGRET has detected near the Galactic plane once in its lifetime. The lack of a radio-loud blazar counterpart and of a spacially coincident X-ray binary indicates either a new manifestation of a non-blazar active galaxy lying behind the Milky Way, capable of producing massive gamma-ray flares, or a new facet of Galactic compact objects. A significant XRT detection of an X-ray counterpart will trigger the proposed 30 ks Chandra observation to locate precisely this counterpart, to constrain the X-ray decay time, and to measure the source spectrum.

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