The XMM-Newton/Chandra monitoring campaign of the Galactic center region. Description of the program and preliminary results

The XMM-Newton/Chandra monitoring campaign of the Galactic center region. Description of the program and preliminary results

We present the first results of our X-ray monitoring campaign on a 1.7 square degree region centered on Sgr A* using the satellites XMM-Newton and Chandra. The purpose of this campaign is to monitor the behavior (below 10 keV) of X-ray sources (both persistent and transient) which are too faint to b...

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Main Authors: Wijnands, R., in't Zand, J., Rupen, M., Maccarone, T., Homan, J., Cornelisse, R., Fender, R., Grindlay, J., van der Klis, M., Kuulkers, E., Markwardt, C., Miller-Jones, James, Wang, Q.
Format: Journal Article
Published: EDP Sciences 2006
Subjects:
accretion
accretion disks
X-rays: binaries
binaries: close
Online Access:http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=com_article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/full/2006/15/aa4129-05/aa4129-05.html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17283

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